Nov 22

We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind. – Stephen Covey

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. – Tuli Kupferberg

I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself. – Unknown

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – George Patton

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. – Wayne Dyer

If I had to sum up friendship in one word, it would be comfort. – Adabella Radici

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz

Nov 21

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream. – Mark Twain

Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton

A persistent strong desire pushes your goal into manifestation. – Remez Sasson

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. – Machiavelli

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. – Joyce Brothers

We only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it. – Jon Blais

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. – Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Dare to soar – how successful you are is determined by your attitude. – Unknown

The majority of men meet with failure because (they don’t create) new plans to take the place of those that fail. – Napoleon Hill

Leadership (Confidence)

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. – Channing Pollack

Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. – Brian Tracy

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 Zuckmeyer

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

Excellent service is not what you believe it to be, it’s what your customer perceives it to be. And tells others. – Jeffrey Gitomer

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. – Anna Freud

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. – Bruce Barton

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

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. – Marie Curie

When you believe you can…you can! – Maxwell Maltz

Nov 20

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. – Seneca

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil

…self-contempt never inspires lasting change. – Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change.

That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow. – Will Garcia

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. – Patricia Neal

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else. – John Burroughs

But where was I to start? The world is so vast. I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home. No: my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself. – Elie Wiesel

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them. – Booker T. Washington

The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains. – Victor Sperandeo

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. – St. Francis of Assisi

Nov 19

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! – Brian Tracy

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

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret. – Sarah Bombell

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. – Sidney J. Harris

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out – because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. – Wayne Dyer

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. – Alexandre Dumas

There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you — if you don’t repeat it. – Pearl Bailey

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

The most important thing about goals is… having one. – Geoffry F. Abert

Nov 18

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. – Charles Caleb Colton

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. – Miguel de Cervantes

We cannot hold a torch to light another person’s path without brightening our own. – Ben Sweetland

There is no such thing as luck. It’s a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton,

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing. – Billie Jean King

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung

The human race has one effective weapon–and that is laughter. – Mark Twain

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit that we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. – George Marshall

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. After ten years, throw it away and start all over. – Alfred Edward Perlman

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

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Leadership (Motivation)

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve. – Denis Waitley

Motivation comes from within. – Unknown

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do. – Vince Poscente

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

Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. – Eleanor Porter

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

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 worst mistake a boss can make is not to say “well done.” – John Ashcroft

The worst thing one can do is not to 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 – never knowing. – Jim Rohn

Nov 17

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours, it cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. – Buddha

We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are. – Jim Rohn

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxton

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one. – Ralph Ransom

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be — whether they will admit that or not. – Earl Nightingale

The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

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

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. – Thomas Szasz

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. – Aristotle

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. – Andrew Schneider

We are not what we know. We are what we are willing to learn. – Council on Ideas

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. – Mary Bethune

Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin

The most important thing about having goals is having one. – Geoffrey F. Abert

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Wayne Dyer

Nov 16

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. – Calvin Coolidge

Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. – Eleanor Porter

Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. – Sara Ban Breathnach

Losers see thunderstorms, winners see rainbows; losers see icy streets, winners put on their ice skates! – Denis Waitley

It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others. – Sydney J. Harris

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are. – Don Miguel Ruiz

There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart. – Elizabeth J. Canham
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. – John Steinbeck

It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. – J. Willard Marriot

Nov 15

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. – Stephen Covey

The first and best victory is to conquer self. – Plato

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napolean Hill

You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives – Werner Erhard

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. – C. S. Lewis

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. – Horace

Every one is the architect of his own fortune. – Mathurin Regnier

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. – Napoleon Hill

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso