My list
I have a list of folks I know,
All written in a book;
And every year at Christmas time,
I go and take a look.
And that is when I realize,
That these names are a part,
Not of the book they're written in,
But of my very heart.
For each name stands for someone
Who has touched my life sometime;
And in that meeting they've become,
The "Rhythm in each Rhyme."
And while it sounds fantastic
For me to make this claim,
I really feel I am composed,
Of each remembered name.
And while you may not be aware
Of any special link,
Just meeting you has shaped my life
A lot more than you think.
For once that you have known someone,
The years cannot erase,
The memory of a pleasant word,
Or of a friendly face.
So never think my Christmas cards
Are just a mere routine,
Of the names upon a list,
Forgotten in between.
For when I send a Christmas card
That is addressed to you,
It is because you're on that list,
Of folks I'm indebted to.
And whether I have known you
For many years or few,
In some way you have had a part
In shaping things I do.
So every year when Christmas comes,
I realize anew ...
One of the biggest gifts that God can give Is knowing folks like you!
~ Helen Steiner Rice ~ Christmas 1949
Happiness
Happiness
Every day, as we seek happiness, the world seduces us with a ceaseless barrage of things and people we can possess. It gives us plenty of compelling reasons why we should have them. It could be a new car, a new loud suit or even a new wife.
But if our happiness depends on our possessions, then we are destined to spend our lives chasing after an illusion.
A thirsty poet was walking in the woods one night when he came upon a well with a bucket and an attached rope. He looked into the well and the vision that met his eyes made his heart stop momentarily. Although a man accustomed to waxing lyrical about almost anything, he found no words to describe the beauty of the tranquil, perfectly round object, shimmering with ivory light at the bottom of the well.
Determined that such a dazzling thing should be his, he lowered the bucket into the well and tried to "catch" the object. The instant the bucket touched the water, the thing of beauty began to waver and distort. The poet brought up several buckets full of water, but the object remained at the bottom of the well. After the ripples had settled, it seemed to mock him with its serenity and inertia.
Undeterred, the poet labored the entire night until finally, he had emptied the well. He looked down and was shocked to see that the vision of beauty was no longer there! Worn out and distraught, he fell on his back, bemoaning his "loss". At that moment, he saw the fading moon in the sky, making way for the morning sun, and finally understood his folly.
Like the poet in the story, many of us spend our lives attempting to possess the objects of our desires. We try vainly to "scoop up the moon", not realizing that it's merely a reflection we see. We assume falsely that what we want is right there in the water. We think that we can bring it up to us, and when we do, we will be happy.
Eventually, we look around and realize that we had wasted our time and energy on artificial and inconstant things. We had squandered the water that would have relieved our thirst. We look up and realize that the actual moon was in the sky all along. Its beauty was something that anyone could savor without effort or price, but that no one could own or control, no matter how hard one tried.
Trying to find happiness in possessing people or things will ultimately bring us heartache, frustration and regret. It is in realizing that although we cannot possess the moon, we can still behold its beauty, that we find lasting fulfillment and mental tranquility.
To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
Every day, as we seek happiness, the world seduces us with a ceaseless barrage of things and people we can possess. It gives us plenty of compelling reasons why we should have them. It could be a new car, a new loud suit or even a new wife.
But if our happiness depends on our possessions, then we are destined to spend our lives chasing after an illusion.
A thirsty poet was walking in the woods one night when he came upon a well with a bucket and an attached rope. He looked into the well and the vision that met his eyes made his heart stop momentarily. Although a man accustomed to waxing lyrical about almost anything, he found no words to describe the beauty of the tranquil, perfectly round object, shimmering with ivory light at the bottom of the well.
Determined that such a dazzling thing should be his, he lowered the bucket into the well and tried to "catch" the object. The instant the bucket touched the water, the thing of beauty began to waver and distort. The poet brought up several buckets full of water, but the object remained at the bottom of the well. After the ripples had settled, it seemed to mock him with its serenity and inertia.
Undeterred, the poet labored the entire night until finally, he had emptied the well. He looked down and was shocked to see that the vision of beauty was no longer there! Worn out and distraught, he fell on his back, bemoaning his "loss". At that moment, he saw the fading moon in the sky, making way for the morning sun, and finally understood his folly.
Like the poet in the story, many of us spend our lives attempting to possess the objects of our desires. We try vainly to "scoop up the moon", not realizing that it's merely a reflection we see. We assume falsely that what we want is right there in the water. We think that we can bring it up to us, and when we do, we will be happy.
Eventually, we look around and realize that we had wasted our time and energy on artificial and inconstant things. We had squandered the water that would have relieved our thirst. We look up and realize that the actual moon was in the sky all along. Its beauty was something that anyone could savor without effort or price, but that no one could own or control, no matter how hard one tried.
Trying to find happiness in possessing people or things will ultimately bring us heartache, frustration and regret. It is in realizing that although we cannot possess the moon, we can still behold its beauty, that we find lasting fulfillment and mental tranquility.
To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
Inspirational Customer Service Quotes and Quotations
Inspirational Customer Service Quotes and Quotations
Your words can make someone go the extra mile.
Unknown
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The customer experience is the next competitive battleground.
Jerry Gregoire, CIO, Dell Computers
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You'll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can't be copied.
Jerry Fritz
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There are only two ways to get a new customer:
1. solicit a new customer any way you can.
2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.
Ed Zeitz
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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Charles Fillmore
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The customer is why you go to work. If they go away, you do, too.
David Haverford
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Peter F. Drucker
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Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.
Abdu'l Baha
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Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.
Scott Allen
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In the world of internet customer service, it is inportant to remember your competitor is only a mouse click away.
Doug Warner
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Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
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Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution.
Rick Tate
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other.
Jim Cathart
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I don't do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
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Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
Gucci Family Slogan
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
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The Customer is King.
Unknown
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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
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Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
Peter F. Drucker
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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
Walt Disney
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If we don’t take care of our customers, someone else will.
Unknown
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify!
Henry David Thoreau
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If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
Jeff Bezos
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Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Donald Porter
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Give trust, and you'll get it double in return
Kees Kamies
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The quality of our work depends on the quality of our people.
Unknown
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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carol
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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
Sam Walton
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The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding customer service.
William H. Davidow
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
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Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.
Tony Alessandra
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Our greatest asset is the customer! Treat each customer as if they are the only one!
Laurice Leito
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People expect good service but few are willing to give it.
Robert Gately
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Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
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To my customer.I may not have the answer, but I’ll find it.I may not have the time, but I’ll make it.
Unknown
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Here is a simple but powerful rule - always give people more than what they expect to get.
Nelson Boswell
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In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
Alice Macdougall
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You’ll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can’t be copied.
Jerry Fritz
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Good service is to spoil the customer, to make them highly difficult, demanding & unreasonable, and they will then become highly dependent on us.
Dick Ng
Your words can make someone go the extra mile.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The customer experience is the next competitive battleground.
Jerry Gregoire, CIO, Dell Computers
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You'll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can't be copied.
Jerry Fritz
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are only two ways to get a new customer:
1. solicit a new customer any way you can.
2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.
