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“A gem cannot be polished without
friction, nor a man perfected without trials." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A hero is a man who does what he can." - Roman Rollard
“A joyful life is an individual creation
that cannot be copied from a recipe.” – Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination,
the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for
the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." - Vince Lombardi
“A man must make his opportunity,
as oft as find it." – Sir Francis Bacon
“Action
may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Actions
are the seed of fate. Deeds grow into destiny."
– Harry S. Truman
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning
"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
"All changes are
created in a moment - with a simple choice." -
R.T. Gorham
"All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that 'luck' is most often
being prepared to take advantage of a situation." - Unknown
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
"Always remember who you are, and you will always know where you are going." - Stephanie Duxbury
"Always wear a smile to have a stress free day. It won't hurt smiling and creating an aura of a welcoming
heart. Happiness in your heart can combat any form of adversity coupled with positive thoughts and faith. You'll
embrace, face, and welcome all experiences with bliss and confidence in your heart and with poise and grace." - James Padilla
"...and just when you think I'm down for the count, I get back up AGAIN." - Traci Connelly
"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We
are capable of greater things than we realize." - Norman Vincent Peale
“Appreciation is a wonderful
thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." - Mel
Brooks
"At the center of your being you have the answer; You know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao-tzu
"Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for." - Ruth Boorstin
"Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, or selfishness that violate
basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift
Off" takes tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension." - Stephen
Covey from "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that
forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all
heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." - James Allen
"Constant dripping hollows out a stone." - Lucretius
"Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American Writer
"Criticism comes easier than creativity." - Zeuxis, 400 B.C.
"Do not strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." - William B. Sprague
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print;
experience is what you get when you don't." - Pete Seeger
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are
alive is the biggest wonder of all." - David Fontana
"Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive
right." - Aldous Huxley
"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more
in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself
once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Everything gone is never gone for it is the beginning for new things to begin." - Unknown
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but
a habit." - Aristotle
“Feet, why do I need them if I have
wings to fly?” – Frida Kahlo
"Few cases of eye strain have been developed by looking at the bright side of things." - Unknown
"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A
'you can do it' when things are tough." - DeVos
General Colin Powell's Rules to Live By:
1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
"Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth." - Archimedes
"Giving of ourselves is the way we can change the world at the end of our fingertips." - Richard F. Schubert
“Go
before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.” - Confucius
"Good things come to those who wait." - Proverb
"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of
your vacation." - Anon.
“Happiness
depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has." - Epictetus
(55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much." - Thomas Fuller
"He only profits from praise who values criticism." - Heinrich Heine
“He who has a why can endure any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness that this world affords." - Samuel
Johnson
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches on the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never
stops at all." - Emily Dickenson
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - William Shakespeare
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world." - Anne
Frank
"I believe there are no efforts without errors, that is what makes us humans. But our ability to correct
them is what makes us beings." - Festus Ehinome Ayemere
"I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will
be around to be proven wrong." - Stuart Wilde
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
- Dr. Jonas Salk
"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable
tears into something bearable, even hopeful." - Bob Hope
"I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." - Chinese Proverb
"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces
up and begin again." - Flavia Weedn
"If something happens to you that you can't control, don't waste your time worrying about it. But if you
can do something to fix it, then do it." - David "Pie" Crossnoe
"If we conduct our lives with grace and integrity, the mirror smiles back." - Lorraine Vost
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant..." - Anne Bradstreet
"If you face problems with confidence and make a decision that I CAN, nothing is impossible. Yes, miracles
do happen but only if willpower is there." - Unknown
"If you take the long road towards your goals and do things right, you will be rewarded. If
you take short cuts, you will get cut short. Your rewards may not be financial, they may be spiritual or social, but they
will most be in direct proportion with the effort you put forth." - Rev. Run
"In Compassion lies the world's true strength." - Buddha
"In life, remember that GOOD judgement comes from experience...and experience comes from BAD judgement.
You gotta live to learn!" - Unknown
“In reading the lives of great
men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came
first.” – Harry S. Truman
“In reality, serendipity accounts
for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other
99 percent is due to our efforts.” – Peter McWilliams
"It's amazing how you can lose so much and just when you believe you have nothing to live for, you look
back and realize that you've gained so much more than you've ever lost." - Eda Suzer
"It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it." - W. Mitchell
"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." - George Bernard Shaw
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Laugh
and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life." –
Og Mandino
"Laugh at the imperfections; love the misdirections 'cause happiness is realizing that it's so much easier
to smile." - Andy Brommel
"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to
make you happy in the future. Think how really precious this time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with family.
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." - Earl Nightingale
"Life can't give me joy and peace; it's up to me to will it. Life gives me time and space; it's up to me
to fill it." - Unknown
“Life involves
risk. Without risk, we are not living, loving or learning.” – Maria Haramis
"Life
is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit."
