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Phone: 03 9591 8888

Facsimile: 03 9591 8899 Email: [email protected] www.metropole.com.au www.PropertyUpdate.com.au

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Introduction:

I love inspirational quotes. I enjoy reading them learning from them and sharing them with others.

I use them to inspire myself and my friends.

I share them with my team.

I use them to entertain and I use them in my personal and professional writings

I hope you get same inspiration from these

Enjoy….

Michael Yardney

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing

to be achieved." – Jeremy Kitson

"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." – Walt Disney

"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."

– Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." – Jean De La Fontaine

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" – Ben Franklin

"Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny." – Wayne Oates

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones

you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your

sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain

"Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."

– Unknown

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"We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human

experience." – Gary Zukav

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." – Harvey Mackay

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about

your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still

possible for you to do." – Pope John XXIII

"Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them." – Henry Hoskins

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is

nothing." – Theodore Roosevelt

"If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity." – Loretta Staples

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible." – Thomas Robert Gaines

"Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and

introspection." – Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they

believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." – Norman Vincent Peale

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." – Harvey Mackay

"The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and

succeed." – Lloyd Jones

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." – Martha Grimes

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"When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;

and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." – Joseph Campbell

"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential." – Winston

Churchill

"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult." – Mme. Du Deffand

"Life without risks is not worth living." – Charles A. Lindbergh

"Each of us was born with wings...(and) has the ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do

things beyond our wildest imaginings." – Barbara Stanny

"You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your

heart." – Carole King

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars." – Les Brown

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly

creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap." – Cynthia Heimel

"Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them." – Ann

Landers

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is

all there is." – Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

"To follow, without halt, one aim: That's the secret of success." – Anna Pavlova

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace

to become porcelain." – Mildred Wite Stouven

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"Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a

while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." – Vince Lombardi

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."

– Belva Davis

"Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity." – Earl Nightingale

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." – Harvey Mackay

"You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours." – Gen. Colin

Powell

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." – Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." – Thomas

Alva Edison

"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for." – John A. Shedd

"It takes no more effort to expect the best, than to fear the worst. It's healthier, more productive, and a

lot more fun!" – Philip E. Humbert, PhD

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." – Liz Smith

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things

happen to them. They went out and happened to things." – Elinor Smith

"It doesn't matter what you are thinking or what fear you have, if you just do it. Action is the only thing

that matters…. I can see that at the end of my life, I'm going to look back and say, 'Gosh, I wish I had

taken more action’." – Diana von Welanetz Wentworth

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the

only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead

"We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore." – Muriel Chen

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peace

with himself. What one can be, one must be." – Abraham Maslow

"I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage.…

What is at the summit of courage, I think is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no

earthly thing can break you." – Paula Giddings

"You will never stub your toe by standing still, but the faster you go, the more chance you have of getting

somewhere!" – Charles Kettering

"Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and rids us of the misconception that we are powerless." –

Marsha Sinetar

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities

within us and new beauty waiting to be born." – Dr. Dale Turner

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Unknown

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible." – Charles Caleb Colton

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves." – Thomas Alva

Edison

"The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." – Pierre

Teilhard de Chardin

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"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives." – Annie Dillard

"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference, what people think of you." –

Rumi

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve." – Napolean Hill

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." – Sarah

Bernhardt

"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when

you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." – Doris Lessing

"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live." – Anais Nin

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is

going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself." – Katharine

Hepburn

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish

preparation!" – Jane Austen

"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it." – Charlotte Bronte

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things

we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them." – George Eliot

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get

down to earth." – Pearl S. Buck

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." – Emily Dickinson

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"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." – Clementine Paddleford

"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt." – Suellen Fried

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." – Bill Cosby

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." – Karen Kaiser Clark

"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life." – Queen Margret II of Denmark

"It's the set of the sail, not the blow of the gale that determines your course in life." – Randy Davis

"I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship." – Louisa May Alcott

"Everything changes when you change." – Jim Rohn

"You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great." – Les Brown

"Without continuous personal development you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts

when the person you are, meets the person you could have been." – Eli Cohen

"You can get everything you want if you help enough others get what they want." – Zig Ziglar

"The key to unlocking my potential is within me. It is in the power of my thought, my vision and my

commitment." – Unknown

"Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend

avoiding them, we wouldn't have nearly so much to fear in life." – E. Paul Torrance

"Never, never, never, never give up!" – Winston Churchill

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"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that the warrior takes everything as a

challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse." – Don Juan

"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." – Unknown

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." – Beverly Sills

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up." – Vince Lombardi

"Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing

yourself." – Sara Henderson

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality, they are also dress rehearsals; plans. All

acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for

me to do." – Dorothea Dix

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order

to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You

must first BE who you really are, then, DO what you need to do, in order to HAVE what you want." –

Margaret Young

"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately

fail." – Woodrow T. Wilson

"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying

the basic fundamentals." – Jim Rohn

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and

regular refills." – Peter Davies

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." – Hyman

Rickover

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"Failing does not make us a failure, the only time we do become a failure is when we decide to stop

trying any more." - Bob Proctor

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the

ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. " - Dr. David Burns, Psychiatrist and

Author

“You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go

in the right direction.” - Alvin Toffler

“Time is that quality of nature that keeps everything from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to

be working.” - anonymous

“The farther backwards you look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill

“It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.” - W. Somerset

Maugham

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen

Dowd. New York Times Columnist

"Success is about whom you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to

develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves." - Tom Morris

"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failure." - Charles

Noble

"Life is like a great big grinding wheel. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what

you're made of." - Author Unknown

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it." – Rene Descartes

"An education isn't how much you've committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able

to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't know." - William Feather, Author and

Publisher

"We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the

progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no

learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking

failure - all your life." - John W. Gardner, American Educator and Public Official

“If you don’t know where you are going, you might end up somewhere else” - Yoggi Berra

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The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and

succeed. - Lloyd Jones

"People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they

therefore remain bound."