Ed Zeitz
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Charles Fillmore
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The customer is why you go to work. If they go away, you do, too.
David Haverford
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Peter F. Drucker
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.
Abdu'l Baha
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.
Scott Allen
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the world of internet customer service, it is inportant to remember your competitor is only a mouse click away.
Doug Warner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution.
Rick Tate
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other.
Jim Cathart
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
Gucci Family Slogan
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Customer is King.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
Peter F. Drucker
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
Walt Disney
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If we don’t take care of our customers, someone else will.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify!
Henry David Thoreau
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
Jeff Bezos
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Donald Porter
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Give trust, and you'll get it double in return
Kees Kamies
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The quality of our work depends on the quality of our people.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carol
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
Sam Walton
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding customer service.
William H. Davidow
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.
Tony Alessandra
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our greatest asset is the customer! Treat each customer as if they are the only one!
Laurice Leito
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
People expect good service but few are willing to give it.
Robert Gately
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To my customer.I may not have the answer, but I’ll find it.I may not have the time, but I’ll make it.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is a simple but powerful rule - always give people more than what they expect to get.
Nelson Boswell
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
Alice Macdougall
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You’ll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can’t be copied.
Jerry Fritz
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Good service is to spoil the customer, to make them highly difficult, demanding & unreasonable, and they will then become highly dependent on us.
Dick Ng
Love and Peace
Love and Peace
Discouragement is a poisonous swamp where life's most beautiful hopes are suffocated.
Hastiness becomes a fire to burn without purpose, often damaging the good work. Systematic fear forms a field where weeds grow and destroy the seedlings of hope.
Slander breeds uncountable wrongdoing.
Laziness weaves the destruction of labor as much as ill will inspires foolishness.
Violence is discussed with the exaggerated co-operation of the modern vehicles of informatics, stimulating sick minds and psychopathic personalities to surrender to hallucinations.
The therapy for the terrible disease that dominates the world is love in all its forms. Fraternal love that supports friendship and disseminates hope.
Spiritual love that spreads everyone's interests in communal well being. Christian love in active service that develops good work and spreads solidarity.
Love that understands mistakes is a copy of the love that re-educates, in the same manner that forgiving love promotes the love that redeems.
Discouragement, hastiness, fear, slander and laziness are forms of cruel violence and the bastard sons of selfishness which is in itself the author of the evils which misrule the world.
Contribute to orderliness and peace, using the verb to be happy. Speaking to help, spreading moral comfort and guidance for equilibrium. Use thought, protecting yourself against, pessimism, giving off mental waves of sympathy, praying in silence. Carrying out good works, even with simple gifts such as shedding some light in the darkness, a glass of cold water for the scaring thirst, a piece of bread proffered to the famished, a grain full of life in a fertile trough looking at the future ...
Each person can offer his best part, giving the most important share, which in plain and simple words is love.
In all events, notwithstanding that He could change the structures of His time and solve the problems of those who sought Him, Jesus, for love's sake helped each creature that came to Him, aiding them to change their attitude to life and thrive in goodness, and to proceed in peace in the direction of God, Who is Total Love.
Joanna de Angelis
Extract from the Book Recipes for Peace – Divaldo Pereira Franco (medium).
Discouragement is a poisonous swamp where life's most beautiful hopes are suffocated.
Hastiness becomes a fire to burn without purpose, often damaging the good work. Systematic fear forms a field where weeds grow and destroy the seedlings of hope.
Slander breeds uncountable wrongdoing.
Laziness weaves the destruction of labor as much as ill will inspires foolishness.
Violence is discussed with the exaggerated co-operation of the modern vehicles of informatics, stimulating sick minds and psychopathic personalities to surrender to hallucinations.
The therapy for the terrible disease that dominates the world is love in all its forms. Fraternal love that supports friendship and disseminates hope.
Spiritual love that spreads everyone's interests in communal well being. Christian love in active service that develops good work and spreads solidarity.
Love that understands mistakes is a copy of the love that re-educates, in the same manner that forgiving love promotes the love that redeems.
Discouragement, hastiness, fear, slander and laziness are forms of cruel violence and the bastard sons of selfishness which is in itself the author of the evils which misrule the world.
Contribute to orderliness and peace, using the verb to be happy. Speaking to help, spreading moral comfort and guidance for equilibrium. Use thought, protecting yourself against, pessimism, giving off mental waves of sympathy, praying in silence. Carrying out good works, even with simple gifts such as shedding some light in the darkness, a glass of cold water for the scaring thirst, a piece of bread proffered to the famished, a grain full of life in a fertile trough looking at the future ...
Each person can offer his best part, giving the most important share, which in plain and simple words is love.
In all events, notwithstanding that He could change the structures of His time and solve the problems of those who sought Him, Jesus, for love's sake helped each creature that came to Him, aiding them to change their attitude to life and thrive in goodness, and to proceed in peace in the direction of God, Who is Total Love.
Joanna de Angelis
Extract from the Book Recipes for Peace – Divaldo Pereira Franco (medium).
See God
See God
One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy:
TEACHER: Tommy do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes
TEACHER: Do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky.
TOMMY: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.
TEACHER: Did you see God?
TOMMY: No.
TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see God because He isn't there. He doesn't exist.
A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions. The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy:
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy, do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yessssss (getting tired of the questions by this time).
LITTLE GIRL: Did you see the sky?
TOMMY: Yessssss
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see the teacher?
TOMMY: Yes
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see her brain?
TOMMY: No
LITTLE GIRL: Then according to what we were taught today in school she must not have one
"FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT"
- Author Unknown
One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy:
TEACHER: Tommy do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes
TEACHER: Do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky.
TOMMY: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.
TEACHER: Did you see God?
TOMMY: No.
TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see God because He isn't there. He doesn't exist.
A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions. The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy:
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy, do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yessssss (getting tired of the questions by this time).
LITTLE GIRL: Did you see the sky?
TOMMY: Yessssss
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see the teacher?
TOMMY: Yes
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see her brain?
TOMMY: No
LITTLE GIRL: Then according to what we were taught today in school she must not have one
"FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT"
- Author Unknown
Why It Is So Hard To Let Go
Why It Is So Hard To Let Go
The cheerful girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them: a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box.
"Oh please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?" Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl's upturned face. "A dollar ninety-five. That's almost $2.00. If you really want them, I'll think of some extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for yourself. Your birthday's only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma."
As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17 pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents.
On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at last she had enough money to buy the necklace.
Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up. She wore them everywhere - Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath. Mother said if they got wet, they might turn her neck green.
Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story. One night when he finished the story, he asked Jenny, "Do you love me?" "Oh yes, Daddy. You know that I love you." "Then give me your pearls." "Oh, Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have Princess - the white horse from my collection. The one with the pink tail. Remember, Daddy? The one you gave me. She's my favorite." "That's okay, Honey. Daddy loves you. Good night." And he brushed her cheek with a kiss.
About a week later, after the story time, Jenny's daddy asked again, "Do you love me?" "Daddy, you know I love you." "Then give me your pearls." "Oh Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got for my birthday. She is so beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that matches her sleeper." "That's okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one. Daddy loves you" And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss.
