"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem
so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564, Artist
"The Best Way To Predict Your Future Is Create It."
"Experience is What is Left Over After One Makes A Mistake"
"One's Success In Life Is Hidden In Their Daily Routine"
"The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid."
- Richard Braunstein
Worrying is like being in a rocking chair,
It gives you something to do but does not get you anywhere.
--- Anon
" A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love;
there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
Wayne Dyer - Psychotherapist and Writer
"Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble."
- French Proverb -
Whatever dreams you're dreaming,
May each one of them come true.
Whatever plans you're making,
May they all work out for you.
And may you have more happiness
Than any words can tell.
Not only on this day,
But all the year as well.
May you have a little sunlight
to guide you on your way.
May you discover, little by little,
happiness that's here to stay.
May you grow a little stronger
and a little wiser with each dawn
May you have a little time to
believe in dreams to dream upon
May all the joy your heart desires
find its way to you.
And may the blessings that brighten up your days
keep on shining through.
Author Unknown
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you
can dream it, you can make it so."
Belva Davis - Award-Winning Journalist
Every achiever that I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I
began to believe in me."
Dr. Robert H. Schuller - Minister
"Wisdom is a healthy balance of reason and intuition." (N.S. Xavier)
"The best way to know God is to love many things." (Van Gough)
"He who believes is strong, he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
J.F. Clarke
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
Mark Twain
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
--- Thomas Edison
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
(Ernest Holmes)
"Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's
talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of
success that endure when material things have passed away."
Gerald Ford Former President of the United States
"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anyting be more fun?"
Katherine Graham
"until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer
Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract
all that you need or desire. -
Wayne Dyer "The Secrets to Manifesting your Destiny"
If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none will believe it.
--- Anon
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred
times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and
first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow
that did it, but all that had gone before."
Jacob A. Riis 1849-1914, Journalist and Social Reformer
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than
you can by what others say about him."
Leo Aikman - Writer and Newspaper Editor
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Hugh Downs - Veteran Journalist
"There are those who Think and do not Act,
and there are those who Act and do not Think;
Top Performers Think and then Act."
John Kanary - Author and Speaker
"Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's
the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race."
Andrew Carnegie - 1835-1919, American Industrialist and Philanthropist
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life
is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is
possible."
Richard DeVos - Co-founder of Amway Corp.
"You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't
catch a fish if you don't put your line in the water. You can't reach
your goals if you don't try."
Kathy Seligman - Author
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before
them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
Orison Swett Marden - 1850-1924, Founder of Success Magazine
"It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...
you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth
is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it."
Bob Proctor - Author and Speaker
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but
doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next
moment."
Oprah Winfrey - Award Winning Media Personality
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds;
it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous
opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."
Earl Nightingale - 1921-1989, Philosopher and Syndicated Radio Personality
"Success is not a native of any nation neither is it related to any
family, so you don't have an excuse not to leave the imprint of impact
of the sand of time before your time is over on this planet."
Akin A Awolaja - Educator of Wise Living
"One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary
setbacks defeat us."
Mary Kay - 1915-2001, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve - Actor who became an Inspirational Speaker after being paralyzed
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule
our lives from within."
Earl Nightingale - 1921-1989, Philosopher and Syndicated Radio Personality
"If you approach life with a sense of possibility and the expectation of
positive results, you're more likely to have a life in which possibilities
are realized and results are positive."
Lisa Funderburg - Writer
There is no fire like greed and no crime like hatred. There is no sorrow like being bound
to this world; there is no happiness like freedom.
-Dhammapada
"If you approach life with a sense of possibility and the expectation of
positive results, you're more likely to have a life in which possibilities
are realized and results are positive."
Lisa Funderburg - Writer
"Through love, Through friendship, a heart lives more than one life"
Anais Nin
"Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt."
Jenna Wright - Single Mother and Entrepreneur
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest
summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have,
and should have."
Louis E. Boone - Author
"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything
they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want
to do."
Kathleen Winsor - Author
"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy
rent-free space in your mind."
Isabelle Holland - Author
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to
take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has
opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances
gets on."
Samuel Goldwyn - 1879-1974, Film Producer
It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are
you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that
will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from
greatness."
Bob Proctor - Author and Speaker
"Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it
out."
Lee Iaccoca - Automobile Executive and Author
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you
think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt - 1884-1962, Social Activist and Former First Lady
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If
you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will
prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."
Thomas Dreier - Author
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears
to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.
--- Sun Szu
"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could
not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a
failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in
his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops
the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it.
The capacity for reformation and change lies within."
Rev. Dr. Preston Bradley
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better
care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier
than change."
Jim Rohn - Author and Speaker
"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is
a habit."
Aristotle - 384-322 BC, Greek Philosopher and Scientist
"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting
goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become
endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no
matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams."
Og Mandino - 1923-1996, Author
"If you really want something, work hard, take advantage
of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."
Jane Goodall - Scientist and Researcher
"You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half
the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."
Lydia M. Child - 1802-1880, U.S. Abolitionist and Writer
"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself
as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop this picture!"
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale - 1898-1993, Author of "The Power of Positive Thinking"
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if
they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be
amazed at the energy that comes out of you."
William James - 1842-1910, American Philosopher
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared"
Eddie Rickenbacher
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead
of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by
our today."
Stewart B. Johnson
Nothing is that which rocks dream about.
--- Aristotle
"Everybody builds a dream in their lifetime. Your either going to
build your dream, or somebody else's. So build your own!"
Christopher LaBrec - Independent Business Owner
The impossible is often the untried.
--- Jim Goodwin
"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."
Louise Hay - Author and Speaker
"Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into
actual deeds."
Grenville Kleiser - 1868-1953, Author