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one

reason why they can." – Mary Frances Berry

"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So, what does that make today

worth? - Og Mandino

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John

Ruskin, British Artist and Author

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want

happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want

happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else. - Chinese Proverb

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries

off, and does something about it that makes a difference." - Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration.” - James

Allen

“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” - Les Brown

“I don't do it for the money. I've got much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art

form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably

big deals. That's how I get my kicks” - Donald Trump

“Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune” -.Jim Rohn

“In order to do something you've never done, you've got to be someone you've never been” -.Les Brown

"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage." – John F. Kennedy

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good

manners, no matter what fork you use. “- Emily Post, Manners Expert

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't

lost the things that money can't buy." – George Horace Lorimer

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."- Erica Jong, Author

"Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions; it is about understanding the future

consequences of today's decisions." - Gary Ryan Blair

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"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully

equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." – Eric Hoffer

"We can't fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future's all in our heads, fear must be a head

thing” - Tom Payne

"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when

they are not; it helps them to keep trying." - Merry Browne, Poet

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet." -

Thomas Crum, Author and Speaker

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where

the fun is.” - Donald Trump, Real Estate Investor and Author

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus

with you when the limo breaks down." – Oprah Winfrey

"Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make

a move if you are merely optimistic." – The Zurich Axioms

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud,

either." – Leo Burnett

"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We

can be happy with little and miserable with much." – William Dempster Hoard

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things." - Henry Ward Beecher

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anais Nin

"There are people who want to be everywhere at once... and they get nowhere" - Carl Sandburg, Writer

and Poet

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” - Louise Hay

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the

absence of doing it. - Peter Drucker

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them.” -

Henry David Thoreau

“It is never too late to be what we might have been.” - George Eliot

“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be” - Harvey MacKay,

Businessman and Author

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has

happened." – Winston Churchill

"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

"I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did.

Dad's advice? ’Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep’." – Margo Kaufman

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being

young." – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"I always wanted to be somebody. Now I know I should have been more specific." – Lily Tomlin

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." – Unknown"

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry, we shall get there some day." – Winnie the Pooh

"Sit, walk or run, but don't wobble." – Zen saying

"The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges behind you, is that the world is round."–

Labhesh Patel

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." – Colette

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use being a fool about it." – W.C.

Fields

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“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform

every area in your life – and it all begins with your very own power of choice.” - Jim Rohn

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat." – Lily Tomlin

"People that keep stiff upper lips find it damn hard to smile." – Judith Guest

"It’s kind of fun to do the impossible." – Walt Disney

"If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a terrible warning." – Catherine Aird

"Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." – Dorothy

Galyean

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do." – Ethel Barrett

"If you can't be kind, at least be vague." – Judith Martin

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the

wrong thing at the tempting moment." – Dorothy Nevill

"A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." – Nancy

Reagan

"Fun is about as good a habit as there is." – Jimmy Buffett

"Nothing happens until somebody sells something." – Mary Kay Ash

"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward." –

Carol Channing

"If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters." - Abigail Van Buren

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"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." – Mae West

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." – Dolly Parton

"For fast acting relief, try slowing down." – Lily Tomlin

"If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too." – Sue Grafton

"Dance like no one's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one's listening, live like it's

heaven on earth." – William Pukey

"He who laughs, lasts." – Mary Pettibone Poole

"Fate keeps happening." – Anita Loos

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops

snowing." – Phyllis Diller

"Never fear shadows; they simply mean that there's a light shining somewhere nearby." – Unknown

"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories." – Felix

Cohen

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." – Yogi Berra

"I have a photographic memory - but it's usually under-exposed." – Marc Poulin

"I love the confidence that makeup gives me." – Tyra Banks

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"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." –

Shirley MacLaine

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of that fact." – George

Elliot

"The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the

opportunity." – Helen Rowland

"The Definition of Maturity - The ability to stick with a job without being supervised, the ability to carry

money without spending it, and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even." – Abigail

Van Buren

"Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna." – Erma

Bombeck

"I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job." – Roseanne

"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them." – Sue Grafton

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." – Gilda Radner

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by

tying a little noose around your neck?" – Linda Ellerbee

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he

asked for my autograph." – Shirley Temple

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." – Bob Hope

"I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"

– Tom Lehrer

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"I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: ‘What good would

that do?’" – Ronnie Shakes

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve

minutes one is interrupted by dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." – Rod Serling

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found

and stopped." – Sam Levenson

"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 which you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done." – Ernie Kovacs

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; A bad novel tells us the truth about its author." – G. K.

