Tuesday, November 07, 2006


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


2. "The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." - Albert Schweitzer


3. "The truth is, whatever you cannot talk about is already out of control in your life." - Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life


4. "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, The spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham


5. "It is in the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all." - Father Desmond Wilson


6. "The beginning is half of every action." - Greek Proverb


7. "Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs." - Vaclaw Havel


8. "Celebrate any progress. Don't wait to get perfect." - Ann McGee Cooper


9. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden


10. “Failure is an event , never a person.” – William D. Brown


11. “Don’t do anything in practice that you wouldn’t do in the game.” – George Halas


12. “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley


13. “There’s always free cheese in a mousetrap.” – Unkown


14. “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Edward Abbey


15. “Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge


16. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”- Coach Darrel Royal


17. “Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.” – Dee Hock Courtesy of David Allen


18. “The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” – Albert Eintein


19. “Life is not a ‘brief candle’. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations.” - George Bernard Shaw


20. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” - Henry Ford


21. ”Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”- George S. Patton


22. ”A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”- Bob Dylan


23. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”- Peter F. Drucker


24. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”-George S. Patton


25. “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”- George S. Patton


26. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard


27. “A problem is your chance to do your best.”-Duke Ellington


28. “It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.”-Claude Bernard


29. “Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” – Harriet Braiker


30. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”-Wayne Dyer


31. “Learn how to rethink, and you start to change.” – Chris Tumer


32. “Failing to plan is planning to fail.”-Allen Lakein


33. “It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.” –unknown


34. “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”-Dale Carnegie


35. “Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” – Alfred N. Whitehead


36. “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what your doing.” – W.E. Deming


37. “The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”-David WeinBaum


38. “When your values are clear to you, making decisions become easier.” – Roy Disney


39. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”-Confucius


40. “Concentrate on what you do well, and do it better than anybody else.”-John Schnatter


41. “It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”-Albert Einstein


42. “Plan you work and work your plan.”-Napoleon Hill


43. “You most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”-Brain Tracy


44. “The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually disguises itself as hardwork.”-Thomas Edison


45. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”-Anthony Robbins


46. “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, because of your own choices and decisions.”-Brian Tracy


47. “Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be awaited for. It is a thing to be achieved.”-William Jennings Bryant


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


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


50. “To achieve something you’ve never achieved before, you must become someone you’ve never been before.”-Brian Tracy


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


52. “The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.” – William Lyon Phelps


53. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Toistoy


54. “Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!”- Tom Brewer


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


56. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result.”-Albert Einstein


57 “If you change your thinking, you change your life.” – Brian Tracy


58. “F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real”-Anthony Robbins


59. “We see things not as they are, but as we are.” – Henry Major Tomlinson


60. “Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try.” – Edward T. Kelly


61. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”-Thomas Jefferson


62. “Any time you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.” – Stephen R. Covey


63. “Seek first to understand and then to be understood.” – Stephen R. Covey


64. “The biggest mental roadblocks that you will ever have to overcome are those represented by your self-limiting beliefs.”-Brian Tracy


65. “Before I can walk in another person’s shoes, I must first remove my own.” – Brian Tracy


66. “Young love is when you love someone because of what they do right. Mature love is when you love someone in spite of what they do wrong.”-Mark Goulston


67. “To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” – anonymous


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


69. “To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.”-Ken Keyes


70. “There is no security on this earth, only opportunity.” – General Douglas McArthur


71. “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them.”-Anthony Robbins


72. “What we do to impress others are the very things others find most annoying.” – Burke Franklin


73. “Wounded people are dangerous; they know they can survive.” – anonymous


74 “Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” – Dag Hammarskjold


75. “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo


76. “The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower


77. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Elmer Letterman


78. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.” – Winston Churchill


79 “Any time you’re tempted to say “Impossible”, add an apostrophe and a space, and say, “*I’m* possible.” – Al Secunda


80 “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say cannot be done.” – Randy Foutch


81. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”-Mark Twain


82. “Quickly say That’s good! to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.” – Brian Tracy


83. “It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” – Madeleine L’Engle


84. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn


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


86 “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley


87. “This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.” - Charles Franklin Kettering


88. “Every problem has a limited life span.” – Robert H. Schuller


89. “There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton


90. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."- Anonymous


91. “" Don't be ashamed of your yesterdays because they helped to create your todays."-Nadine Waite


92. " He never wins who fears defeat."- Prahlad Pandey


93. " It is quite simple to surround yourself with friends, but much more difficult to be one." -Albert --- Texas


94. " People judge you according to your actions but not according to your intentions."- Revathi Valluri


95. " Nothing beats a failure but a try."- Unknown


96. " He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."- Lao Tzu


97. " Life is not easy. Everyone gets knocked down so there is no shame in it. The shame comes when you fail to get back up."- Unknown