A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed Indian-style. As he came close, he noticed her chin was trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek. "What is it, Jenny? What's the matter?" Jenny didn't say anything but lifted her little hand up to her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace. With a little quiver, she finally said, "Here, Daddy. It's for you."
With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny's kind daddy reached out with one hand to take the dime-store necklace, and with the other hand he reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and gave them to Jenny. He had them all the time. He was just waiting for her to give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her genuine treasure.
So it is with our Heavenly Father. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasure. Isn't God good?
Are you holding onto things which God wants you to let go of. Are you holding on to harmful or unnecessary partners, relationships, habits and activities which you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe this one thing.............
God will never take away something without giving you something better in ....
-Author Unknown
The cheerful girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them: a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box.
"Oh please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?" Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl's upturned face. "A dollar ninety-five. That's almost $2.00. If you really want them, I'll think of some extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for yourself. Your birthday's only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma."
As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17 pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents.
On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at last she had enough money to buy the necklace.
Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up. She wore them everywhere - Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath. Mother said if they got wet, they might turn her neck green.
Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story. One night when he finished the story, he asked Jenny, "Do you love me?" "Oh yes, Daddy. You know that I love you." "Then give me your pearls." "Oh, Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have Princess - the white horse from my collection. The one with the pink tail. Remember, Daddy? The one you gave me. She's my favorite." "That's okay, Honey. Daddy loves you. Good night." And he brushed her cheek with a kiss.
About a week later, after the story time, Jenny's daddy asked again, "Do you love me?" "Daddy, you know I love you." "Then give me your pearls." "Oh Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got for my birthday. She is so beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that matches her sleeper." "That's okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one. Daddy loves you" And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss.
A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed Indian-style. As he came close, he noticed her chin was trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek. "What is it, Jenny? What's the matter?" Jenny didn't say anything but lifted her little hand up to her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace. With a little quiver, she finally said, "Here, Daddy. It's for you."
With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny's kind daddy reached out with one hand to take the dime-store necklace, and with the other hand he reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and gave them to Jenny. He had them all the time. He was just waiting for her to give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her genuine treasure.
So it is with our Heavenly Father. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasure. Isn't God good?
Are you holding onto things which God wants you to let go of. Are you holding on to harmful or unnecessary partners, relationships, habits and activities which you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe this one thing.............
God will never take away something without giving you something better in ....
-Author Unknown
Hey You
Hey You
Madonna
Hey you
Don't you give up
It's not so bad
There's still a chance for us
Hey you
Just be yourself
Don't be so shy
There's reasons why it's hard
Keep it together
You'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Would envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
Hey you
Open your heart
It's not so strange
You got to change this time
Hey you
Remember this
None of it's real
Including the way you feel
Keep it together
We'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Would envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
Save your soul
Little sister
Save your soul
Little brother
Hey you
Save yourself
Don't rely on anyone else
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you can save someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first
Hey you
There are on the fence
You got a choice
One day it will make sense
Hey you
First love yourself
Or if you can't
Try to love someone else
Keep it together
We'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Will envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first
Madonna
Hey you
Don't you give up
It's not so bad
There's still a chance for us
Hey you
Just be yourself
Don't be so shy
There's reasons why it's hard
Keep it together
You'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Would envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
Hey you
Open your heart
It's not so strange
You got to change this time
Hey you
Remember this
None of it's real
Including the way you feel
Keep it together
We'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Would envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
Save your soul
Little sister
Save your soul
Little brother
Hey you
Save yourself
Don't rely on anyone else
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you can save someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first
Hey you
There are on the fence
You got a choice
One day it will make sense
Hey you
First love yourself
Or if you can't
Try to love someone else
Keep it together
We'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Will envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first
Best Anne Frank Quotes and Quotations
Best Anne Frank Quotes and Quotations
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
Anne Frank
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
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Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
Anne Frank
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
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Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank
Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes
Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes
How do you deal with your past mistakes?
Today, I'd like to recommend a great way to burden your mind, waste time, and lower your self-esteem.
It's called Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes.
Try it out on yourself and people you dislike! It's very easy to do, and anyone can do it. It’s great for injecting endless hours of frustration and stress into your life!
I've known many people who do this very well, but just in case you're having some difficulty, here are some pointers to send you on your way?
First, think of all the things you did or failed to do in the past.Especially, things which you cannot do anything about it now. Constantly remind yourself of them and beat yourself up for them.
A good way to do this is to keep whining about them. If you can regularly complain to others, it is even better! Remember to sigh a lot too. There's nothing like constant verbal repetition for these past mistakes to really stick.
Then, tell yourself that you'll never be able to adjust your behavior to prevent similar errors in future. Learning from mistakes just never crossed your mind. Remember, self-improvement is a myth.
This kind of thinking will start a vicious cycle. Remembering how incapable, unlovable, and foolish you are will enable you to continue repeating past mistakes. Now this part is essential in order for the entire self-loathing process to work.
In no time, you'll be able to whittle your self-esteem down to such a degree that you will have no problem thinking you're absolutely incapable of success and happiness. The strategy is laughably simple: reinforce negative thoughts and experiences and they will inevitably lead to negative feelings and outcomes.
Remember, you are not special, you are not unique. The world simply doesn't need another loser like you. If you're doing everything right, by this time, you would have lost most of your friends, alienated your family members, lost your appetite for food and life, and are looking forward to a lonely, meaningless existence.
So, if you're ever bored, and need to kill some time, depress your spirit and embrace failure as lord of your life, try condemning yourself for past mistakes. Have fun!
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran
How do you deal with your past mistakes?
Today, I'd like to recommend a great way to burden your mind, waste time, and lower your self-esteem.
It's called Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes.
Try it out on yourself and people you dislike! It's very easy to do, and anyone can do it. It’s great for injecting endless hours of frustration and stress into your life!
I've known many people who do this very well, but just in case you're having some difficulty, here are some pointers to send you on your way?
First, think of all the things you did or failed to do in the past.Especially, things which you cannot do anything about it now. Constantly remind yourself of them and beat yourself up for them.
A good way to do this is to keep whining about them. If you can regularly complain to others, it is even better! Remember to sigh a lot too. There's nothing like constant verbal repetition for these past mistakes to really stick.
Then, tell yourself that you'll never be able to adjust your behavior to prevent similar errors in future. Learning from mistakes just never crossed your mind. Remember, self-improvement is a myth.
This kind of thinking will start a vicious cycle. Remembering how incapable, unlovable, and foolish you are will enable you to continue repeating past mistakes. Now this part is essential in order for the entire self-loathing process to work.
In no time, you'll be able to whittle your self-esteem down to such a degree that you will have no problem thinking you're absolutely incapable of success and happiness. The strategy is laughably simple: reinforce negative thoughts and experiences and they will inevitably lead to negative feelings and outcomes.
Remember, you are not special, you are not unique. The world simply doesn't need another loser like you. If you're doing everything right, by this time, you would have lost most of your friends, alienated your family members, lost your appetite for food and life, and are looking forward to a lonely, meaningless existence.
So, if you're ever bored, and need to kill some time, depress your spirit and embrace failure as lord of your life, try condemning yourself for past mistakes. Have fun!