Chesterton

"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United States, unless you count the increasing

popularity of the nine millimeter bullet." – Dave Barry

"This isn't right. It isn't even wrong." – Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." – Franklin P. Jones

"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now, blue-green meat, that's REALLY BAD for you." – Tommy Smothers

"When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart

enough to get out of jury duty." – Norm Crosby

"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist." – Aaron

Machado

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"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." – Henny

Youngman

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." – Darrin Weinberg

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life in which you will be happy to hear

that the phone is for you." – Fran Lebowitz

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." – H.L. Mencken

"It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble. It's the things you know that just ain't

so." – Artimus Ward

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to

attack you because you're a vegetarian." – Dennis Wholey

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." – Unknown

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a

minute...and it's longer than an hour. That's relativity." – Albert Einstein

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red

stoplight. The truly wise person is colour blind." – Albert Schweitzer

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." – Paul Fix

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Unknown

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his

questions." – Naguib Mahfouz

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" – Albert Einstein

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"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention." – Diane Sawyer

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something." – Wilson Mizner

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that I'm

not blonde." – Dolly Parton

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36

hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels GOOD for 36 hours." – Rita Rudner

"Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a

woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel." – Bella Abzug

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." – Gloria Steinem

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and

just visit now and then." – Katharine Hepburn

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." – Anne Morrow

Lindbergh

"Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn't." – Erica Jong

"It's the good girls who keep the diaries. The bad girls never have the time." – Tallulah Bankhead

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time." – Edith Wharton

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat

just one of the pieces." – Judith Viorst

"It is better to be looked over than overlooked." – Mae West

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." – Anna Freud

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"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense." – Mignon McLaughlin

"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." – Alice

Roosevelt Longworth

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." – Albert Einstein

"A year from now you may wish you had started today." – Karen Lamb

"Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute." – Unknown

"Life is too short to be little." – Benjamin Disraeli

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." – Mark Twain

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world." – Anne Frank

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." – Mother Teresa

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." – Ayn

Rand

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expected to give...

Which is everything." – Katherine Hepburn

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." – Jonathan Winters

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." –

Calvin Coolidge

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes

of mind!" – William James

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"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow!" – Norman Vincent Peale

"Try not to become a man (person) of success but rather try to become a man of value." – Albert Einstein

"We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest

tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined." – N. Scott Momaday

"What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts and doubt their beliefs.… Why don't we just

decide to have no doubts, and believe our beliefs! Fear and worry is just the misuse of the creative

powers we originally got to dream." – Jannie Putter

"When the light has sharply faded and you have lost your way, let another's love guide you. It can turn

blackest night into day." – Kevin Meyers

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." – Marianne

Williamson

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities

within us and new beauty waiting to be born." – Dale E. Turner

"I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin

you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment." – Doug Hall

"Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination." – Carol Lloyd

"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [your] values and goals...Think of

using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." – Marsha Sinetar

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." – Carl Sandburg

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them

was superior to circumstance." – Bruce Barton

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T. S. Eliot

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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." –

George Bernard Shaw

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." – Bertrand Russell

"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." – Albert Einstein

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less

important whether I am afraid." – Audre Lorde

"To err is human, but it feels divine." – Mae West

"Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time,

the distinction between work and play dissolves." – Shakti Gawain

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what

we can be." – Morris Adler

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your

innermost beliefs and convictions." - Brian Tracy

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." – Muhammad Ali

"Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can happen to you." – Dan Zadra

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent

left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’." – Erma Bombeck

"Never underestimate the power of passion." – Eve Sawyer

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"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about

what you can unleash." – Harriet Rubin

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but (instead) someone." – Coco

Chanel

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." – Elizabeth

Kubler-Ross

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly." – Lauren Bacall

"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - ‘If I had

my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.’" – Joan McIntosh

"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. It is only a question of loving them enough." –

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right. Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it." – George

Eliot

"Parents can only give good advice or put one on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's

character lies in their own hands." – Anne Frank

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not

hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn." –

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting

anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice." – Ellen Glasgow

"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees." – Karle Wilson

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"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

– Erica Jong

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." –

Anne Frank

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of

the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." – Louise Bogan

"There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that

keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." – Martha Graham

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." – Erica Jong

"Don't be prisoner of your past, but the architect of your future." – Unknown

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward

getting it." – Mae West

"I want to do it because I want to do it." – Amelia Earhart

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Now." – Joan Baez

"You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear

in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." –

Pamela Vaull Starr

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down,

but the staying down." – Mary Pickford

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"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." – Ruth Gordon

"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win." – Shelley

Long

"When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit

those possibilities hold less and less sway over her." – Marianne Williamson

"We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world." – Mother

Teresa

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of

others." – Pericles

"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose

one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." – Viktor Frankl

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." – Louise Hay

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." – Richard Bach

"Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is." – David O. McKay

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In

our response lies our growth and our freedom." – Stephen Covey

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." – Dostoyevsky

"Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond

measure." – Marianne Williamson

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams;

who looks inside, awakens." – Carl Jung

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"I'm never sure until I've begun putting words on the page, and they suddenly start pulling me along,

where before I'd been pushing them, that it's going to work this time, that it's going to catch fire..." –

Joan Bolker

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else

is . . . impossible." – Richard Bach

"Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts." – Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them" – Josie Bisset

"For me, security is not knowing what's going to happen. Because if I don't know, it could be terrific." –

Gloria Steinem

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." – John Dewey

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." – Wayne Dyer

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." – Louis

L'Amour

"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

"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances." – Julia Soul

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it

is that you will achieve the security that you desire." – Brian Tracy

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." – James Broughton

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"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." – Thomas Merton

"The strongest single factor in prosperity consiousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing

you deserve it, believing you will get it." – Jerry Gillies

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." – Rabindranath Tagore

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." – Ivy

Baker Priest

“One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The

black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest

moment comes the light." – Joseph Campbell

"Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." – Elaine St. James

"Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening." – Gertrude Stein

"It only takes one person to change your life -- you." – Ruth Casey

"Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions." – Virginia Casey

"Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter 1. We have yet to write the

book." – Lois Wyse

"God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." – Mary Kay Ash

"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until

that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every

breath, is a gift from God." – Mary Manin Morrissey

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go

into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and

build your wings on the way down." – Ray Bradbury

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"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, Film Producer

"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. When

you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two." - Jim Rohn

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides."

