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Abundance Accomplishments
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped We accomplish big things by doing small things over and over. Hal Urban Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. John Wooden
Accomplishment and success are often the result of
Achievement The greatest achievements are those that benefit others. Dennis Waitley If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe, I know I can achieve it! Reverend Jesse Jackson Ninety-fiver percent of achieving anything is knowing what you want and paying the price to get it. John Maxwell Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller The greatest satisfaction in life is achieving what everyone said could not be done. Chinese Proverb What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
It is by
acts and not by ideas that people live.- Anatole France
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.--Charles F. Kettering Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way Action Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez (b. 1941) The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into actions.Germaine de Stael We are all artists, creating our masterpiece with the brush-stroke of each action. To make progress in any field, you have to take action. John Maxwell, Thinking for a Change When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happines without action. Imperfect action is better than perfewct inaction. Harry Truman
Advice Write down the advice of him who loves you When we ask advice, we are usually looking for The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself. -- Frank Tyger Affluence Aging Agony Agreement If
you want others to agree with you, you must first be Aim Men his only what they aim at. Henry David Thoreau A soul without a high aim is like
a ship without a rudder. All None of us is as smart as all of us. ken
Blanchard Altering Circumstances Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.Mother Maribel CSMV Analysis Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no more. -- Henri Frederic Amiel Ancestors To forget one's ancestors is to be a book without a source, a tree without a root. Chinese Proverb Animals The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) Anger Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend....It will always tell us that it is time to act in our own best interests. Julia Cameron The Artist's Way No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. George Jean Nathan Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Dance of Anger Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. - Aristotle Let not the sun go down on your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 Answer Antagonist Anxiety Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. Arthur Somers Roche
Anyway
Apology Appreciation Showing our appreciation to others is one of the highest expressions of respect and courtesy. Hal Urban
The deepest craving of human nature is
the need to Approval Architects Every man is the architect of his own fortune. -- Sallust If architects want to strengthen a decrepit
arch, they icrease the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are
joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients'
mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a
reorientation toward the meaning of one's life. Argue Art of Living Living well is an art which can be developed. Of course, you will Art -Francis Bacon Art - Salvador Dali Art -
Art - Michelangelo Art -Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso I begin with an idea and then it becomes
something else.Pablo Picasso Painting is just another way of keeping
a diary.Pablo Picasso Art - Auguste Rodin Art/Artist A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994) Asking
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb. Aspiration If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. - Cicero, De Orstore 80B.C. If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. Thomas A. Edison Attempts Attention That which holds our attention determines our action. William James Give whatever
you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention.
Jim Rohn
Attitude
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the lasts of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor Frankl Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight. Denis Waitley The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. William James Our self-talk is our attitude. Hal Urban Our attitudes propel us forward toward our victories or bog us down in defeat. Helmstetter Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life. John Homer Miller Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. Pat Riley A happy person is not a person in a certain set of Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a
A great attitude
is not the result of success; success is The greatest discovery of this generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitude. William James
First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us. Dennis Waitley They are able who think they are able. Virgil Attitude Outlook determines outcome; attitude determines action. Warren Wiersbe Author B
Battle There is in true beauty something which vulgar souls
cannot Beauty is not diminished by being shared. Become You become what you think about. Earl Nightingale (Ear said if you spent one hour a day pursuing your dream, you'd be a national expert in 5 years.)
Becoming The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get Beginning Being Beginning Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what The beginning is half of every action. --Greek proverb Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in Being Behavior How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior. LeRoy Eims
Being We are what we seem to
be. Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere - that it costs something to be what you are. Shirley Abbott, Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South Become What we become depends not on conditions but on decisions. Hal Urban Believe When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. Norman Vincent Peale Somehow I
can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man
who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret -
curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is
confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly
and unquestionable. -- Walt Disney
Belief in Self People become really quite remarkable Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles Kettering Best - Doing the Best It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very
best you Choose always the way that seems best, however rough it may be.