98. " A house is made of bricks but a home is made of hearts."- Unknown


99. " You cannot forgive what you cannot forget."- Garry Verhuel


100. " Every day is a good day, as long as you're alive to experience it."- Jacqueline Fordmeir Carlton --- Washington


101. " A house doesn't have to be huge to be a home."- Laura Chow --- Virginia


102. " If the going seems easy, check if you're going backwards!"- Pam P. --- Pennsylvania


103. " Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."- Mahatma Gandhi


104. " We work to become, not to acquire."- Elbert Hubbard


105. " When you can't solve the problem, manage it."- Robert Schuller


106. " Your Body is a machine that your Mind controls!"- Unknown


107. " Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit."Gordon Parks


108. " Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."- Goethe


109. " Determination is the strength you achieve after failure."- Scott T. Powell


110. " A true leader is a person who sees light when there is only darkness."- Jordan Van Flute


111. " Sometimes the beginning of a great thing does not have a great beginning."- Mike Boggus


112. " Ideas are like seeds; you feed them until they become big and noticed."- Zack H. --- Ontario, Canada


113. " Some of our biggest mistakes are responsible for some of our greatest accomplishments."-James H. North Carolina

114. " Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."-unknown

115. " Anything worthwhile is always worth waiting for."-unknown

116. " If you can't beat them... simply try harder."- Simon Harris --- South Africa

117. " Count your life by smiles, not tears; count your life by friends, not years." – unknown

118. " Life can give you a hundred reasons to cry, but you can give life a thousand reasons to smile." - unknown

119. " Giving love is the greatest pleasure of the heart and receiving it back is the highest treasure of your soul."- Christina Daniel

120. " Determination is the strength you achieve after failure."- Scott T. Powell

121. " Without the stones of life being thrown at you, you would have nothing to step on to get to the next level."- Rondra Bolden

122. ”The hardest part of getting to the top is getting through the people at the bottom."- Unknown

123. “Be all you can be today...tomorrow might never come to be better."- Kandace D., Age 17 --- California

124. " Persistence paralyzes resistance." – unknown

125. " I will do today what others won't, so I can live tomorrow like others can't."-Casey Combden

126. " Beauty is not what is shown on the outside, beauty is what lies underneath, in the heart."-unknown

127. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”- Unknown128. “A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”- Unknown

129. “Success Secret: Do more than what you’re paid for!” – unknown

130. “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. “-Louis A. Berman

131. “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”-Elbert Hubbard

132. “The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.”- Francoise de Motteville

33. “Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”- Marian Wright Edelman


134. “Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”- Marian Wright Edelman

135. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”-thomas alva edision

136. “We ake a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”-Winston churchill

137. “Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.” - Vaclav Havel

138. "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. And life is after all a chain." --William James 1842-1910

139. "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." --Lao Tzu

140. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.Alexander Graham Bell

141. "If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it." --Chinese Proverb

142. “Action may not bring happiness, but no happiness without action”

143. "Try not to be a person of success. But rather a person of value."

144. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. – Alfred A. Montapert

145. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it!

146. "Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

147. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Friedrich Engels

148. "One joy scatters a hundred griefs." --Chinese Proverb

149. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power , and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

150. "Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow." - Robert Kiyosaki

151. “Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions; could have, might have, and should have.”-Louis E. Boone

152. SMILE IS A LANGUAGE OF LOVE , SMILE IS A SOURCE TO WIN HEARTS,SMILE >CREATES GREATNESS IN PERSONALITY,"SO KEEP SMILING" >

153. "If you have one true friend you have more that your share." --Thomas Fuller Clergy 1608-1661

154. “Every time you make a promise you don’t keep, a tiny bit of power is revoked from your soul” – Mark Joyner

155. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

156. “The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. Your current results are who you were.” – James A. Ray

157. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

158. What you DO with what you know determines how powerful you will be.

159. Break the cycle of failure by recognizing the things that cause failure

160. If you’ve been waiting for “just the right time” to take action, there will never be a better time!

161. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford

162. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett

163. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap...but by the seeds you plant." --Robert Louis Stevenson

164. End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, ‘I love you!’ Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform. – Mark Victor Hansen

165. "If we do only what is requires of us we are slaves, the moment we do more, we are free." --Cicero 106-43 BC

166. “The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.” – Brian Tracy

167. “Every time you make a promise you don’t keep, a tiny bit of power is revoked from your soul” – Mark Joyner

168. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

169. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

170. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. – Confucius

171. A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else

172. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George S. Patton

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

174. Positive thinking is not enough, but it’s a start. The molten iron of thought is forged into reality only through your actions. – Mark Joyner

175. Always remember that the great and strong character is the one who is ever ready to sacrifice the present pleasure for the future good. - anonymous

176. Progress is slow at first, more rapid as we proceed. - anonymous

176. What matters most is not how well we've started but how well we'll finish. - anonymous

177. "Great minds talk about IDEAS, average minds talk about THINGS, small minds talk about PEOPLE"

178. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good". - anonymous