- Margaret Thatcher

"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever

doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a

positive forcefield of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people

that you want to be." - Brian Tracy

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having

problems is a problem." – Theodore Rubin

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about

him." - Leo Aikman

"The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited

by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy

1917-1963, Thirty-Fifth American President

“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his

achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.” - Eric Butterworth

“None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments

as their daily bread...The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” -

Bernard Baruch

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite." - Robert

Half , Executive

Seek mentors who have done what you desire to do. Seek mentors who have become what you desire to

be.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"Most successful men have not achieved distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented

to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." – Bruce Barton

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but

by perseverance." - H. Jackson Brown

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“For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it

a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.” – Brian Tracy

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." – Robert

Frost

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it

was." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. First Lady

"Winners are people who have lost, but lost well and moved on. They responded well to their defeats and

didn't let their losses defeat them." -- unknown

"I was asking myself why I was having these obstacles in my life...then I suddenly became aware that

these obstacles were my life, and I began to enjoy them." - John Kanary Author of "Breaking Through

Limitations"

"Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy,but where does it get you?" - Bob Gass,

minister “Don't be humble. You're not that great.”' - Golda Meir

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” - Mark Twain

“I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on.” - Oscar Levant

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell

you where they're going.” - P. O'Brien

“You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.” - Jay Leno

“I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.” - Linda Ellerbee'

“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over

again.” - Joan Rivers

"Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming, business consultant and

author

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the

ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life." - Dr. David Burns, Psychiatrist and

Author

'You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in

the right direction.' - Alvin Toffler

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'Time is that quality of nature that keeps everything from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to

be working.' - anonymous

"When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do." -Zig Ziglar

"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

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James

Baldwin

"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist." - J. Harold Wilkins

“The only real limits a man or woman has are those of vision” - Anonymous

"Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect, and whistle a happy tune, and no one will suspect I'm

afraid." - Anna, in The King and I, by Rogers and Hammerstein

“Things do not change, we do - Henry David Thoreau

I am a part of all that I have met - Alfred Lord Tennyson

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average - M.H. Alderson

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom - Michel de

Montaigne

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information - Benjamin

Disraeli

If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong -Charles Merrill Smith

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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss." - David Eddings

"Everyone hears only what he understands." - Goethe

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"Where many people go wrong in trying to reach their goals is in constantly looking for the big hit, the

home run, the magic answer that suddenly transforms their dreams into reality. The problem is that the

big hit never comes without a great deal of little hits first. Success in most things comes not from some

gigantic stroke of fate, but from simple, incremental progress." - Andrew Wood

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of

a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you

are not alone in the world - Sidney Lovett

"There is a great person, who makes everyone feel small. But the real great person is the person who

makes every person feel great." - G.K. Chesterton

"When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future." - Zig Ziglar

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond

measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be

brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won't feel insecure around you” -.Nelson Mandela

“The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and

then help that best into the fullest expression”. - Allen J. Boone

“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.” - Og Mandino

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that

the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.” - Henry Miller

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“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” - Galileo {1564-1642

Italian Astronomer & Mathematician}

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill

"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

“When obstacles arise, change your direction to reach your goal, not the decision to get there." - Zig

Ziggler

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is

in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever” -

Isak Dinesen

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else

and stops trying." -.John Burroughs

"Failure is perhaps the greatest key to success. More specifically, your response to failure is the real key.

Growth in an organization only comes with stretching and risk taking. It is up to the leader to create a

healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of

the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.” - Andrew Harvey

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what

keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." -

Honore De Balzac

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. " - Orson Welles

One of the greatest mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the

smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world. - Source unknown

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old - Mary Waldrip

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"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man

on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."

- Carl Schurz

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is

going to take more than one night - Charlie Brown

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps

the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." -.Harold

B. Melchart

"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them." - Joanna Field

Most people underestimate their ability, but overestimate their performance. - Source unknown

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between

damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." - Timothy Bentley

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the

world. - Source unknown

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without

knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. - Gilda Radner

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some

difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist -Teilhard de

Chardin

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch - There’s always free cheese in the mousetrap”

“I can sympathise with everything except suffering” – Oscar Wilde

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“Let us never negotiate out of fear, because it is never fear to negotiate” – John F. Kennedy.

To a distressed person who came to him for help the Master said, "Do you really want a cure" "If I didn't,

would I bother to come to you?" The inquirer asked. "Probably." He said, "I find that most people come,

not for a cure (that's painful), but mainly for relief. People who want a cure, provided they can have it

without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change." - Anthony

de Mello, S.J.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. -Will Rogers

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the

darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kübler-

Ross

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of

mind." - William James {1842-1909 American Psychologist & Author}

"Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh." - Henry David Thoreau

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." -

Katherine Mansfield

'You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely

challenging problems.' - Mark Victor Hansen

"No matter where you stand in your business, career or life [and no matter what challenges you now

face] when you make the conscious decision to become a person of action [rather than being indecisive]

you instantly turn the tide of life in your favour." - Andrew Wood

“Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of

yesterday." - Brian Tracy

"Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it

was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not

letting them rule you." - Missy Good

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"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you

can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will happen when you act upon them." -

Jim Rohn

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend

each one wisely” - E James Rohn

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in

the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a

dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope”. - Sanskrit text

“Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.” - Mark Victor Hansen

"Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that

Lincoln’s dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, ‘Be somebody, Abe’." -

Wilfred A. Peterson

"Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely on what you think." -

Dale Carnegie

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own

ignorance.” - Will Durant

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves” - William

Arthur Ward

"I’m not a has-been. I’m a will-be." - Lauren Bacall, Actress

You have the power within you to attract to yourself all that you could ever want" - Wayne Dyer

A statistician is a person who can go directly from an unwarranted assumption to a preconceived

conclusion.