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran
My Christmas Wish
My Christmas Wish
If I could have
a Christmas wish come true,
I would wish for
wonderful things to come to you.
I wish you happiness
in everything you do,
And not many worries
or problems will come to you.
I wish you hope
that can brighten the cloudiest day,
And strength to accept
all that life sends your way.
May you rise each day
with sunlight in your heart,
And may all your hopes and dreams
never fall apart.
With my warmest thoughts
and memories of you,
I wish that all your joys and wishes
will come true.
When these special wishes
are delivered to your door,
There is no doubt they will be
accompanied by many more.
Of all the Christmas wishes
delivered to you yearly,
There couldn't be another
that's wished more warmly or sincerely.
~ Author Unknown ~
If I could have
a Christmas wish come true,
I would wish for
wonderful things to come to you.
I wish you happiness
in everything you do,
And not many worries
or problems will come to you.
I wish you hope
that can brighten the cloudiest day,
And strength to accept
all that life sends your way.
May you rise each day
with sunlight in your heart,
And may all your hopes and dreams
never fall apart.
With my warmest thoughts
and memories of you,
I wish that all your joys and wishes
will come true.
When these special wishes
are delivered to your door,
There is no doubt they will be
accompanied by many more.
Of all the Christmas wishes
delivered to you yearly,
There couldn't be another
that's wished more warmly or sincerely.
~ Author Unknown ~
Positive Quotes and Quotations
Positive Quotes and Quotations
"Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger."
Christian D Larsen
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I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
Elizabeth T. King
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The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Unknown
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
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Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson
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For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berke Breathed
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Clarence Day
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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverb
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
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Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Unknown
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Chinese Proverb.
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.
Terry Josephson
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
Harvey B Mackay
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson
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You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.
Unknown
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch
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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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What worries you masters you.
Haddon W. Robinson
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Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances I let slip by, And which never returned again. It fills me with gloom when I ponder this, Till I look on the other side. How I might have been completely engulfed by misfortune's surging tide.
G.J. Russell
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
Jim Evans
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Agnes Turnbull
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Every moment you are happy is a gift to the rest of the world.
Harry Palmer
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger."
Christian D Larsen
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
Elizabeth T. King
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berke Breathed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Clarence Day
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverb
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Chinese Proverb.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.
Terry Josephson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
Harvey B Mackay
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What worries you masters you.
Haddon W. Robinson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances I let slip by, And which never returned again. It fills me with gloom when I ponder this, Till I look on the other side. How I might have been completely engulfed by misfortune's surging tide.
G.J. Russell
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
Jim Evans
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Agnes Turnbull
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Every moment you are happy is a gift to the rest of the world.
Harry Palmer
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Mark Twain Quotes and Quotations
Best Mark Twain Quotes and Quotations
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
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Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
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Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain
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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
Mark Twain
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
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When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.
Mark Twain
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.
Mark Twain
Twenty Dollars
Twenty Dollars
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air."My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.You are special - don't ever forget it."
-Author Unknown
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air."My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.You are special - don't ever forget it."
-Author Unknown
Top Famous Quotes and Quotations By Famous People
Top Famous Quotes and Quotations By Famous People
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Jean Paul Getty
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
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Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
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Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
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At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.
Patrick Moore
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
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God helps them that help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
Rudyard Kipling
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Jean Paul Getty
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
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Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
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Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
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At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.
Patrick Moore
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
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God helps them that help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
Rudyard Kipling
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Team Quotes and Quotations
Team Quotes and Quotations
I challenge you to think of one act of genuine significance in the history of humankind that was performed by a lone human being (apart from the redemptive work of Christ on the cross). No matter what you name, you will find that a team of people was involved.
John C. Maxwell
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Teamwork is neither 'good' nor 'desirable'. It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
Peter Drucker
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TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
Unknown
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We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Roman emperor)
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
Preston Bradley
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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.
John Rollwagen
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The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.
John Maxwell
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Many hands make light work.
John Heywood
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It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
Unknown
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There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK".
Unknown
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Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
Unknown
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Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Unknown
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
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The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Unknown
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Teamwork is working together — even when apart.
Unknown
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None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
Vince Lombardi
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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
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The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet, Coach, Bengals
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi
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Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC
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We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants
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Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Stephen Covey
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Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team.
Buchholz and Roth
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
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It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.
Unknown
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There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer
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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
B. Dodge
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No one person can accomplish much if they don’t work with others.
Daniel Levinson
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Coaches and teammates support me. No one can do things alone.
Pelé
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No manager is an island.
William Oncken, Jr.
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You don't get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
Lou Gehrig
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It takes two hands to clap.
Jiang Zemin
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Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you'll never forget your teammates.
Deborah Miller Palmore
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Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Norman R. Augustine
I challenge you to think of one act of genuine significance in the history of humankind that was performed by a lone human being (apart from the redemptive work of Christ on the cross). No matter what you name, you will find that a team of people was involved.
John C. Maxwell
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Teamwork is neither 'good' nor 'desirable'. It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
Peter Drucker
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TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
Unknown
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We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Roman emperor)
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
Preston Bradley
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.
John Rollwagen
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.
John Maxwell
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Many hands make light work.
John Heywood
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It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
Unknown
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There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK".
Unknown
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Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Unknown
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
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The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Unknown
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Teamwork is working together — even when apart.
Unknown
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None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
Vince Lombardi
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet, Coach, Bengals
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi
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Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC
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We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants
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Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Stephen Covey
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Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team.
Buchholz and Roth
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
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It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.
Unknown
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There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer
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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
B. Dodge
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No one person can accomplish much if they don’t work with others.
Daniel Levinson
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Coaches and teammates support me. No one can do things alone.
Pelé
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No manager is an island.
William Oncken, Jr.
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You don't get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
Lou Gehrig
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It takes two hands to clap.
Jiang Zemin
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Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you'll never forget your teammates.
Deborah Miller Palmore
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Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Norman R. Augustine
Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations
Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
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Joy is not in things! It is in us!
Benjamin Franklin
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Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the oven.
Benjamin Franklin
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
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God heals and the Doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable
Benjamin Franklin
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Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
Benjamin Franklin
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A man is not completely born until he is dead.
Benjamin Franklin
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A penny saved is a penny earned
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
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Joy is not in things! It is in us!
Benjamin Franklin
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Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the oven.
Benjamin Franklin
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
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God heals and the Doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable
Benjamin Franklin
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Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
Benjamin Franklin
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A man is not completely born until he is dead.
Benjamin Franklin
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A penny saved is a penny earned
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac
Best Coretta Scott King Quotes and Quotations
Best Coretta Scott King Quotes and Quotations
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Coretta Scott King
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott King
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Coretta Scott King
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott King
Only If I Try
Only If I Try
Sometimes, only if I try, that is the only way I can know if it can be done or not.
There was a young man named Kimana. He wanted to marry the Sky Maiden. He wrote a letter to her father, the Sun Chief. Kimana went to Rabbit. "Will you take this letter?"
Rabbit said, "I cannot go to Heaven." Kimana went to Antelope. "Will you take this letter?" Antelope said, "I cannot go to Heaven." Kimana went to Hawk. "Will you take this letter?" Hawk said, "I can go halfway. But I cannot go to Heaven." Then Frog came to Kimana. "Why do you not take the letter yourself?" Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will take it for you." Kimana laughed. "Can a frog take a letter to Heaven?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try."
Now, Frog lived by a well. Every day, the girls who served the Sun Chief came to this well. They climbed down from Heaven on a web made by Spider. Then they filled their water jugs and went home. Frog put the letter in his mouth and hid in the well. The girls from Heaven came for water, singing their song.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped into one. The girls did not see. Then the girls climbed back up the web of Spider. They went into the house of the Sun Chief and left the jugs in a room.
Frog was alone. He jumped out of the jug and spit the letter out on a bench. Then he hid in a corner. The Sun Chief came for a drink of water. He saw the letter and opened it.
He read,"I, Kimana, a man of earth, wish to marry the Sky Maiden, your daughter." The Sun Chief said, "How can this be?" He went to the girls who fetched water. "Did you bring this letter?" The girls said, "We did not." He went to his wife, the Moon Lady, and read it to her. "What should we do?" The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "Let us see if he can bring a wedding gift."
So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and set it on the bench. Then he went away. Frog came out and put the letter in his mouth. Then he climbed into an empty jug.
The next day, the girls took the jugs and climbed down to earth, singing their song.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped out. The girls did not see.Then the girls went back to Heaven.
Frog took the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it. "You may marry my daughter if you bring a purse of money." Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will bring it for you." Kimana laughed. "You took a letter to Heaven. But can you bring a purse of money?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try." Kimana gave Frog a purse of money. Frog took hold of it with his mouth and carried it to the well. He climbed in and waited. The girls from Heaven came to the well.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
Frog got into one of the jugs. The girls returned to Heaven and left him in the room. Frog set the money on the bench. Then he hid.
The Sun Chief came and found the purse.
"How can this be?" He went to the girls. "Did you bring this money?" The girls said, "We did not." He went to his wife. The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "Let us see if he can come fetch me." So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and left it on the bench. Frog put the letter in his mouth and climbed into an empty jug. The next day, the girls carried him to earth.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
He jumped back into the well, and the girls went back to Heaven. Frog brought the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it.
"You may marry my daughter if you come and fetch her." Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will fetch her for you." Kimana laughed. "You took a letter to Heaven. You brought a purse of money. But can you fetch a bride?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try." Frog climbed back into the well. The girls came with their jugs.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They carried him to Heaven. Frog jumped out. He spit in all the jugs of water. Ptui. Ptui. Ptui. Then he hid in an empty jug. The people of the house came and drank the water. They all got sick.
The Sun Chief called for the spirit doctor. The doctor told him, "You promised your daughter to a man of earth, but she has not gone. He has sent an evil spirit with a sickness. The evil spirit is in the shape of a frog."
The Sun Chief went to his wife. The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "I will go." The next day, the Sky Maiden went with the girls down to the well.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
The girls filled their jugs, and Frog jumped out. Then the girls left the Sky Maiden and went home.
Frog jumped out of the well. "I will lead you to your husband." The Sky Maiden laughed. "Can a frog lead a woman?" Frog said, "I took a letter to Heaven. I brought a purse of money. I fetched a bride. Whatever it was, I could do it. But only if I try."
The Sky Maiden said, "Then it is you I will marry." She took Frog back to Heaven and married him. They lived on and on. And Kimana is still waiting for his bride.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
Sometimes, only if I try, that is the only way I can know if it can be done or not.
There was a young man named Kimana. He wanted to marry the Sky Maiden. He wrote a letter to her father, the Sun Chief. Kimana went to Rabbit. "Will you take this letter?"
Rabbit said, "I cannot go to Heaven." Kimana went to Antelope. "Will you take this letter?" Antelope said, "I cannot go to Heaven." Kimana went to Hawk. "Will you take this letter?" Hawk said, "I can go halfway. But I cannot go to Heaven." Then Frog came to Kimana. "Why do you not take the letter yourself?" Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will take it for you." Kimana laughed. "Can a frog take a letter to Heaven?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try."
Now, Frog lived by a well. Every day, the girls who served the Sun Chief came to this well. They climbed down from Heaven on a web made by Spider. Then they filled their water jugs and went home. Frog put the letter in his mouth and hid in the well. The girls from Heaven came for water, singing their song.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped into one. The girls did not see. Then the girls climbed back up the web of Spider. They went into the house of the Sun Chief and left the jugs in a room.
Frog was alone. He jumped out of the jug and spit the letter out on a bench. Then he hid in a corner. The Sun Chief came for a drink of water. He saw the letter and opened it.
He read,"I, Kimana, a man of earth, wish to marry the Sky Maiden, your daughter." The Sun Chief said, "How can this be?" He went to the girls who fetched water. "Did you bring this letter?" The girls said, "We did not." He went to his wife, the Moon Lady, and read it to her. "What should we do?" The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "Let us see if he can bring a wedding gift."
So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and set it on the bench. Then he went away. Frog came out and put the letter in his mouth. Then he climbed into an empty jug.
The next day, the girls took the jugs and climbed down to earth, singing their song.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped out. The girls did not see.Then the girls went back to Heaven.
Frog took the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it. "You may marry my daughter if you bring a purse of money." Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will bring it for you." Kimana laughed. "You took a letter to Heaven. But can you bring a purse of money?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try." Kimana gave Frog a purse of money. Frog took hold of it with his mouth and carried it to the well. He climbed in and waited. The girls from Heaven came to the well.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
Frog got into one of the jugs. The girls returned to Heaven and left him in the room. Frog set the money on the bench. Then he hid.
The Sun Chief came and found the purse.
"How can this be?" He went to the girls. "Did you bring this money?" The girls said, "We did not." He went to his wife. The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "Let us see if he can come fetch me." So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and left it on the bench. Frog put the letter in his mouth and climbed into an empty jug. The next day, the girls carried him to earth.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
He jumped back into the well, and the girls went back to Heaven. Frog brought the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it.
"You may marry my daughter if you come and fetch her." Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will fetch her for you." Kimana laughed. "You took a letter to Heaven. You brought a purse of money. But can you fetch a bride?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try." Frog climbed back into the well. The girls came with their jugs.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They carried him to Heaven. Frog jumped out. He spit in all the jugs of water. Ptui. Ptui. Ptui. Then he hid in an empty jug. The people of the house came and drank the water. They all got sick.
The Sun Chief called for the spirit doctor. The doctor told him, "You promised your daughter to a man of earth, but she has not gone. He has sent an evil spirit with a sickness. The evil spirit is in the shape of a frog."
The Sun Chief went to his wife. The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "I will go." The next day, the Sky Maiden went with the girls down to the well.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
The girls filled their jugs, and Frog jumped out. Then the girls left the Sky Maiden and went home.
Frog jumped out of the well. "I will lead you to your husband." The Sky Maiden laughed. "Can a frog lead a woman?" Frog said, "I took a letter to Heaven. I brought a purse of money. I fetched a bride. Whatever it was, I could do it. But only if I try."
