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As you go the way of life you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
Native American Proverb


I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Ф
Thomas A. Edison

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled with something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale


The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr

УYou must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated risk, and act.. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.Ф
Katharine Butler Hathaway


If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher


Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.
Anthony Robbins

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith


Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Ф
Mark Twain

If youТre climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time.sometimes you donТt think youТre progressing until you step back and see how high youТve really gone.
Donny Osmond


I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.Ф
Walter Annenberg


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

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it, put your whole soul into itЕ.every bit of energy, ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.Ф
John Ruskin


Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal: Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson




DonТt undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Brian Dyson

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.Ф
Erastus Wiman


Decisiveness is a common characteristic of all successful men and women.
Brian Tracy

The key to finding beauty is to know where to look.
Seigfried and Roy

The only things in your control are your thoughts and then your actions. Positive, powerful thoughts lead to positive, powerful actions, and when done with repeated consistency this cycle leads to greatness. Dream it! Pray for it! Believe it! Work for it! And then be ready when it happens!Ф
Greg Werner

Lucky people are simply those who think continually about what they want and then attact it into their lives.
Brian Tracy


Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb

УBefore you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.Ф
Winston Churchill

УYour future depends on many things, but mostly on you.Ф
Frank Tyger


You are where you are today because youТve chosen to be there.Ф
Harry Browne

Your mind doesnТt know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mind acts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.
Zig Ziglar


People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I donТt 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 canТt find them, make them.Ф
George Bernard Shaw


Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard


Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.Ф
Jonathan Swift

УKnow how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.Ф
Plutarch

УImagination is more important than knowledge.Ф

Albert Einstein

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Ф
Colin Powell

There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind the choice you make, makes you.
Anonymous

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming and encouraging your greatest asset.
Tom Hopkins

I donТt know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try please everyone.Ф
Bill Cosby

Fear doesnТt exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

Our choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
Brian Tracy



Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.

Albert Einstien


"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
Duguet

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

People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. (To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.)
James Allen


The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."
Henry Ford


Your body is your vehicle for life. As long as you are here, live in it. Love, honor, respect and cherish it, treat it well and it will serve you in kind.
Suzy Prudden


"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."
Katherine Mansfield


When we create harmony in our minds and hearts we will find it in our lives. The inner creates the outer..always.
Louise L. Hay


Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Karen Horney



While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity and from depression to happiness and joy if you use it properly."
Brian Tracy

"Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself; it means how he has bettered himself not how he has bettered his fortune. The great question of life is not `What have I?' but `What am I?'"
William George Jordan


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore."
Anonymous

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking."
Phaedrus



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


The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden


Why are so many people afraid to make even the smallest effort to help others? One of the most common reasons is that they are just embarrassed. They're afraid of being rejected or appearing foolish. But you know what? If you want to play the game of life and win, you've got to play full out. You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work. Otherwise, how can you innovate, how can you grow, how can you discover who you really are?
Anthony Robbins


"Even the longest journey begins with the first step"
Chinese Proverb

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
Thomas Carlyle


"There is no effort without error and shortcomings"
Theodre Roosevelt


If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius


Relationships flourish when people ask the right questions about where potential conflicts exist and how to support each other rather than tearing each other down. Communities benefit when leaders ask the right questions about what is most important and how citizens can work together toward shared goals. For whatever area of your life you want to improve, there are questions you can ask that will provide you with answers solutions that can catapult you and those you love to a higher level of success and enjoyment.

Anthony Robbins



"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
Margaret Thatcher

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates


"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."
Ray Bradbury


Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart


"We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard."
Fernando Flores


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Mark Twain


Goal setting starts with a pad of paper, a pen and you.
Gary Ryan Blair


"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
LaoTsze


Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. . . . Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
Heraclitus


An ounce of discretion is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
Italian Proverb


You give your best not because you need to impress people. You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work.
Andrew Matthews


"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."
Sydney Smith


"Faith without challenge is nothing."
Iyanla Vanzant

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus


I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson


"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."
James Ling


"I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at."
Wilson Mizner


Out of clutter find simplicity.
From Discord make harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Einstein's Three Rules Of Work