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“If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a

playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it

without working for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a lifetime of hard work, people call

him a fool who never got anything out of life”. - Vic Oliver

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." -

Colin Wilson, Author

“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I

realised that I was never going to grow up -- that growing is an ever ongoing process.” - M Scott Peck

When people talk statistics, they always like to talk about averages. Average this and average that. The

thing to remember is that the average is exactly halfway between the best and the worst. It is the best of

the worst and the worst of the best.

"In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come,

you're prepared." - Katherine Dunham {American Dancer}

As a person thinketh... "All that a person achieves and all that they fail to achieve is the direct result of

their own thinking."

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can

control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom

that comes from being in charge of yourself. " - Robert F. Bennett, U.S. Senator

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” - Plato

Greek Philosopher.

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my

dreams." - Dr. Jonas Salk

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there

are those who turn one into the other." - Douglaus Everet

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"I might have been born in a hovel but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars." - Jacqueline

Cochran

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." - Doug Ivester

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can

have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." - Henry Ford, Industrialist

"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for” -

Florence Scovel Shinn {1871-1940 Author}

All Are Significant

During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious

student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the

woman who cleans the school?"

Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired

and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank.

Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade.

"Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They

deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say 'hello'."

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." - Sally Koch

{American Educator}

“If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind." -

Jeffrey Gitomer

"Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time." -

– Brian Tracy

"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." - W.

Somerset Maugham

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just getting the job done.' Excel!" -

Tom Hopkins

“You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you’ll need to

change.” - Mark Victor Hansen

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To be successful you've got to have a dream, a vision, a burning passion, a magnificent obsession. This

dream, goal, obsession has to become your prime motivator.

When you discover who you are, and determine where you want to go, and everything else falls into place

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." - Jim Rohn

"You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already

are." - Brian Tracy

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." -

Benjamin Disraeli

Contentment

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome

adversity." - Lou Holtz

There are nine requisites for contented living: health enough to make work a pleasure; wealth enough to

support your needs; strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them; grace enough to confess your

sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished; charity enough to see

some good in your neighbour; love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; faith enough to

make real the things of God; hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future - Johann

Wolfgang von Goethe

“He who knows that enough is enough will have enough.” - Lao-Tzu

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Demin

The average reader reads 300 words a minute. If you read 300 words a minute for 15 minutes a day,

every day, 365 days a year, you will have read 1,642,500 words during that year, or 22 full-length books.

15 Minutes a day means 2 books a month, more than 20 a year, or 1000 books or more during your

lifetime! A survey taken in 1995 revealed that 44% of American adults do not read a single book in a year

- M & R Shook

“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.” -

Robert Hutchinson

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He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has

learned already, may be said to have a love of learning……Confucius

“The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch anything, you can't stop. If

you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.” - Gladys Taber

“Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their

frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers

to ourselves.” - Sydney J Harris

“Self-knowledge comes to us only in the dark times, when we are stripped of illusion and naked to truth.”

- Mary Craig

“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so”. - Josh

Billings

“To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom.” - Maha Sthavira Sangharakshita

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous

qualities, progressive ideas.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills." - Jim Rohn

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided people.” -

Martin Luther King, Jr

“Life, nature and God only say ‘yes’ to you, but what are you asking for?” - Mark Victor Hansen

“What’s possible exceeds what’s impossible. Think about it. Do all you can do that is possible today, and

in your tomorrow, what was impossible will be possible.” - Mark Victor Hansen

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life

really takes place.” - Barbara De Angelis

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"For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is

familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting." - Nido Qubein

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three

thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the

fund of general enjoyment.” - Sydney Smith

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the

darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kübler-

Ross

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close

resemblance to the first.” - Ronald Reagan

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising

to protect each from the other.” - Oscar Ameringer

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and

applying the wrong remedy.” - Ernest Benn

“Everyone who's taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and

does something about it who makes a difference." - Nolan Bushnell

"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

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”- James

Baldwin

"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist." - J. Harold Wilkins

“The only real limits a man or woman has are those of vision” - Anonymous

"Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect, and whistle a happy tune, and no one will suspect I'm

afraid." - Anna, in The King and I, by Rogers and Hammerstein

“Things do not change, we do” - Henry David Thoreau

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“I am a part of all that I have met” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“If at first you don't succeed you're running about average” - M.H. Alderson

“Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom” - Michel de

Montaigne

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information” - Benjamin

Disraeli

“If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong.” - Charles Merrill Smith

