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• We speak of waves in a storm as "sea horses."  Like wild horses,
  impetuous and irresistible, a man can drown in them, but if he can ride them in a well-founded ship (as a man rides a horse which carries him), they can support him on his voyages.
  John Layard
• Miracles are natural; when they do not occur, something has gone wrong.
  Helen Schulman
• Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner.
  Vernon Howard
• "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."
  Ken Keyes
• There is no security on this earth, only opportunity.
  General Douglas McArthur
  "One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. His response was a question: 'Where do you want to go?' 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'"
  Lewis Carroll
• There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.
  Norman Vincent Peale
• "On the important subject of values, we discern a marked deterioration in traditional
  values essential to competitiveness. A lack of both individual and institutional leadership
  has eroded respect for community and nationhood. We concluded that values of    integrity, social justice, and moral leadership are not only necessary in themselves, but
  lead directly to competitive advantage. Our standard of living and our standard of values are inseparable."
  Columbus University
• In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
  Andy Rooney, 'Pieces of My Mind'
• "Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not
  of trade but of thought."
  Henry David Thoreau
• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
  Albert Einstein {1879-1955 German-born American Physicist}
• Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
  Cullen Hightower
• When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
  Alexander Graham Bell
• "Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, have truth--a knowledge of things as they are."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new
  dream."
  Les Brown {American Author & Motivational Lecturer}
• After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi mentor responded... "That is why you fail."
  The Empire Strikes Back
• "When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you
  co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your
  own nature. You, being yourself, helps others by themselves.
  Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to
  dominate others, nor cringe before them."         
  Jane Roberts

• "Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."
  Ann Landers
• "If people are going to solve their problems, the first thing they've got to do is get honest. If somebody comes to me and says, 'How do I get to Chicago?' my first question's going to be, 'Well, where are you?'"
  Dr. Phil McGraw
• Human beings can transform themselves.  They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day. 
  Walter Anderson
• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yeasterday.
  Alexander Pope
• The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
  Dag Hammarskjold
• Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a civilized person to be polite to a beggar.
  Unknown
• "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them."
  Anthony Robbins
• "Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."
  Chinese Proverb
• "What we do to impress others are the very things others find most annoying."
  Burke Franklin
• "Wounded people are dangerous; they know they can survive."
  Anonymous

• "Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "Eighty percent of success is showing up."
  Woody Allen
• "Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. "
  Dag Hammarskjold
• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you
  desire to appear.
  Socrates
• “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."
  Thomas Paine {1737-1809 American Political Theorist, Writer}
• When you make the finding yourself -- even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light -- you'll never forget it.
  Carl Sagan
• "There is no real excellence in all this world  which can be separated from right living."
  David Starr Jordan
• "Under a spring mist, ice and water forget their old difference..."
  Teitoku
• It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
  Ziggy Marley
• "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Human beings can transform themselves. They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day.
  Walter Anderson
• "Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses."
  Russel Baker
• "To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "(With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With
  people, slow is fast and fast is slow."
  Stephen Covey
• The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand,
  and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could
  exhibit."
  Wayne Dyer {American  Psychotherapist, Author & Lecturer}
• Kids are the all-time champions of questioning. What could you gain by imitating the innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get an answer?         
  Anthony Robbins
• “Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them."
  Albert Schweitzer
• "If you empower dummies you get bad decisions faster!"
  Rich Teerlink
• Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.  Only individuals can do this.  A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas."
  Estill I. Green  {VP of Bell Telephone Laboratories}
• "Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process anymore than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. It's inside-out."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it
  within himself."
  Galileo {1564-1642 Italian Astronomer & Mathematician} 
• "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an
  invincible summer."
  Albert Camus
• "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
  William Shakespeare
• "Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you
  would die today."
  Og Mandino {1923-1996 American Motivational Author & Speaker}
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
  Mark Twain
• When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.                                                    
  Brian Tracy
• You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."
  Paul Goodman
• "You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing."
  Luis Bunuel