"If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve."
Anthony Robbins



If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
Abraham H. Maslow


If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie


"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
Sam Levenson


"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
Wayne Dyer


"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure."
Gary Ryan Blair


The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.Ф
Andrew Ross

УI learnedЕ that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Ф
Brenda Ueland

УWe are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.Ф
Eric Hoffer

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.Ф
Aristophanes


Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.Ф
Albert Einstein

УEach golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins upЕ Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunser.Ф
Alonzo Newton Benn


Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.Ф
Buddha


УDo not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.Ф
laluddin Rumi


I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa



УIf you donТt like something, change it. If you canТt change it, change your attitude. DonТt complain.Ф
Maya Angelou

УAll glory comes from daring to begin.Ф
William Shakespeare


The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right for you. Live your own dreams. And you will know the meaning of happiness.
Oprah Winfrey

УBe more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.Ф
John Wooden


УThere is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.Ф
Mark Twain

УThe actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.Ф
John Locke


УGreat minds have purposes, others have wishes.Ф
Washington Irving

УIn life, as in chess, forethought wins.Ф
Charles Buxton


УFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.Ф
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.Ф
James Buckham


УIn the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.Ф
Eleanor Roosevelt

УThe life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison

When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are reaching for exist within us, waiting to illumine a deeper insight and greater awareness, to shine into our lives, our environment, and into the lives of others. Each of us has purpose and a mission that only we can fulfill right where we are.Ф
Gail Pursell Elliott


УPlan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.Ф
Mark Twain

УWork like you donТt need the money. Love like youТve never been hurt. Dance like nobodyТs watching.Ф
Satchel Paige

УThe soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny Е it is the light that guides your way.Ф
Heraclitus

УWealth is the product of manТs ability to think.Ф
Ayn Rand


УThus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.Ф
G. W. F. Hegel

УThe only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.Ф
Carl Rogers

УYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.Ф
Oliver Goldsmith

УWherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of othersЕ No oneТs education is ever complete.Ф
Sir John Templeton

УDonТt be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.Ф
Belva Davis


Every winner has scars.Ф
Herbert N. Casson

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.Ф
Napoleon Hill


Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.Ф
Vernon Howard

УLive 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.Ф
Harold B. Melchart


УWithout discipline, thereТs no life at all.Ф
Katharine Hepburn




УEvery day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.Ф
The Dalai Lama


Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.Ф
Jameson Frank


УDonТt spend your precious time asking СWhy isnТt the world a better place?Т It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is СHow can I make it better?Т To that there is an answer.Ф
Leo F. Buscaglia


Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is whatТs real.
Doc Childre


You can bear any how if you have a why.
Nietzsche

УTime is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.Ф
Jim Rohn


The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance.
John Cummuta


УIf passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.Ф
Benjamin Franklin

УMen have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.Ф
Ayn Rand

УIf you want the rainbow, youТve got to put up with the rain.Ф
Jimmy Durante


УIf you donТt risk anything, you risk even more.Ф
Erica Jong


УStrength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.Ф
Arnold Schwarzenegger


УHappiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.Ф
Michael Bartel


УTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.Ф
Henri Bergson

УThe larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.Ф
Ralph W. Sockman

УThereТs lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances youТll never dare to be great at anything.Ф
Brian Griese

We tend to fall in love with the things that we think are true.
Dee W. Hock


УThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Ф
Plutarch



УYou become what you think about.Ф
Earl Nightingale

УIf you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.Ф
Napoleon Hill

УYour choices today determine your tomorrow and you make your life through the power of choice.Ф
Kathy Smith


УKnow what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.Ф
Elbert Hubbard


УLet me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.Ф
Rabindranath Tagore


УThe indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.Ф
Ben Stein


УThe secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if weТve already achieved them.Ф
Denis Waitley

УThe aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.Ф
Joseph Joubert


УWhile we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.Ф
Benjamin Franklin

УCourage doesnТt always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, СI will try again tomorrowТ.Ф
Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

УWhen asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, СFiguring out how to think about the problemТ.Ф
W. Edwards Deming


УHappiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.Ф
William H. Sheldon

УEnjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.Ф
Robert Brault

УA difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.Ф
John Maxwell


УConcentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.Ф
Andrew Carnegie

the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.Ф
Og Mandino

УAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Ф
Henry Ford

УThe worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized and never knowing.Ф
David Viscott


УYou may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call УfailureФ is not the falling down, but the staying down.Ф
Mary Pickford

УIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness, and fears.Ф
Glenn Clark

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!
Mother Teresa

УThe best way to find your-self is to lose yourself in the service of others.Ф
Mahatma Gandhi

Accept everything about yourself I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets.Ф
Clark Moustakas

УLife is ours to be spent, not to be saved.Ф
D. H. Lawrence

УThe thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.Ф
Louise Hay

УWhatsТs going on in the inside shows on the outside.Ф
Earl Nightingale

УWhatsТs going on in the inside shows on the outside.Ф
Earl Nightingale


УJust as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are.Ф
Rev. Rowland C. Croucher

УNo matter what youТve done for yourself or for humanity, if you canТt look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?Ф
Lee Iacocca


УThe glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.Ф
Ralph Waldo Emerson



УThe value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.Ф
Peter McWilliams


УWhen you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.Ф
Wayne Dyer

Whatever youТre ready for is ready for you.Ф
Mark Victor Hansen

УWe come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.Ф
Sam Keen

УDestiny 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.Ф
William Jennings Bryan


УVision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Ф
Joel A. Barker

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.Ф

Jawaharlal Nehru

УBeing defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.Ф
Marilyn Vos Savant

УExperience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Ф
Charles Buxton


УItТs better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.Ф
Chinese Proverb

УNever react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.Ф
Norman Vincent Peale



УThe higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.Ф
Anthony Robbins

УCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ф
Ambrose Redmoon

Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.Ф
Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.


There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.Ф
Hindu proverb


УBetter keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.Ф
George Bernard Shaw

УThe act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.Ф
Brian Tracy


To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplateУWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.Ф
Buddha

the beautiful thing: that is enough for one manТs life.Ф
T. S. Eliot

УThe consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.Ф
Oscar Wilde

УAll of the top achievers I know are lifelong learnersЕ Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If theyТre not learning, theyТre not growingЕ not moving toward excellence.Ф
Denis Waitley


УAny fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do.Ф
Dale Carnegie


УWhen we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.Ф
Greg Anderson


УIf youТre not giving the world the best you have, what world are you saving it for?Ф
Kent Keith

УThe purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Ф
Morris Adler


УWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.Ф
Buddha


УItТs always fun to do the impossible.Ф
Walt Disney

УHe who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.Ф
John Milton


УLow self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand break on.Ф
Maxwell Maltz


УThe self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.Ф
Thomas Szasz

УMore than anything else, I believe itТs our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.Ф
Anthony Robbins

УLet us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.Ф
Charles B. Newcomb

УA great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.Ф
Harry Browne

УDecisiveness is a characteristic of high performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.Ф
Brian Tracy


УYour future is created by what you do today, not tomorrowФ
Robert Kiyosaki


УDo not wait; the time will never be СТjust right.'Т Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Ф
Napoleon Hill

УYour attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.Ф
Zig Ziglar


УIn our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.Ф
Albert Clarke

УInaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Ф
Dale Carnegie



УEvery man stamps his value on himselfЕ man is made great or small by his own will.Ф
J.C.F. von Schiller

УKnowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.Ф
Stuart Wilde

УThere is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.Ф
Napoleon Hill

УThe abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.Ф
William Mather Lewis


УJust as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.Ф
Brian Tracy


УThe only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. YouТre only here now; youТre only alive in this moment.Ф
Marianne Williamson


УPatience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.Ф
Napoleon Hill

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Ф
Herbert Kaufman


УThe poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the mostФ
Robert Kiyosaki

УIf you do what youТve always done, youТll get what youТve always gotten.Ф
Anthony Robbins

УChange your thoughts and you change your world.Ф
Norman Vincent Peale



У
Though weТd like to deny it, the fact remains that what drives our
behavior is instinctive reaction to pain or pleasure, not intellectual cal-
culation. Intellectually, we may believe that eating chocolate is bad for
us, but weТll still reach for it. Why? Because weТre not driven so much
by what we intellectually know, but rather what weТve linked pain and
pleasure to in our nervous systems.
Ф
a. robbins