Pythagoras Believe in the best, think your best, study your best, have a goal for
the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and
in the long run, things will turn out for the best. Henry Ford Best We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred
human Bicycle Biography Blessings eflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has Blessings come disguised as problems. Work through your problems, and blessings will follow. L. Walkup Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of
pains, It is difficult to accept adversity as a blessing, but time
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many: not on yur past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens. Bliss Follow your bliss. Joseph Campbell Boldness Whatever you can do, or dream you can – begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Books & Reading Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris. A book is like a garden carried in a pocket. -- Chinese proverb The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain The end of reading is not more books, but more life. Holbrook Jackson. I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536). Nothing will take the place of a shelf full of books by one's own chair. -- A. Edward Newton Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier. Kathleen Norris The worse thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones. Joseph Joubert Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with dilligence and attention. Francis Bacon Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.Ruth Rendell Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles Eliot The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle Books are the carriers of civilization. Barbara Tuchman, People who censor books are usually illiterate. John D. MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, 1964 When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus There is something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own - learned, kind, knowledgeable and human.Nathan Pine Certain books have exerted a profound influence on history, culture, civilization and scientific thought throughout recorded time.... In every historical era, we find overwhelming evidence of the power of the written word without which a high state of civilization and culture is inconceivable in any time or place. Robert Downs It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one should not read. More than half of modern culture depends on what one should not read. Oscar Wilde The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.Unknown No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally, and often far more, worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.C. S. Lewis The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. Mark Twain Tis the good reader that makes a good book. Emerson Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. F. Bacon We read to know we're not alone -- C. S. Lewis Born We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Mary Antin, The Promised Land Boundaries Boundart: In political geography, an imaginary line Brains Bravery Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Bridges Bringing It is not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it . Anne of Green Gables Burden Can If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. Mary Kay Ash, New York Times Candidates Capacity Capturing ideas If you haven't been capturing your ideas on paper, you're missing an opportunity to take them to the next level. John Maxwell Thinking for a Change Career The best careers advice to the young is: "Find out what you like doing best t\and get someone to pay you for doing it." Katharine Whitehorn. English Newspaper Columnist Caution Ceremony When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Emotions flow more freely. All is made new; everything becomes sacred. Sun Bear, Native American Chief (b. 1929) Challenge Challenges make you discover things about yourself that
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. --
Terry Bradshaw Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the Accept the
challenges, so that you may feel the Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. William J. Bennett Change God grant me
the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change
the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold
Niebuhr Champ Chance Change The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. --Rosanne Cash
Change starts when someone sees the next step. William Drayton We must become the change we wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.--Carol Burnett Any change, even a change
for the better, is always Change brings opportunity. -- Nido Qubein Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that has. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks Nothing will change until You change at least one thing. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Eleanor Roosevelt Change God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr We must become the change we wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi Remember, we cannot change anyone. The best we can do is influence their future choices. James Hunter Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.
Character
Character is the ability to follow through on a
resolution A
man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune. ~Publilius Syrus A man's character and his garden both reflect the amount
of
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. — Thomas Paine Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch Character is
like a tree and reputation like its shadow. Personality can
open doors, but only character can keep Changes Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin To change one's life, start immediately. William James There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus, Greek philosopher Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. James Maxwell People are more scared of than than they are scared of death. C. Myss God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; give us the courage to change what should be changed; give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other Reinhold Niebuhr, Religious and Social Thinker No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. Marilyn Ferguson If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. you have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Edelman All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Character People grow
through experience if they meet life honestly Character is the
only secure foundation of the state. Character is
like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think
of it; the tree is the real thing. Character, not circumstance, makes
the person.
The function of
education is to teach one to think intensively and to think
critically... Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true
education. The measure of a
man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found
out. You can easily
judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing
for him. Our
character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more Every man has three
characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he
thinks he has. Children In raising my children, I have
lost my mind but found Choices
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude Judith M. Knowlton It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. last chapter. The end result of your life here on earth will always be the sum total of the choices you made while you were here. Shad Helmstetter Life is the sum of your
choices.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. J. Martin Kohe
Circumstances Our present circumstances don't determine where you can The people who get on in this world are the people who get Man is not the creature of circumstances;
circumstances Circumstance Civilization The true test of
civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops –
no, but the kind of man the country turns out. Cleanliness Better keep yourself clean and bright - you are the window through which you must see the world. G. B. Shaw To clean up the universe, clean up your own backyard. Zen saying
Coffee is the common man's gold and like gold, it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility. Abd-Al-Kadir 1587 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. Eliot (The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) [Coffee is]...the most precious of blisses. Johann Sebastian Bach Where coffee is served, there is grace and splendor (anonymous) Good coffee is black as sin, pure as the angels, strong as death, and sweet as love. Creole saying College Comfort Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. The Beatitudes We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't Frank Clark Comfortable Commitment Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what Total commitment is the common denominator among successful men and women. Joyce Brothers Loving involves commitment. We are not automatic lovers of Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to Communication The metacommunicational axiom of the pragmatics of communication
can be postulated: one Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kind of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him. Virginia Saatir Peoplemaking Comparing A common pitfall on the path to excellence is an overemphasis on comparing our progress with others. Michael Gelb Sympathy sees and says, 'I'm sorry.' Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. Theodore Isaac Rubin Every moment spent expressing compassion for another is a holy moment. Dr. Richard Carlson Complaining I never complained of my condition but once, said an old man - when my feet were bare, and I had no money to buy shoes; but I met a man without feet, and became contented. H. K. White Compromise Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Computers Concern Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. Karen Horney, Self-Analysis Confidence Conscience Cowardice asks
the question, ‘Is it safe?’ While conscience
is our friend, all is at peace; however I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you
Never do anything against conscience even if the state
Conservative Constant effort It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.-- Claude M. Bristol Consultant
True contentment . . . is getting out of any situation all that there is in it. --G. K. Chesterton Contentment He who is not contended with what he has, would not be contended with what he would like to have. Socrates Contribution to the world What we have to contribute is both unique and irreplaceable. What we withhold from life is lost from life. The entire world depends upon our individual choices. Duane Elgin , author of Voluntary Simplicity Conviction Conviction
is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. --
Thomas Carlysle Cooperation - Working Together Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. -- Stephen Covey Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -– Helen Keller
Courage Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Linquist
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. --
Mark Twain The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. --John F. Kennedy Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the ittle voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. --Mary Anne Radmacher Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894 It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it
does to have tried and succeeded. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. --Mark Twain
Courtesy Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. it is the cheapest of the pleasures: costs nothing and conveys much. Erastus Wilman Cowards Creativity Credit Critic Criticize He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln Crown Your cross is your crown. L. Walkup Curiosity Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. -- Samuel Johnson
Dare
Far better to
dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Days How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dilliard A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Decisions It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is Deeds Defeat Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marilyn vos Savant Desire It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. --Rebecca West Motivation starts with a sense of desire….When you want something, you become motivated to get it. Denis Waitley Desire is the seed from which all achievement grows. More than any other characteristic, it determines whether we’re going to be mediocre or successful in life. Desire, not ability separates average people from those who excel. Hal Urban There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're Destiny Destiny To grow, you must be willing to let your present and Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter
of Determination Diamonds Die To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm Difficulties The best way out of a difficulty is through it --Anon. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Channing The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus Welcome difficulties and obstacles as valuable steps in The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow
strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure --
Peter Marshal Direction Dirt Discipline Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more. Sybil Stanton Discontent Discouragement often is a result of listening to people Discovery Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce Disposition The world improves people according to the dispositions Distress Dog Doing Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. --Charles D. Gill You did what you knew how to do. And when you knew better, You did better. - Maya Angelou. To love what you do, and feel that it matters. How could anything be more fun?- Katherine Graham A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. -- Albert Schweitzer I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accompishes all through me. William Blake. Whatever you do, don't do halfway Bob Beamon Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough The time when you need to do something is when no one You do what you have to do, to do what you want to
do. Always do more than what is required of you. George S. Patton Doing Whenever you do a little thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John
Wooden Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson What one has to do usually can be done. --Eleanor Roosevelt The way to do well is to do well. Donald Rumsfeld (Rummy's Rules by Kinney Bennett) It is not what happens that determines the major part of You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt You have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. --Ruth Smeltzer How to succeed: try hard enough. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Tony Robbins Done Boast not of what thou would'st
have done, but do. --John Milton
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. Yiddish proverb Reach high, for stars lie hidden
in your soul. Dream deep, Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken- Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.--Phantom F. Harlock The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius power, and magic in it. Johann Wofgang Von Goethe If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau All successful men and women are big dreamers. They Dreams expand our universe. Dreams are the heart.
