062912 quotes

Live out of your imagination,  not your history.
-  Stephen Covey

We must find time to stop and thank the people who have made a difference in our lives.
-  Dan Zadra

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

-  Napoleon Hill 

062012 quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

-  Marcus Aurelius

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,  And is never the result of selfishness.

-  Napoleon Hill

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

-  Wayne Dyer

Father's Day 061712

A wise son heeds his father's instruction,

But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 13:1

A fool despises his father's instruction,

But he who receives correction is prudent.

Proverbs 15:5

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath,

but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

061612 quotes

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors; set today's rhythm with your heart-drum; walk today's march with courage; create today as your celebration of life.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-  H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people
to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the
roads weren't paved.
-  Will Rogers

 

061412 quotes

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
-  B.J. Marshall
 

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

-  Neale Donald Walsch

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose  … somehow we win out.

-  Ronald Reagan

060412 quotes

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence.

-  Richard DeVos

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

-  Thomas Jefferson

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

-  Jim Rohn

060312 quotes

When you find that place where you’re happy, don’t mess with it.

-  Coach Jim Valvano

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, But rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

-  Hugh Downs 

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, Is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

-  Dale Carnegie

060212 quotes

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

-  Ted Williams

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be
understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

-  Ralph Nichols

Profanity is a sign of inadequate vocabulary or unsound judgment … or both.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

060112 quotes

Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

-  Helen Keller

You must find the place inside yourself  where nothing is impossible.

-  Deepak Chopra

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there.  Then make a start from where you now stand.

-  Napoleon Hill