Nov 13

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence. – William Feather

Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control. – Anonymous

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don’t keep an eye on can make an awful mess of your stove. – Edward Stevenson

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. – Decouvertes

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

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’ – George Bernard Shaw

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. – Ralph Gerard

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

Just because fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. – Les Brown

If you have the courage to step outside of your comfort zone, you will not only be amazed by the marvel and sights of the world, but also with the wonders that lay deep within yourself. – Rosanna Ienco

Nov 12

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn, and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. – Brian Tracy

Decision is a sharp knife that cut clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind. – Ian McKeithen

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. – Plutarch

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go. – Jim Rohn

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. – A. A. Milne

Knowledge of any kind … brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities. – Deepak Chopra

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching…. – Sogyal Rinpoche

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. – Arnold Bennett

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. – Muhammad Ali

Leadership (Business)

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. – W. Edwards Deming

Appreciate people. Nothing gives more joy than appreciation. – Ruth Smeltzer

Companies think they ‘save money’ by cutting back on employees who serve (help) customers. Big mistake.

The only people happy about that are companies who have plenty of people (and make plenty of money) like Home Depot. – Jeffrey Gitomer

Don’t concentrate on making a lot of money, but rather on becoming the type of person people want to do business with. – Patricia Fripp

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction. – Warren Buffett

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things. – Jim Rohn

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right. – Brian Tracy

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don’t have it well designed. – Jim Rohn

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. – Art Linkletter

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do it right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it. – Mark Twain

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don’t take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them. – Carisa Bianchi

Don’t find fault, find a remedy. – Henry Ford

From product knowledge springs the expertise to work with clients in the effective and professional manner that earns high income. Invest ten minutes daily reviewing your product information or using your product so you know it inside and out. – Tom Hopkins

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. – Susanne K. Langer

If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won’t even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know. – Patricia Fripp

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. – Coco Chanel

Nov 11

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. – Confucius

Little by little does the trick. – Aesop

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. – Susanne K. Langer

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. – Richard Bach

The word ‘question’ is derived from the Latin ‘quarrier’ (to seek) which is also the root of ‘quest.’ A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves. – Source Unknown

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. – Norman Vincent Peale

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving. – Earl Nightingale

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

Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. – Woodrow Wilson

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry S. Truman

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. – Richard Evans

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nov 10

Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time. – Linda Shalaway

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. – Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

No one ever excused his way to success. – Dave Del Dotto

Small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. – Brian Tracy

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. – Winston Churchill

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. – J. Askenberg

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re thinking about yesterday. – Charles Kettering

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. – Josh Billings

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. – Naomi Judd

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn’t often, on their own, the hard way. – Robert Heinlein

Nov 9

For every finish line tape a runner breaks – complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras – there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. – Grete Waitz

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, “There is a way for me and, by jingo, I’ll find it. – Clifford Sloan

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment. – H. Ross Perot

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. – Pierre de Coubertin

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. – Dave Gardner

Happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love. – Don Miguel Ruiz

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. – Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. – Brendan Francis

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. – Mark Twain

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. – Kahlil Gibran

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. – Henry Wheeler Shaw

It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts. – Ella Fitzgerald

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur

To play it safe is not to play. – Robert Altman

Leadership (Success)

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is. – Bob Feller

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. – Arthur Buddhold

If you want success badly enough, you must weigh each thought, action, and experience. The reward you reap will be the knowledge of some of history’s best kept secret, which when understood and applied will truly guide you to the success in life that all have dreamed about, but only few have attained – Thomas D. Willhite

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.

The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. – Albert Einstein

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 create their own success by learning what they need to learn, and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. – Brian Tracy

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret to success. – Swami Sivananda

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment. – H. Ross Perot

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, “There is a way for me and, by jingo, I’ll find it.” – Clifford Sloan

Success is never wondering what if. – Karrie Huffman

Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

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

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep. – Wilson Mizner

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building. – Robert Collier

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. – Mark Caine

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

Nov 8

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. – Greg Anderson

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little. – Plutarch

Everyone experiences tough times; it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them. – Lakshmi Mittal

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. – Ann Landers

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between. – George H. Harrison

A person’s worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having. – Alice Mary Hilton

Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’ – Dr. Robert H. Schuller

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have. – James R. Ball

Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation. – Roger Staubach

Nov 7

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. – Lowell Thomas

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. – Norman Cousins

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. – Mahatma Gandhi

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. – Mohammed

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been. – Benjamin Franklin

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – Stephen Covey

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. – Napoleon Hill

Nov 6

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me. – Leroy Burrell

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement. – Donald A. Laird

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. – Norman Vincent Peale

You don’t have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years. – Jim Rohn

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. – Marie Curie

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. – Jim Rohn

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep. – Wilson Mizner