The Sky Maiden said, "Then it is you I will marry." She took Frog back to Heaven and married him. They lived on and on. And Kimana is still waiting for his bride.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
An Act of Abandonment
An Act of Abandonment
O my God, I thank you and I praise
you for accomplishing your holy
and all-lovable will without any regard for mine.
With my whole heart,
in spite of my heart,
do I receive this cross I feared so much!
It is the cross of Your choice,
the cross of Your love.
I venerate it;
nor for anything in the world
would I wish that it had not come,
since You willed it.
I keep it with gratitude and with joy,
as I do everything that comes from Your hand;
and I shall strive to carry it without letting it drag,
with all the respect
and all the affection which Your works deserve.
Amen.
O my God, I thank you and I praise
you for accomplishing your holy
and all-lovable will without any regard for mine.
With my whole heart,
in spite of my heart,
do I receive this cross I feared so much!
It is the cross of Your choice,
the cross of Your love.
I venerate it;
nor for anything in the world
would I wish that it had not come,
since You willed it.
I keep it with gratitude and with joy,
as I do everything that comes from Your hand;
and I shall strive to carry it without letting it drag,
with all the respect
and all the affection which Your works deserve.
Amen.
Positive Mental Attitude
Positive Mental Attitude
Use these quotations in an active way. Start writing down your own thoughts. Make notes expanding on what others have said, and come up with your own original thoughts which you can write down and use to guide yourself toward your goals. Perhaps someday your words might even help lead others down the road to success.
Besides using these quotations to reflect and go inward, you can also use them to enhance your state of mind as you go outward into the world.
The great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man.
Anon
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St. Frances De Sales, French bishop, author
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
Greek proverb
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford, American industrialist
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer, Physician, missionary, philosopher, Nobel laureate
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony, American feminist
Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it; he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
Willie Shoemaker, American jockey
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters, American broadcast journalist
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you, kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou, African-American poet
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes, African-American poet
Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.
Anon
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Nobel laureate
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler, British writer
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Peter A. Cohen, Investment banker
Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.
Anon
Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.
Marva Collins, African-American educator
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford, American actress
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B.F. Skinner, American psychologist
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift, English satirist
You have to...learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus, Roman writer
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
French proverb
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Carl Sandburg, American author
Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.
Archimedes, Greek mathematician
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Chinese proverb
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens, English novelist
Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.
Anon
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy, American President
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekov, Russian author
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. Sloan, Former Chairman
The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln, American President
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Irish author
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing, it was here first.
Mark Twain, American humorist
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins, American author, speaker
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman, American President
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "honest man." Your honesty influences others to be honest.
George Washington, American President
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash, Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
If you do not believe in yourself, very few other people will.
Anon
But to look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi, American football coach
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Anon
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson, American President
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill, motivational writer
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford, American industrialist
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton, American hotelier
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster, American political leader
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda, American actor
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill, British prime minister
Do the right thing.
Spike Lee, African-American film director
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields, American comic actor
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie, American writer, speaker
The best way to get something done is to begin.
Anon
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
Jewish proverb
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill, British prime minister
Do the right thing.
Spike Lee, African-American film director
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields, American comic actor
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect
If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton, American singer
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Al Neuharth, American publisher
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher
You never know what you can do until you try.
Anon
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.
Justin Hayward, British songwriter, musician
Act quickly, think slowly.
Greek proverb
When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.
Steve Rapson, American writer
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan, American songwriter, musician
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Sarah Caldwell, American conductor
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston, American actor
He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.
Moorish proverb
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes, French philosopher
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller, American evangelist
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, African-American civil rights leader
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Henry Kissinger, German-born American Secretary of State
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Adam Clayton Powell, African-American politician
In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus, Greek historian
Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.
Anon
When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert Redford, American actor
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes, American publisher
Hidden talent counts for nothing.
Nero, Roman emperor
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, American motivational speaker
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia, American educator and author
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
Reggie Jackson, African-American baseball player
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda, American publisher
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop, Greek fable writer
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Voltaire, French author
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Cadet maxim, U.S. Military Academy, West Point
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley, English writer
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin, African-American author
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
Anon
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway, American writer
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, American President
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Sr. Margaret Fitzpatrick, American educator
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
Jesus of Nazareth
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante, Italian poet
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson, American President
I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker, American singer
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
Larry King, American TV host
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge, American President
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.,, American entertainer
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren, American designer
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley, American writer
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas, American politician, author
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad, British author
Either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal, Carthaginian general
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton, American retailer
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Nobel laureate
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Anon
Imagine.
John Lennon, British songwriter, musician
Talk doesn't cook rice.
Chinese proverb
The best index to a person's character is [a] how he treats people who can't do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are you ready?"
Johnny Carson, American TV host
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden, English author
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary, British explorer and mountaineer
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Earl Nightingale, American motivational writer
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Anthony Robbins, American author and speaker
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Og Mandino, American motivational writer
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle, French general, statesman
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson, African-American civil rights activist
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
Wayne Dyer, American psychologist, author
If you keep saying that things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B. Singer, Yiddish novelist
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
Anon
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley, American counselor
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and do it.
Andrew Jackson, American President
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Don Shula, American football coach
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Nobel laureate
If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.
Anon
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Helen Keller, American essayist and lecturer
A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain, American humorist
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Henry Ford, American industrialist
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill, motivational writer
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon, American President
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer, American psychologist, author
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden, American basketball coach
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino, American motivational writer
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney, American film producer
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning, English poet
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali, African-American professional prize fighter
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca, American industrialist
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley, American basketball coach
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman orator
The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
Helen MacInness, Scottish author
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Tao Te King
Always do more than is required of you.
George S. Patton, American general
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, English writer
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace, Roman poet
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth, American baseball legend
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist
It's nice to be nice.
Harry Twible, American grandpa
Give, and it shall be given to you ... For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.
Luke 6:38
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra, Italian-born American film director
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Theresa, Roman Catholic nun, humanitarian
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Boris Pasternak, Russian author
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
Bob Richards, Olympic athlete
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli, American singer, actress
People gravitate toward people with the positive charisma of the entrepreneurial spirit.
Bill FitzPatrick, Motivational speaker
From small beginnings come great things.
American proverb
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey, American broadcast journalist
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
Anon
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, French poet
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian
Better late than never.
Latin proverb
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.
Anon
Do it now. Then it's done.
Anon
This is America. You can do anything here.
Robert E. Turner III, American cable-TV pioneer
You already have every characteristic necessary for success.
Anon
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
René Descartes, French philosopher
Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare, English writer
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
Anon
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James, American philosopher
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller, American essayist and lecturer
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hurry.
Abraham Lincoln, American President
It's the economy, stupid.
Bill Clinton, American President
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare, English writer
Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Anon
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your lives.
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
We must open the doors of opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American President
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, author, First Lady
Practice is the best master.
Latin proverb
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Mexican proverb
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel laureate
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson, British author
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
David Sarnoff, American industrialist, Founder, RCA
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain, American humorist
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone, American businessman, author
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump, American real estate executive
Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon, American TV host
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley, American writer
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson, American statesman
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher, American singer, actress
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
Dick Vermeil, American football coach, sportscaster
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
George Washington Carver, African-American scientist
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer
You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.