“No day in which you learn something is a complete loss." - David Eddings

"Everyone hears only what he understands." - Goethe

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"Where many people go wrong in trying to reach their goals is in constantly looking for the big hit, the

home run, the magic answer that suddenly transforms their dreams into reality. The problem is that the

big hit never comes without a great deal of little hits first. Success in most things comes not from some

gigantic stroke of fate, but from simple, incremental progress.” - Andrew Wood

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn

of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that

you are not alone in the world” - Sidney Lovett

"There is a great person who makes everyone feel small. But the real great person is the person who

makes every person feel great." - G.K. Chesterton

"When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future." - Zig Ziglar

“The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and

then help that best into the fullest expression.” - Allen J. Boone

“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.” - Og Mandino

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that

the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.” - Henry Miller

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself” - Galileo {1564-1642

Italian Astronomer & Mathematician

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."…Winston Churchill

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"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

“When obstacles arise, change your direction to reach your goal, not the decision to get there." - Zig

Ziggler

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is

in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” -

Isak Dinesen

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else

and stops trying." - John Burroughs

"Failure is perhaps the greatest key to success. More specifically, your response to failure is the real key.

Growth in an organization only comes with stretching and risk taking. It is up to the leader to create a

healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of

the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.” - Andrew Harvey

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what

keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." -

Honore De Balzac

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.” - Orson Welles

“One of the greatest mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the

smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world.” - Source unknown

“Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.” - Mary Waldrip

"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man

on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."

- Carl Schurz

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is

going to take more than one night.” - Charlie Brown

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo

Emerson

“A man climbs because he needs to climb, because that is the way he is made. Rock and ice and wind and

the great blue canopy of the sky are not all that he finds upon the mountain-tops. He discovers things

about his own body and mind that he had almost forgotten in the day to day, year to year, routine of

living. He learns what his legs are for, what his lungs are for, what the wise men of old meant by

'refreshment of the spirit. ” - James Ramsey Ullman

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"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps

the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." - Harold

B. Melchart

"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them." - Joanna Field

“Most people underestimate their ability, but overestimate their performance.” - Source unknown

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between

damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." - Timothy Bentley

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the

world.” - Source unknown

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without

knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” - Gilda Radner

“The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make

some difference that you lived at all.” - Leo Rosten

“Masters in the art of living draw no sharp distinction between their work and their play, their labour

and their leisure, their minds and their bodies, their education and their recreation. They hardy know

which is which. They simply pursue their vision of excellence through whatever they are doing and leave

others to determine whether they are working or playing. To themselves they always seem to be doing

both.” - Source unknown

“They are able because they 'think' they are able” - Virgil - The Æneid

"Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely on what you think." -

Dale Carnegie

“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.” - Teilhard

de Chardin

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch - There’s always free cheese in the mousetrap.”

“I can sympathise with everything except suffering.” - Oscar Wilde

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, because it is never fear to negotiate.”- John F. Kennedy

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” - Will Rogers

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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the

darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kübler-

Ross,

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of

mind."…William James {1842-1909 American Psychologist & Author}

"Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh." - Henry David Thoreau

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." -

Katherine Mansfield

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely

challenging problems.” - Mark Victor Hansen

"No matter where you stand in your business, career or life [and no matter what challenges you now

face] when you make the conscious decision to become a person of action [rather than being indecisive]

you instantly turn the tide of life in your favour." - Andrew Wood

“Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of

yesterday." - Brian Tracy

"Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it

was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not

letting them rule you." - Missy Good

"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you

can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will happen when you act upon them." -

Jim Rohn

'Carpe Diem'. Sieze the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. Spoken by the actor, Robin Williams,

as a schoolmaster in the screenplay, 'The Dead Poet's Society'.

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend

each one wisely.” - E James Rohn

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in

the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a

dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope” - Sanskrit text

“Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.” - Mark Victor Hansen

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"Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that

Lincoln’s dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, ‘Be somebody, Abe.” -

Wilfred A. Peterson

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our

own ignorance.” - Will Durant

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their

attitudes of mind." - William James

"Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." - J. Philip Everson

"I’m not a has-been. I’m a will-be." - Lauren Bacall, Actress

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for

changing them." - Dr. Denis Waitley

“You have the power within you to attract to yourself all that you could ever want." - Wayne Dyer

"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do it's a different kind of life." - Buckminster

Fuller

A statistician is a person who can go directly from an unwarranted assumption to a preconceived

conclusion.

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory." - Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are

difficult.” - Seneca

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." -

Colin Wilson, Author

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”…Omar Nelson Bradley

“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I

realised that I was never going to grow up -- that growing is an ever ongoing process”…M Scott Peck

“My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.”…Jim

Rohn

“What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.”…Afghani proverb

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“When people talk statistics, they always like to talk about averages. Average this and average that. The

thing to remember is that the average is exactly halfway between the best and the worst. It is the best of

the worst and the worst of the best.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”…Abraham

Lincoln

"In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimetre at a time, gradually when bigger things come,

you're prepared.” …Katherine Dunham {American Dancer}

"To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the

struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life."…Sir William Osler

As a person thinketh... "All that a person achieves and all that they fail to achieve is the direct result of

their own thinking."

“Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will

by being frustrated by it.”…Jim Rohn

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can

control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom

that comes from being in charge of yourself."…Robert F. Bennett, U.S. Senator

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors”…Jonas Edward Salk

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”…Plato

Greek Philosopher

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my

dreams."…Dr. Jonas Salk

“If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably,

greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest

tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity.”…Cavett Roberts

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man or a woman bears with composure one heavy mischance

after another, not because he or she does not feel them, but because he or she is a person of high and

heroic temper”…Aristotle

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there

are those who turn one into the other."…Douglaus Everett

"The mark of a Champion, in any endeavor, is their pride in preparing for their competition. For the

businessman, as well as the athlete, it's reading the right books, listening to the right tapes/CDs,

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attending the right seminars and choosing the right mentors and coaches. Champions are built, not born.