– Theodore Roosevelt
"Life is struggle. The one who enjoys this struggle is the real winner." - Anupama Kamble
"Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well." - Danish proverb
"Live the life you want to remember." - Unknown
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." - Jean Anouilh
"Love is like Pi: natural, irrational and very important." - Lisa Hoffman
“Love What
You Do. Do What You Love.” -Wayne Dyer
"Many people experience a fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly
see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role such as that of husband or wife, parent
or grandparent, manager or leader. It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can
perhaps appropriately focus our attitudes or behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work
our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at
the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives if we get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our
attitudes and behaviors flow." - Stephen Covey from "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." - Norman R. Augustine
"My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the
force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I
hold the key to my destiny." - Elaine Maxwell
"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us." - William James
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois
Mauriac
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke
"Not to decide is a decision." - From Donna O'Toole's fortune cookie
"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart." - John Heywood
“Nothing
is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” - Ralph Blum
"Now, I say to you my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have
a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" - Martin
Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Right March on Washington, August 28,1963
"Others will underestimate us, for although we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, others
judge us only by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable
of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.”
– Katherine Anne Porter
"People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own
success. Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach." - Jeffrey Gitomer
“Persist
and persevere, and you will find most things
that are attainable, possible.” – Lord Chesterfield
"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention.
I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass." - Ron Jaworski
“Realize that true happiness lies
within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world
outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having
or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting
a few drops on yourself.” – Og Mandino
"Refuse to let hope be squashed by mere possibilities. It is within you to choose hope until your
last breath." - Victoria Wolfe
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid
the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
This year is going, let
him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
- Lord Tennyson
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to
new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay
in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same." - Flavia Weedn
"Sometimes people have hurt us. We ask ourselves, 'Why me?' I say, 'Why not me?' The things we go through
in life happen for a reason and help prepare us for the next step in life. Have faith in yourself and anything you want will
happen. Always go forward, don't go backward." - Unknown
"Sometimes, the winds of time change, maybe people in your life will leave, go on to a better place, whatever
it may be, no matter what, great memories are the key things to our lives. We live to fight, to hold on to them, and those
memories are what keep us going." - Unknown
"Sometimes, there are no words; only shoulders to lean on, hands to hold onto, and hugs to comfort you as
best they can." - Unknown
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance." - Yoko Ono
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few
errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgements that leads to
either fortune or failure." - Jim Rohn
"Tears will not erase your sorrow; hope does not make you successful; courage will get you there." - John
Pangalila
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Unknown
"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles,
but to win in spite of thousand repulses and defeats." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The darkest hour is just before dawn." - Proverb
"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other
from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.” – Benjamin
Franklin
“The essence of being human is that
one does not seek perfection.” – George Orwell
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even
our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives." - Albert Einstein
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose
one's own way." - Victor Frankl
“The only
source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
"The reason why birds can fly and simply we can't is that they have FAITH, for to have faith is to have
wings." - Unknown
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
"The secret of success is contancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The substance of a 'dream' is really what is known to us, from reality. To experience the 'dream', live
the dream through reality; it is, your dream!" - Donna Avvento
"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up
his cross, gives him ample opportunity - even under the most difficult circumstances - to add a deeper meaning to his life."
- Dr. Victor Frankl (from his book "Man's Search for Meaning.")
"The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself." - Brian Tracy
"Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out,
but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow."
- Emily Miller
“There
is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” – Francis Bacon
“There
is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." - Sister Mary Rose McGeady
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." - Alexander Woollcott
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power
of our will." - Epictetus
"There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness."
- Euripides
"There is time enough for everything." - Albert Einstein
"There may be a lot of hurdles, like the stars, but there is only one thing to overshine them, like the
sun, and that is courage." - Shakeel Mohammed
"Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and
instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"To fly, we have to have resistance." - Maya Lin
"To have a friend in my life like you doesn't mean sailing on a boat without any storms. Rather it means
having a boat that can sail in every storm." - Babbu Pandu
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect
when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage." - Claude M. Bristol
"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is
astonishment at anything that may happen in life." - Marcus Aurelius
"Watch where you are going, not where you've been." - Unknown
"We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it." - Sharon
Salzberg
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered
along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph A. Addison
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must
inevitably come to pass." - Paul Meyer
"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your
reason get you back up." - Les Brown
"When you are falling apart, open your heart and reach out. Somebody will definitely catch your hand and
pull you together again." - Hartina Ahmed Tharbe
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's
bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much
warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space." - Pema Chodron
"Where there is great love there are always miracles." - Wilda Cather
"Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire." - Wayne Dyer
"You can observe alot by watching." - Yogi Berra
"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there." - Venus Williams
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