072712 quotes

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
-  Muhammad Ali 

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't you won't.
-  Bruce Jenner 

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
-  Bertie C. Forbes

072312 quotes

You don’t have to be great to start, But you have to start to be great.  

-  Joe Sabah 

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths,  Rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

-  John D. Rockefeller

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more Dangerous than a sick body,

For its sickness is always contagious.

-  Napoleon Hill

072212 quotes

"You shall not murder."

-  Exodus 20:13

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.'

-  Matthew 5:21

“not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.”

-  1 John 3:12

“Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"

Jesus said to him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'  "This is the first and great commandment.

 "And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

"On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

-  Matthew 22:35-40

071912 quotes

It happens … Sometimes.
-  Forrest Gump

Love is what we were born with.   Fear is what we learned here.

-   Marianne Williamson

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn.  Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

-  Earl Nightingale

071712 quotes

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

-  Booker T. Washington

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.

I just watch what they do.

-  Andrew Carnegie

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

-  Bear Grylls

071612 quotes

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
-  Ryunosuke Satoro

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

-  James Baldwin

Be enthusiastic about your decision. It's YOUR decision! Reach, seek, risk! Don't ever stop. Follow your thoughts and don't listen to others.

It's your life and you'll get it... You Can Do It!

-  Sirleny Rodrigues Garcia

071212 quotes

Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

-  Florence Shinn 

If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther.

-  John Wooden

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

-  Paul Boese 

071112 quotes

Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.

-  Foster C. McClellan

When you know what you want, And want it bad enough, You will find a way to get it.

-  Jim Rohn

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it,  perhaps, for the rest of our lives, We will be unwilling to settle for less.

-  Kurt Hahn

 

070912 quotes

Within my mind, the sun always shines, and the sky is always blue.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
-  Gail Sheehy

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

-   Forrest Gump

070812 quotes

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

-  Nathanael Emmons

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help,
something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
-  Albert Schweitzer
 

It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and to discourage … and eliminate … negative emotions.

-  Napoleon Hill 

070712 quotes

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

-  Jim Rohn

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-  Leo Buscaglia
 

Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime, your best contribution to those around you and to future generations will be in the happiness and joy you generated and radiated to those around you.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

070412 quotes

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
-   John F. Kennedy

We must be free not because we claim freedom,  but because we practice it.
-   William Faulkner

Those who won our independence...  valued liberty as an end and as a means.  They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.

-   Louis D. Brandeis

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
-   Abraham Lincoln

070312 quotes

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
-  Seneca

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy ...  true fulfillment.
-  Tony Robbins

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
-  Audrey Hepburn

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