УWith love and patience, nothing is impossible.Ф
Daisaku Ideda

УIf you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.Ф

Maxwell Maltz


A man is as great as the dreams he dreams, As great as the love he bears; As great as the values he redeems, And the happiness he shares. A man is as great as the thoughts he thinks, As the worth he has attained; As the fountains at which his spirit drinks And the insight he has gained. A man is as great as the truth he speaks, As great as the help he gives, As great as the destiny he seeks, As great as the life he lives.
C.E. Flynn


УAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Ф
Anais Nin


УIt isnТt what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.Ф
Dale Carnegie


УClose scrutiny will show that most Уcrisis situationsФ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.Ф
Maxwell Maltz

УEnter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknessesЕ on your powers, instead of your problems.Ф
Paul J. Meyer


УMost of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Ф
Dale Carnegie


DonТt judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Ф
Robert Louis Stevenson



УThe easiest success measurement tool is a simple question. What did you do today to move forward? The easiest project plan on earth is also a simple question. What will you do tomorrow to move forward? At the end of each day, document your success and design your next move.Ф
Rich DiGirolamo


УYour opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.Ф
Grace Lichtenstein

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs
Tony Robbins

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Tony Robbins


I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Tony Robbins

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Tony Robbins

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Tony Robbins

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Tony Robbins


Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Tony Robbins


Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Tony Robbins


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 Ross

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison

УDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.Ф
Thomas Jefferson

УLet us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night and we can scarcely see the way.Ф
Charles B. Newcomb

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
Jim Rohn

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."
Og Mandino


"Success is a journey, not a destination."
Ben Sweetland


"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."
Grocho Marx

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
Napoleon Hill


Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
Wayne Dyer

Everything you lose gives you a little more space for something new.
Ashleigh Brilliant

He, who moves not forward, goes backward.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you donТt quit, and donТt cheat, and donТt run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."
Shelley Long


"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
Brian Tracy


Seek First to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen Covey

Enjoy and laugh a lot. Up or down, love the ride.
Anonymous

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else.
Oprah Winfrey

"We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner truth or we can base them on reactions to outer circumstances. This power always belongs to us. No one can take it from us."
Gail Pursell Elliott


Just thinking about things that trouble you, but not taking action to change them is likely to be quite ineffective.


"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they arenТt enjoying todayТs sunshine."
William Feather


"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same."
Carlos Castenada


"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."
Thomas Dreier


"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"
Og Mandino


Never miss an opportunity to make someone smile.
Anonymous

"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it."
William Hazlitt

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao tzu

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your BELIEF will help create the fact."
Henry James


"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
Lee Iacocca


"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
Lloyd Jones


"Vision doesnТt usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others."
Dr. Michael Norwood


"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self education."
Thomas Carlyle

"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like WhatТs good about this? WhatТs not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"
Charles Connolly


"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."
Grace Lichtenstein

"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."
Thomas Kempis

"In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, youТre prepared.."
Katherine Dunham

"Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts."
Buddha


"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman not the attitude of the prospect."
W. Clement Stone

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

"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."
Hosea Ballou


"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Nolan Bushnell

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he
sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant

Spirited curiosity is an emblem of the flourishing life.
Epictetus


It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Italian Proverb

He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Jose Joaquin Olmedo


"The obstacles you face are mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach."
Clarence Blasier


"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was `By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
John Abbott

Commitment challenges you to set a goal and then to support it with a promise. You must promise to achieve and never entertain the thoughts of making excuses or shunning responsibility."
Gary Ryan Blair



"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
Ernest Dimnet


. "By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."
Dorothea Brande

Acting like a victim threatens your future.


"Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life."
Shelby Steele


The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
Henry Ford


"Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration."
Jim Rohn


"Every day you waste is one you can never make up."
George Allen

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.."
Thomas Edison

"Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt


"I am not my memories. I am my dreams."
Terry Hostetler

"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
T.E. Lawrence

"Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity."
Hung Tzu Cheng


"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Franklin D. Roosevelt


"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.."
Walter Bagehot

. "Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."
William A. Ward

"Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out."
Grace Speare


"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream but create!"
Robert Collier


УLaugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come.Ф
Og Mandino


Although we cannot always control the events in our lives, we can always control our response to them, and the actions we take as a result. If thereТs anything youТre not happy aboutЦin your relationships, in your health, in your careerЦmake a decision right now about how youТre going to change it immediately.
Anthony Robbins


"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself."
Noel Coward



The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner





Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy

"The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life."
Gary Ryan Blair


You inevitably attract into your life people and circumstances in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
Brian Tracy


To avoid criticism: Do nothing:Say nothing:Be nothing!
Elbert Hubbard


Never Follow the crowd.
Bernard Baruch


Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryant


What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill


I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. . .. . I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino


If we keep on thinking that we will never succeed in a
particular venture, it is most likely that we will not because we
are blocking all positive energy flow into the subconscious.
If we have conveyed an erroneous concept to our
subconscious mind the method of overcoming it is by
repetition of constructive and harmonious thoughts, positive
attitude and visualizing a happy ending rather than negative
thoughts and suggestions.



"Life is a challenge, face it. Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is a song, sing it".


Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.
Brian Tracy


The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other person is ready.
Thoreau


"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
Viktor Frankl


The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
Brian Tracy


How would you feel if you had mastered and attained all your goals a year from now? How would you feel about yourself? How would you feel about your life? Answering these questions will help you develop compelling reasons to achieve your goals. Having a powerful enough why will provide you with the necessary how. Take this opportunity to brainstorm your top four one-year goals. Under each one, write a paragraph about why you are absolutely committed to achieving these goals within the year.
Anthony Robbins


"Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them."
Albert Schweitzer
Earl Nightingale
"The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."
Earl Nightingale
"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
Earl Nightingale
"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
Earl Nightingale
"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."
Earl Nightingale
"We tend to live up to our expectations."
Earl Nightingale
"No man is free who is not a master of himself."
(Epictetus)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Henry David Thoreau


All great success ultimately begins with an idea, but what makes ideas become reality is the fuel of human desire.
Pavlina


Life is a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Thackeray

"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."
Bruce Jenner


We must either find a way or make one.
Anthony Robbins


It is not what you say, or wish, or hope or intent, it is only what you do that counts.
Brian Tracy

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Change is inevitable. You can't avoid it. The best thing to do is accept change, learn from it, and use it to your BEST advantage! Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
Helen Schucman



Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing.
Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt

"If we don't know what we want, we become like a floating balloon. Our direction in life is at the mercy of external forces."
Bob Greene

"Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made."
Johann Goethe

As I say YES to life, life says YES to me! Louise L. Hay

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn


Goals determine what you are going to be.
Julius Erving


"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde


"It is the moment of our decisions that our destinies are created"
Anthony Robbins


To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by the crowd.
Marliyn Manson

Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try.
Edward T. Kelly


Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes


And the day came when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.
Anais Nin

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to into the impossible."
Anthony Robbins


"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness."
May Sarton



Nature is neutral; if you do the same things that other successful people have done, you will enevitable enjoy the same success they have.
Brian Tracy

The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result.
Albert Einstein


Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.
Brian Tracy
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We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar

"The past does NOT equal the future!"
Anthony Robbins

Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!
Tom Brewer


"If you talk about it, it is a dream, If you envision it, you gain excitement, If you plan it, it is possible, If you schedule it, it becomes reality"
Unknown


"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
William Arthur


Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
Wanda Carter

"You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, because of your own choices and decisions."
Brian Tracy


The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold


Human beings can transform themselves. They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day.
Walter Anderson


The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Dennis Waitley

Any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. . . . Leave no regrets on the field.
Vince Lombardi



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

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
Socrates


"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. `Which road do I take?' she asked. His response was a question: `Where do you want to go?' `I don't know,' Alice answered. `Then,' said the cat, `it doesn't matter.'"
Lewis Carroll

Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner.
Vernon Howard


When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell


Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
Cullen Hightower


"Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought."
Henry David Thoreau


"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."
Chinese Proverb

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