"My grandmother told me never let failure
go to your heart and never let success go to your head." Will Smith
"The statistics on sanity are that one out
of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're
OK, then it's you." Rita Mae Brown, writer and activist
"When you step into a turnaround situation,
you can safely assume four things: morale is low; fear is high; the good people are halfway out the door; and the slackers
are hiding." McCann-Erickson Worldwide
"Rule No. 1: Use your own good judgment
in all situations. There will be no additional rules." Employee handbook, Nordstrom department store
"People, even more than things, have to
be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." Audrey Hepburn
"One of the hardest tasks of leadership
is understanding that you are not what your are, but what you're perceived to be by others." CEO of Florida Steel
"The three great essentials to achieve anything
worth while are, firt, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." Thomas Edison
"A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worthwhile." Unknown
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill
"Ideas are a dime-a-dozen but those who
put them into practice are priceless." Unknown
"Never look back on the past; you might
trip over the future." JoAnna DeLuna
"We experience joy in life by the words
we speak." Proverb
"It doesn't matter where you are coming
from. All that matters is where you are going." Brian Tracy
"The enviornment you fashion out of your
thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in." Dr. Stephen Covey
"I am still determined to be cheerful and
happy in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery
depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances." Martha Washington
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one
thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." Henry Ford
"Few will have the greatness to bend history
itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the
history of this generation." Robert F. Kennedy
"You are, at this moment, standing, right
in the middle of your own acres of diamonds." Earl Nightingale
"The
last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." Victor Frankl
"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed.
Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied." — Charles
Caleb Colton
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there
all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living." — Joseph Campbell
"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by
30 to 50 years." — Deepak Chopra
"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." —
Dave Weinbaum
"The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for
everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal." — Deepak Chopra
"The
environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever
live in." ~ Dr.
Stephen Covey
"You have to 'be' before you can 'do,' and do before you can 'have.'"
- Zig Ziglar
"At times we shall simply have to admit that, one way or another, what we can neither
explain nor understand certainly doesn't cease to exist because we cannot see how it does or why it should." — Dr. Mark Hyman:
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"—
Robert H. Schuller:
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
— Benjamin Franklin
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn
how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
— Hippocrates:
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." — Benjamin Disraeli
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
— Owen Arthur
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
— Henry Thoreau
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." —
Robert Byrne
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All
that matters is where you are going." — Brian Tracy:
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we
need to stretch our minds." — Wayne Dyer
"We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink
of an eye." — Carlos Castaneda
"With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals,
make bigger plans, and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about." — Brian Tracy
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." — Wayne Dyer
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly." — Dr. Stephen Covey
"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind." — Brian Tracy:
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits
of thinking." — Albert Einstein
"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline — and that's the important
half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck." —
Carl Zuckmayer
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."—
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." — Sydney J. Harris
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal
or greater benefit." — Napoleon Hill
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing
as we continue to live." — Mortimer Adler
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." — Napoleon Hill
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
— Wayne Dyer
"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In
every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices." — Deepak Chopra
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there
is." — Yogi Berra