There is no off season for someone on the road to being a champion. There is only preparation and

competition."…Greg Werner

"I might have been born in a hovel but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars."…Jacqueline

Cochran

"It's always too soon to quit!"…Norman Vincent Peale

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams."…Doug Ivester

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the

impossible."…Saint Francis of Assisi

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can

have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."…Henry Ford, Industrialist

"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared

for”…Florence Scovel Shinn {1871-1940 Author}

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."…Thomas

Jefferson

"I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy”…Source unknown

“Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as

possible."…Eric Hoffer

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."…Sally Koch

"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to

prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they

are, not in being better than someone else."…Nathaniel Branden

"Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the

courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."…Orrison Swett

Marden

"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves."… Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your

mind."…Jeffrey Gitomer

"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your

innermost beliefs and convictions."…Brian Tracy

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”Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no

control over your value, but you do." -- Jim Rohn

"Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the

time."…Brian Tracy

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."…Carl W. Buechner

"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it."…W.

Somerset Maugham

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only

basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."…P.J. O'Rourke

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just getting the job done.'

Excel!"…Tom Hopkins

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their

tombstones, speak them rather now instead."…Anna Cummins

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes

when dreams are surrendered to reality."…James Michener

“You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you’ll need to

change.”…Mark Victor Hansen

“What’s possible exceeds what’s impossible. Think about it. Do all you can do that is possible today, and

in your tomorrow, what was impossible will be possible.”…Mark Victor Hansen

“Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize

that result.”…Mark Victor Hansen

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it

daily."…Zig Ziglar

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what

you think."…Dale Carnegie

“To be successful you've got to have a dream, a vision, a burning passion, a magnificent obsession. This

dream, goal, obsession has to become your prime motivator.”

“When you discover who you are, and determine where you want to go, and everything else falls into

place.”

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed."…Jim Rohn

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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we

do not see the one which has opened for us."…Helen Keller {1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author &

Motivator}

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better

than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not

what you were never made for."…Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Style is being yourself, but on purpose."…Patricia Fripp

"You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already

are."…Brian Tracy

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their

own."…Benjamin Disraeli

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome

adversity."…Lou Holtz

“There are nine requisites for contented living: health enough to make work a pleasure; wealth enough

to support your needs; strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them; grace enough to confess

your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished; charity enough to

see some good in your neighbour; love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; faith

enough to make real the things of God; hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the

future”…Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success,

happiness, health and greater prosperity. It’s like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a

world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled towards some great good.”…Brian Tracey

“He who knows that enough is enough will have enough”…Lao-Tzu

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."…W. Edwards Demin

“The average reader reads 300 words a minute. If you read 300 words a minute for 15 minutes a day,

every day, 365 days a year, you will have read 1,642,500 words during that year, or 22 full-length books.

15 Minutes a day means 2 books a month, more than 20 a year, or 1000 books or more during your

lifetime! A survey taken in 1995 revealed that 44% of American adults do not read a single book in a

year.”

“Let others lead small lives, but not you.

Let others argue over small things, but not you.”

”Let others cry over small hurts but not you.

Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”…Jim Rohn

“The other day it was my turn to prepare dinner so I asked my wife to go over to the local market and

buy some organic vegetables.”

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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and

listen.”…Sir Winston Churchill

“She came back rather upset. When I asked her what was wrong she said, "I don't think I like that

produce guy. I went and looked around for your organic vegetables and I couldn't find any. So I asked

him where the organic vegetables were.”

“He didn't know what I was talking about so I said, 'These vegetables are for my husband. Have they

been sprayed with any poisonous chemicals?”

“And he said, 'No, ma'am. You'll have to do that yourself.'…Source unknown

“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-

righteousness”…Robert Hutchinson

“A banker is someone who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, and takes it back when it

starts to rain”…Mark Twain

"Here at First National, you're not just a number -- you're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers,

another dash, and another number."…Source unknown

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve service for bank customers, please press

3."…Alice Kahn

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in

order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've

chosen to go”…Richard David Bach

“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”…uknown

“We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from

advantage and indeed perhaps more”…Pearl S. Buck

“Every man dies; not every man lives.”…William Wallace, Braveheart

“He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has

learned already, may be said to have a love of learning”…Confucius

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer

all day”…Source unknown

“The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch anything, you can't stop. If

you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite”…Gladys Taber

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“All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot

do”…David Graydon

“Isn't it strange that princes and kings,

And clowns that caper in sawdust rings,

And common folk like you and me

Are builders of eternity?

To each is given a book of rules,

A shapeless mass and a bag of tools,

And each must fashion e’re life has flown,

A stumbling block or a stepping stone”…Source unknown

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain

dormant.”…Horace 65-8 B.C.

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”…Pablo Picasso

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human

journey”…Stephen Covey

“In the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse.

You may be dead.”…Gelett Burgess

“Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their

frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers

to ourselves”…Sydney J Harris

“It all matters: everything you see, hear, watch, say, and think. Therefore, be the gate-keeper of your

mind and choose carefully what goes in.”…Maurice Lavigne

“Self-knowledge comes to us only in the dark times, when we are stripped of illusion and naked to

truth”…Mary Craig

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”…Thomas H. Huxley

“Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.”…Mary C. Crowley

“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so”…Josh

Billings

“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”…John Sculley

“To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom.”…Maha Sthavira Sangharakshita

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“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”…A. L. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous

qualities, progressive ideas”…Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."… Jim Rohn

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided

people”…Martin Luther King, Jr

“Life, nature and God only say ‘yes’ to you, but what are you asking for?”…Mark Victor Hansen

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life

really takes place”…Barbara De Angelis

"For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is

familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting."…Nido Qubein

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three

thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the

fund of general enjoyment.”…Sydney Smith

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the

darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."…Elizabeth Kübler-

Ross

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close

resemblance to the first”…Ronald Reagan

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to

your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of

you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity”…Arthur James Balfour {1848-1930 British Prime

Minister}

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising

to protect each from the other”…Oscar Ameringer

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and

applying the wrong remedy”…Ernest Benn

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world." … Anne Frank

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." … Mother Teresa

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

…Ayn Rand

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"Imagine." …John Lennon

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expected to

give... Which is everything." …Katherine Hepburn

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes

me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't

have it in the beginning." …Mahatma Gandhi

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

…Calvin Coolidge

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his

attitudes of mind!" …William James

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow!" …Norman Vincent Peale

"Try not to become a man (person) of success but rather try to become a man of value." …Albert

Einstein

"We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest

tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined." … N. Scott Momaday

"What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts and doubt their beliefs.… Why don't we

just decide to have no doubts, and believe our beliefs! Fear and worry is just the misuse of the

creative powers we originally got to dream." …Jannie Putter

"When the light has sharply faded and you have lost your way, let another's love guide you. It can

turn blackest night into day." …Kevin Meyers

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." …Marianne

Williamson

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities

within us and new beauty waiting to be born." …Dale E. Turner

"I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and

spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment."

…Doug Hall

"Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination." …Carol Lloyd

"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [your] values and goals...Think

of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." …Marsha Sinetar

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." …Carl Sandburg

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside

them was superior to circumstance." …Bruce Barton

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." …T. S. Eliot

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why

not." …George Bernard Shaw

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." …Bertrand Russell

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"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."… Albert Einstein

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and

less important whether I am afraid." …Audre Lorde

"Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the

time, the distinction between work and play dissolves." …Shakti Gawain

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be

what we can be." …Morris Adler

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." …Eleanor Roosevelt

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." …Muhammad Ali

"Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can happen to you." …Dan

Zadra

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of

talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’." …Erma Bombeck

"Never underestimate the power of passion." …Eve Sawyer

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is

about what you can unleash." …Harriet Rubin

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." …Helen Keller

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but (instead) someone." ..Coco

Chanel

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has

purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."

…Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly." …Lauren Bacall

"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - ‘If I

had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.’" …Joan McIntosh

"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. It is only a question of loving them

enough." …Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right. Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."

…George Eliot

"Parents can only give good advice or put one on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's

character lies in their own hands." …Anne Frank

"Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting

anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice." …Ellen Glasgow

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in,

therein to be content." …Helen Keller

"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 which you think you cannot do." …Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees." …Karle Wilson

"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it

leads." …Erica Jong

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

…Anne Frank

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty

of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." …Louise Bogan

"There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest

that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." …Martha Graham

"Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character." …Anthony Robbins

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks, as if

they were great and noble." …Helen Keller

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." …Eleanor Roosevelt

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." ..Erica

Jong

"Don't be prisoner of your past, but the archetect of your future." …Unknown

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward

getting it." …Mae West

"I want to do it because I want to do it." …Amelia Earhart

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to

live. Now." …Joan Baez

"You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look

fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." …Eleanor Roosevelt

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the

goal."…Pamela Vaull Starr

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling

down, but the staying down."… Mary Pickford

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." …Ruth Gordon

"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."

…Shelley Long

"When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would

limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her." …Marianne Williamson

"We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world." …Mother

Teresa

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives

of others."… Pericles

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"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to

choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." …Viktor Frankl

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." …Louise Hay

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." …Richard Bach

"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

"Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is." …David O. McKay

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom." …Stephen Covey

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." …Dostoyevsky

"Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond

measure." …Marianne Williamson

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside,

dreams; who looks inside, awakens." …Carl Jung

"I'm never sure until I've begun putting words on the page, and they suddenly start pulling me along,

where before I'd been pushing them, that it's going to work this time, that it's going to catch fire..."

…Joan Bolker

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything

else is . . . impossible." …Richard Bach

"Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts." …Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. " …Josie Bisset

"For me, security is not knowing what's going to happen. Because if I don't know, it could be

terrific." …Gloria Steinem

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." …John Dewey

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." …Wayne Dyer

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ..Louis

L'Amour

"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

"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances." …Julia Soul

"The soul enters thru the wound of defeat." …K. Bly

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more

likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." …Brian Tracy

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." …James Broughton

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"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." …Thomas Merton

"The strongest single factor in prosperity consiousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it,

believing you deserve it, believing you will get it." …Jerry Gillies

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." …Norman Vincent Peale

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." …Rabindranath Tagore

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the

beginning."…Ivy Baker Priest

" One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the

darkest moment comes the light." …Joseph Campbell

"Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." …Elaine St. James

"Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening." …Gertrude Stein

"It only takes one person to change your life -- you." …Ruth Casey

"Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions." …Virginia

Casey

"Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter 1. We have yet to write

the book." …Lois Wyse

"God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." …Mary Kay Ash

"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love

until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute,

every breath, is a gift from God." …Mary Manin Morrissey

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd

never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs

all the time and build your wings on the way down." …Ray Bradbury