Mar 20

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. ~ Robert Montgomery

“Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.” — John Amatt

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” — Albert Einstein

Maturity is accepting the responsibility and totally understanding what responsibility means. So when we say, accept the responsibility for your attitude, we mean (1) become aware of how you think and how you feel; and (2) if there is any negativity, or if it is simply not as you want to feel then change it to make it right.~Thomas D. Willhite

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

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”— Earl Nightingale

“The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.”– Marianne Williamson

“Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”– Katherine Mansfield

If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will. – John Atkinson

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.-Mitzi Chandler

Mar 19

We are what we believe we are. — C.S. Lewis

“Keep away from 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.”– Mark Twain

“All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!” – Bob Newhart

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. — Sir Winston Churchill

It’s never too late to change your mind if it is meant to be. ~Jackie Mulgrew~

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints. – Napoleon Hill

“Try to be like the turtle — at ease in your own shell.” — Bill Copeland

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.” — John Bunyan

Mar 18

Some days life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we
should dance.~unknown~

We tend to live up to our expectations.–Earl Nightingale

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. – –Brian Tracy

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”– William James

“Be changed and the world around you begins to change.”— Dr. Gerald Epstein

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.-F. Scott Fitzgerald

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. – Walter Savage Landor

It’s always too soon to quit. – David T. Scoates

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Mar 17

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and woman keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”~Conrad Hilton~

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is
sure. — Mark Twain

“Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for life. By keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience, and what he gathers, serves him at unexpected moments, is unforeseen.” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. — Lord Tennyson Alfred

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.- George Bernard Shaw

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”– Winston Churchill

“Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it’s so
much easier when you have support.” — Dr. Joe Vitale

“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.”– Marva Collins

Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.

Mar 16

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”~Nora Roberts~

“Action makes more fortune than caution.” — Luc DeClapiers

“Without action, without decision, you remain in possibility, which is safe and beautiful but eventually enervating and boring.” — Jennifer Louden

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.” — Caroline Myss

“I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that; then I realized I was somebody.” — Lily Tomlin

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. — Michael Jordan

“There are so many ways for you to become a self-made millionaire that it is almost impossible for you not to achieve this goal if you are really serious about it.” – Brian Tracy

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”– Helen Keller

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. – Vince Lombardi

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

Mar 15

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.— Iris Murdoch

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”– Jerry Rice

“Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.” -Sophia Bedford-Pierce

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”– e. e. cummings

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. – Joan Didion

The destiny of man is in his own soul – Herodotus

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore.-Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. — Madeleine L’Engle

Mar 14

“If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible.” — John Kanary

“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.” — Annie Besant

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.”– Chinese Proverb

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” – Sarah Caldwell

“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. – Robert Conklin

There’s no abiding success without commitment. – Anthony Robbins

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” – Frank Herbert,

Mar 13

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Human beings are motivated to fulfill needs and wants. Needs are common to all people. Wants are unique to each individual.” — Denis Waitley

“You are the only person who can forgive yourself. Once that forgiving has taken place, you can then console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure… The pressure can make you something quite precious, quite wonderful, quite beautiful and extremely hard.” — Maya Angelou

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.”— Earl Nightingale

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”– Michelangelo Buonarroti

The way you see people is the way you treat them. – Zig Ziglar

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. – George Shinn

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. – Helmut Schmidt

“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”….. Albert Einstein

Mar 12

“When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.” –Bernie S. Siegel

“I have made it a rule of my 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 good for wallowing in.” — Katherine Mansfield

“If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.” — Joan Borysenko

“Light burdens borne far become heavy.” — French proverb

“In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some.”– Anonymous

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso

It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn. – John Bradshaw

Mar 11

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” -– Thomas A. Edison

“Worry is negative goal setting.” — Brian Tracy

“Do not give any time to your past, you can’t change what happened 5 minutes ago.” — Jan Ruhe

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” — Martin Luther

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” ~Dr. Robert Muller~

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. — Edgar Watson Howe

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”– William Jennings Bryan

“We can tap our own healing forces by learning to use the power the mind has over the body. Healing is part of self-realization, a process of becoming whole and healthy.”— Dr. Gerald Epstein

“If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.”– Abigail Van Buren

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes

The key to your universe is that you can choose. – Frederick (Carl) Frieseke