John Peers, President, Logical Machine Corporation
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, African-American professional basketball player
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.
John Lyly, English writer
Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
Anon
Habits change into character.
Ovid, Roman poet
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell, English novelist
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden, English poet
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, TV personality
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.
Anon
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift, English satirist
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Marva Collins, African-American educator
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal, French scientist
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J. Peters, American business writer
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills, American opera singer
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
No rules for success will work if you don't.
Anon
If thou can't believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Mark 9:23
I hope I have convinced you - the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown, Founder, Cosmopolitan Magazine
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Gypsy proverb
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player, American professional golfer
The past does not equal the future.
Anthony Robbins, American author and speaker
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Frank Gifford, American sportscaster
Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.
Anon
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer, Physician, missionary, philosopher, Nobel laureate
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
Bernard Baruch, American diplomat
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield, American President
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (b. 1743)
It is always your next move.
Napoleon Hill, motivational writer
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Aristotle, Greek philosopher
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
Joe Namath, American professional football player
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther, German religious reformer
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie, American writer and speaker
Things turn our best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden, American basketball coach
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Anon
The only way to start is to start.
Anon
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, Irish author
He who strikes first, strikes twice.
Mexican proverb
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson, African-American singer
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.
Aesop, Greek fable writer
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton, American general
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy, American President (b.1917)
If you wait till the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends and co-workers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Barbara Bush, American First Lady
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King, African-American civil rights leader
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
There is little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone, American businessman, author
Who dares wins.
Motto of the British Special Air Service
Success is simply of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson, American newspaper columnist
In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus, French philosopher
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers, American advice columnist
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
Anon
Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake ... If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends ... Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.
Charles Lazarus, American retailer
This is where you will win the battle, in the theater of your mind.
Maxwell Maltz, American author
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez, American folk singer, songwriter
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok, American academic
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor, Actor, Bodybuilder
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Publilius Syrus, Roman writer
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Betty Ford, American First Lady
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
To become different from what we are we must have some awareness of what we are.
Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist, actor
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
Anon
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field, American actress
Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.
The Koran
Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.
Anon
Knowledge Is Power
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Anon
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
Persian proverb
Prosperity begins with a state of mind.
Anon
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
French proverb
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka, American football coach
Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.
Aldous Huxley, English writer
There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.
Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
No one can make you feel small without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, author, First Lady
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
R. David Thomas, American entrepreneur
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott, American author
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana, Spanish-born American philosopher
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Anon
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank, Jewish holocaust victim
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol, American artist
Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Billie Jean King, American tennis player
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti, Italian professional race car driver
A problem is your chance to do your best.
Duke Ellington, American jazz musician
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur, American general
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
Anon
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes, Athenian orator
I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln, American President (b.1809)
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers, American advice columnist
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce, American soldier
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A.A. Milne, English children's author
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Anon
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Cuban proverb
The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
Anon
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
Victor Kiam, American industrialist
This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis, American actress
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy, American Senator
In order to win, you must expect to win.
Dan Fouts, American professional football player
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.
Anon
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey, American TV host
To win you have to risk loss.
Jean-Claude Killy, French professional skier
One may go a long way after one is tired.
French proverb
Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant, American educator
Those who can - do. Those who can't - criticize.
Anon
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin, British naturalist
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Anon
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Anon
A friend is known when needed.
Arabian proverb
Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
Danish proverb
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure ... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller, American evangelist
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney, American broadcast executive
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan, African-American basketball player
The secret of success is seldom well-kept.
Anon
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou, African-American poet
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson, African-American civil rights activist
The early bird gets the worm.
American proverb
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X, African-American author, activist
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo, French author
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore ... they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet
I will prepare, and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln, American President
The view only changes for the lead dog.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Fictional 1950's TV star
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong, American writer
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin, French author
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
James Levin, American educator
Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.
Anon
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Lou Holtz, Notre Dame football coach
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
James 1:19
Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
Dr. Robert Anthony, American educator
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe, African-American tennis player
Use these quotations in an active way. Start writing down your own thoughts. Make notes expanding on what others have said, and come up with your own original thoughts which you can write down and use to guide yourself toward your goals. Perhaps someday your words might even help lead others down the road to success.
Besides using these quotations to reflect and go inward, you can also use them to enhance your state of mind as you go outward into the world.
The great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man.
Anon
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St. Frances De Sales, French bishop, author
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
Greek proverb
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford, American industrialist
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer, Physician, missionary, philosopher, Nobel laureate
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony, American feminist
Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it; he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
Willie Shoemaker, American jockey
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters, American broadcast journalist
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you, kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou, African-American poet
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes, African-American poet
Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.
Anon
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Nobel laureate
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler, British writer
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Peter A. Cohen, Investment banker
Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.
Anon
Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.
Marva Collins, African-American educator
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford, American actress
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B.F. Skinner, American psychologist
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift, English satirist
You have to...learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus, Roman writer
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
French proverb
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Carl Sandburg, American author
Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.
Archimedes, Greek mathematician
If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.
Chinese proverb
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens, English novelist
Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.
Anon
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy, American President
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekov, Russian author
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. Sloan, Former Chairman
The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln, American President
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Irish author
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing, it was here first.
Mark Twain, American humorist
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins, American author, speaker
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman, American President
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "honest man." Your honesty influences others to be honest.
George Washington, American President
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash, Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
If you do not believe in yourself, very few other people will.
Anon
But to look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi, American football coach
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Anon
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson, American President
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill, motivational writer
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford, American industrialist
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton, American hotelier
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster, American political leader
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda, American actor
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill, British prime minister
Do the right thing.
Spike Lee, African-American film director
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields, American comic actor
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie, American writer, speaker
The best way to get something done is to begin.
Anon
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
Jewish proverb
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill, British prime minister
Do the right thing.
Spike Lee, African-American film director
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields, American comic actor
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect
If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton, American singer
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Al Neuharth, American publisher
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher
You never know what you can do until you try.
Anon
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.
Justin Hayward, British songwriter, musician
Act quickly, think slowly.
Greek proverb
When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.
Steve Rapson, American writer
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan, American songwriter, musician
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Sarah Caldwell, American conductor
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston, American actor
He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.
Moorish proverb
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes, French philosopher
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller, American evangelist
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, African-American civil rights leader
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Henry Kissinger, German-born American Secretary of State
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Adam Clayton Powell, African-American politician
In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus, Greek historian
Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.
Anon
When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert Redford, American actor
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes, American publisher
Hidden talent counts for nothing.
Nero, Roman emperor
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, American motivational speaker
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia, American educator and author
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
Reggie Jackson, African-American baseball player
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda, American publisher
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop, Greek fable writer
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Voltaire, French author
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Cadet maxim, U.S. Military Academy, West Point
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley, English writer
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin, African-American author
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
Anon
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway, American writer
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, American President
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Sr. Margaret Fitzpatrick, American educator
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
Jesus of Nazareth
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante, Italian poet
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson, American President
I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker, American singer
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
Larry King, American TV host
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge, American President
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.,, American entertainer
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren, American designer
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley, American writer
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas, American politician, author
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad, British author
Either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal, Carthaginian general
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton, American retailer
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Nobel laureate
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Anon
Imagine.
John Lennon, British songwriter, musician
Talk doesn't cook rice.
Chinese proverb
The best index to a person's character is [a] how he treats people who can't do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are you ready?"
Johnny Carson, American TV host
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden, English author
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary, British explorer and mountaineer
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Earl Nightingale, American motivational writer
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Anthony Robbins, American author and speaker
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Og Mandino, American motivational writer
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle, French general, statesman
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson, African-American civil rights activist
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
Wayne Dyer, American psychologist, author
If you keep saying that things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B. Singer, Yiddish novelist
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
Anon
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley, American counselor
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and do it.
Andrew Jackson, American President
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Don Shula, American football coach
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Nobel laureate
If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.
Anon
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Helen Keller, American essayist and lecturer
A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain, American humorist
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Henry Ford, American industrialist
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill, motivational writer
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon, American President
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer, American psychologist, author
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden, American basketball coach
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino, American motivational writer
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney, American film producer
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning, English poet
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali, African-American professional prize fighter
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca, American industrialist
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley, American basketball coach
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman orator
The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
Helen MacInness, Scottish author
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Tao Te King
Always do more than is required of you.
George S. Patton, American general
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, English writer
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace, Roman poet
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth, American baseball legend
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist
It's nice to be nice.
Harry Twible, American grandpa
Give, and it shall be given to you ... For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.
Luke 6:38
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra, Italian-born American film director
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Theresa, Roman Catholic nun, humanitarian
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Boris Pasternak, Russian author
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
Bob Richards, Olympic athlete
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli, American singer, actress
People gravitate toward people with the positive charisma of the entrepreneurial spirit.
Bill FitzPatrick, Motivational speaker
From small beginnings come great things.
American proverb
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey, American broadcast journalist
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
Anon
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, French poet
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian
Better late than never.
Latin proverb
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.
Anon
Do it now. Then it's done.
Anon
This is America. You can do anything here.
Robert E. Turner III, American cable-TV pioneer
You already have every characteristic necessary for success.
Anon
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
René Descartes, French philosopher
Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare, English writer
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
Anon
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James, American philosopher
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller, American essayist and lecturer
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hurry.
Abraham Lincoln, American President
It's the economy, stupid.
Bill Clinton, American President
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare, English writer
Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Anon
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your lives.
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
We must open the doors of opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American President
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, author, First Lady
Practice is the best master.
Latin proverb
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Mexican proverb
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel laureate
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson, British author
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
David Sarnoff, American industrialist, Founder, RCA
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain, American humorist
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone, American businessman, author
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump, American real estate executive
Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon, American TV host
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley, American writer
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson, American statesman
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher, American singer, actress
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
Dick Vermeil, American football coach, sportscaster
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
George Washington Carver, African-American scientist
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer
You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.
John Peers, President, Logical Machine Corporation
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, African-American professional basketball player
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.
John Lyly, English writer
Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
Anon
Habits change into character.
Ovid, Roman poet
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell, English novelist
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden, English poet
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, TV personality
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.
Anon
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift, English satirist
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Marva Collins, African-American educator
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal, French scientist
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J. Peters, American business writer
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills, American opera singer
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
No rules for success will work if you don't.
Anon
If thou can't believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Mark 9:23
I hope I have convinced you - the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown, Founder, Cosmopolitan Magazine
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Gypsy proverb
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player, American professional golfer
The past does not equal the future.
Anthony Robbins, American author and speaker
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Frank Gifford, American sportscaster
Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.
Anon
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer, Physician, missionary, philosopher, Nobel laureate
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
Bernard Baruch, American diplomat
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield, American President
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (b. 1743)
It is always your next move.
Napoleon Hill, motivational writer
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Aristotle, Greek philosopher
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
Joe Namath, American professional football player
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther, German religious reformer
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie, American writer and speaker
Things turn our best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden, American basketball coach
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Anon
The only way to start is to start.
Anon
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, Irish author
He who strikes first, strikes twice.
Mexican proverb
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson, African-American singer
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.
Aesop, Greek fable writer
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton, American general
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy, American President (b.1917)
If you wait till the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends and co-workers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Barbara Bush, American First Lady
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King, African-American civil rights leader
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw, British playwright
There is little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone, American businessman, author
Who dares wins.
Motto of the British Special Air Service
Success is simply of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson, American newspaper columnist
In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus, French philosopher
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers, American advice columnist
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
Anon
Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake ... If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends ... Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.
Charles Lazarus, American retailer
This is where you will win the battle, in the theater of your mind.
Maxwell Maltz, American author
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez, American folk singer, songwriter
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok, American academic
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor, Actor, Bodybuilder
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Publilius Syrus, Roman writer
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Betty Ford, American First Lady
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
To become different from what we are we must have some awareness of what we are.
Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist, actor
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
Anon
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field, American actress
Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.
The Koran
Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.
Anon
Knowledge Is Power
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Anon
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
Persian proverb
Prosperity begins with a state of mind.
Anon
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
French proverb
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka, American football coach
Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.
Aldous Huxley, English writer
There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.
Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
No one can make you feel small without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, author, First Lady
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
R. David Thomas, American entrepreneur
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott, American author
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana, Spanish-born American philosopher
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Anon
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank, Jewish holocaust victim
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol, American artist
Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Billie Jean King, American tennis player
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti, Italian professional race car driver
A problem is your chance to do your best.
Duke Ellington, American jazz musician
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur, American general
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
Anon
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes, Athenian orator
I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln, American President (b.1809)
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers, American advice columnist
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce, American soldier
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A.A. Milne, English children's author
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Anon
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Cuban proverb
The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
Anon
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
Victor Kiam, American industrialist
This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis, American actress
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy, American Senator
In order to win, you must expect to win.
Dan Fouts, American professional football player
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher
The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.
Anon
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey, American TV host
To win you have to risk loss.
Jean-Claude Killy, French professional skier
One may go a long way after one is tired.
French proverb
Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant, American educator
Those who can - do. Those who can't - criticize.
Anon
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin, British naturalist
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Anon
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Anon
A friend is known when needed.
Arabian proverb
Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
Danish proverb
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure ... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller, American evangelist
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney, American broadcast executive
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan, African-American basketball player
The secret of success is seldom well-kept.
Anon
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou, African-American poet
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson, African-American civil rights activist
The early bird gets the worm.
American proverb
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X, African-American author, activist
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo, French author
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore ... they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet
I will prepare, and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln, American President
The view only changes for the lead dog.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Fictional 1950's TV star
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong, American writer
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin, French author
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
James Levin, American educator
Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.
Anon
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Lou Holtz, Notre Dame football coach
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
James 1:19
Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
Dr. Robert Anthony, American educator
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe, African-American tennis player
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