A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the
stuff A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person Education A good education is another name for happiness. Plato Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins. Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of the educated man. Norman Cousins Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
The end and aim of all education is the development of character. Francis W. Parker Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle Training is anchored to the past. Education looks
toward Effort Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the Emotion Dr. Phil: "You must get past the myth of willpower. Willpower is fueled by emotion and emotions are fickle. We make resolutions when we're emotionally pumped, but five weeks later, those emotions aren't there. And that's when it has to be about more than emotion. You have to set up your life so it's easy to do what you need to do and hard to do what you shouldn't do. If you had a toothache, you wouldn't cancel an appointment with the dentist because your sister needed your help to move her fridge; don't cancel an appointment at the gym because your sister needs your help. You deserve to make your own priority list. Dr. Phil from "Dr. Phil's Wise Words Good Housekeeping February 2005 page 157
Enduring Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is Environment You are a produce of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. W. Clement Stone Excellence The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. --Horace Excuse Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you; never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher If we’re always looking for excuses for why we can’t do things, we’ll never find the reasons why we can. Hal Urban An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an Experience There is only one thing more painful than learning Evaluation Criteria Everyday Evil When choosing between two evils, I always like totry the one I've never tried before. -- Mae West. Excellence Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John Gardner The greatest enemy of excellence is good. Zig Ziglar Don't try to become great; be great now, and discover that excellence is a reward you don't need others to confirm. Guy Finley Excellence is the result
of I am always careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael Fox Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat Riley There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan The excellent becomes the permanent. Jane Addams I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether a field, or a home, or a country. Thornton Wilder Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. Rick Pitino The price of excellence is discipline. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Eddie Robinson If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Excuses
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at
anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin Expectations Experience Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what
a man
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.--Archibald McLeish Expression Facts Failure Failing to plan is planning to fail Alan Lakein 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit
of There is no failure
except in no longer trying. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step Faith Failing Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby Failure is one of life’s greatest teachers…. It forces us to look at what we’re doing and gives us the opportunity to try a new direction Hal Urban Hidden in our failures are sources of growth. Hal Urban Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. Confucius If we’re not willing to risk failure, we’re not deserving of success. Hal Urban
Faith Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Thomas N. Carruther Fall Fantasy Fate Fear All forms of fear produce fatigue. -- Bertrand Russell. There is nothing to be feared in life; all is a gift from God. L. Walkup Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing in life is to be feared. The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. --J. C. F. von Schiller. Action conquers fear. --Peter N. Zarlenga Fear less, hope more; The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from prevailing opinion. Martin Luther King Jr. Fist Fool Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. H.G. Bohn A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . -- Unknown. First Step Force The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. --Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 April 1837 Forgiveness Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.--G. Weatherly Fragrance
Freedom Friendship Every true friend is a glimpse of God. Lucy Larcom When friends meet, hearts warm. Proverb No person is you friend who demands your silence, or
denies Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a
little better. --Edgar Watson Howe A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better for a triple braided cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12 Two are better than one....If one person falls, the other can read out and help. But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anais Nin Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. --Socrates True friends don't spend time gazing into each other's eyes. They may show great tenderness toward each other, but they face the same direction - toward common projects, interests, goals - above all toward a common Lord - C.S.Lewis One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Seneca I find friendship to be the true...restorative cordial. Thomas Jefferson Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. H.G. Bohn Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common. Cicero
Frustrations Future The future is no more uncertain than the present. -- Walt Whitman My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (1904-1989) Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes -- Dan Burrus Since you can't predict the future, create it. Peter
Drucker The reason why most people face the future with Garden We must cultivate our garden. --Voltaire
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. -- Thomas Edison Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Einstein You are a potential genius -- the number of ideas you can A genius is a talented person who does his homework. Thomas Edison Get Getting along The most important single ingredient in the formula of Gift The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence. Sue Ebaugh Time is the most precious gift we can give to another. L Walkup Gift of grace: It is not that you are worthy of the gift, but it is he gift which is worthy of your Creator" J. H. Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations, Discourse 13: "Mysteries of Nature and of Grace." Giving Giving Up Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marilyn vos Savant Glory Goal Goals motivate. John Maxwell All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to do or be. Norman Vincent Peale The most important thing about goals is
having one. A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life. Joanne Bonomi Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller,
wWe
all need lots of powerful long range goals to
help us past
the short term obstacles.--Jim Rohn
Yesterday's passions may not serve tomorrow's goals . Frederic
Hudson Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. Tom Landry God God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson "Intellect" Essays, First Series Going Down/Defeat Golden Rule We have committed the Golden Rule to memory. Now let us commit it to life. Edwin Markham The Golden Rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move. Dr. frank Crane Good He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. Confucius Good is not good, where better is expected. Good enough never is Debbi Field Good Intention Good Nature An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven. Washington Irivng. Gossip Gratitude The best way to show gratitude to God and to the people is to accept everything with joy. Mother Teresa 1910-1997 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. -Cicero
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, and invincible determination can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller, Chaplain to King Charles II of England The qualities of a great man are "vision, integrity,
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common everyday ones and make them great. Napoleon Hill.
The President of the United States hears a hundred voices
Greatness All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. Greg Arnold Some are born great. some achieve greatness, and some have public relations writers. Daniel J. Boorstin Stay focused on your journey to greatness. Les Brown We can do no great things only small things with great love. Mother Teresa When you pursue greatness, you represent the courage that others don't have James Ray Greed Grieve And when we grieve our losses to completion, we grow. Charles Whitfield, M.D. Healing the Child Within Grieving frees us to grow, to begin again, to turn around, to start fresh, One moves from overwhelming loss, to sadness, and to the loneliness of the soul. From thence, one arises like a phoenix. L. Walkup Group People acting together as a group can accomplish things
which no
Growth Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl Buck, To My Daughters, with Love The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don' |