• The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers to things just a tiny bit.
  Brian Tracy
• "Do what thy manhood bids thee do From none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies, Who makes and  keeps his self-made law."
  Sir Richard Burton
• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
  Anne Bradstreet
• Nothing happens to us which we are not fitted by nature to bear.
  Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems
  that we learn.
  M. Scott Peck
• Nothing happens to us that we are not fitted by nature to bear.
  Marcus Aurelius
• I like a man who grins when he fights.
  Winston Churchill
• The big lesson of life is never be scared of anyone or anything. Fear is the enemy of logic.
  Frank Sinatra
• I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
  Arnold Palmer
• You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.
  Brian Tracy
• "Nature gives you the face you have when you are twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But it is up to you to earn the face you have at fifty."
  Coco Gabrielle Chanel
• "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar."
  Sir Winston Churchill
• "Begin at the beginning, the king said gravely, and go till you come to the end; then stop."
  Lewis Carroll
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
  leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against
  the right wall."
  Stephen R. Covey {American Speaker Trainer & Author}
• "If you learn to appreciate more of what you already have, you
  will find yourself having more to appreciate."
  Michael Angier
• He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
  Thomas Fuller
• Our choice of people to associate with, both personally and
  business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate  with turkeys, you will never fly with the
  eagles.                                         
  Brian Tracy

• The supreme quality for a leader is  unquestionably integrity."
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels satisfaction.                          
  Brian Tracy
• "The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character."           
  Stephen R. Covey
• "Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for.
  Happiness is something you design."  
  Jim Rohn
• "At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, ‘I was always happy.’ Hopefully, we will be able to say, ‘I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.’"
  Barbara Deangelis
• "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"
  Sir Winston Churchill
• "The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."
  Marcellinus Ammianus {Egyptian Historian & Author}
• "It's hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves."
  Linda Geraci
• Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of
  dedicated, concentrated  effort.
  Brian Tracy
• "By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a
  difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they
  bless you, the giver."
  Barbara De Angelis {American Relationship Author}
• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
  Elmer Letterman
• "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with
  it."
  Winston Churchill {1874-1965 British Prime Minister}

• I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.
  Charles Lindbergh
• Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
  W.E.Channing
• A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
  Anthony Robbins
• Any time you're tempted to say "Impossible," add an apostrophe and a space, and say, "*I'm* possible."
  Al Secunda, The 15 Second Principle
• If you swing hard enough and often enough you must eventually hit a home run.
  Brian Tracy
• "We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are
  conditioned to see it."                      
  Stephen R. Covey
• Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.
  Brian Tracy
• "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains
  the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
  Samuel Coleridge {1772-1834 British Poet, Critic & Philosopher}
• The greatest revolution of my life is the discovery that individuals can change the outer aspects of  their lives by changing the inner attitudes of their minds.
  William James   
• "External success has become an ambition without a cause--and with increasingly hollow spiritual rewards."
  Katz and Liu

• Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.                                              Brian Tracy
• "The secret of living is to find...the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand."
  Luigi Pirandello
• "Know yourself well first, then you can know others.  With this
  knowledge comes the vision for personal success."
  Cynthia Tam
• Your true beliefs and values are only and always expressed in your actions, especially what you do under pressure.               Brian Tracy
• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are
  according to his pains."
  Robert Herrick {1591-1674 British Poet}
• One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
  Marie Curie
• "It is what we think we know already that often prevents us
  from learning."
  Claude Bernard {1813-1878 French Physiologist}
• "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."                    
  Henry David Thoreau
• "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say cannot be done."
  Randy Foutch
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
  Mark Twain
• Where there is life, there is hope Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life – purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
  Dennis Waitley

• Quickly say That's good! to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.                                                       
  Brian Tracy
• It is the ability to choose which makes us human."
  Madeleine L'Engle
• "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is
  favourable"
  Seneca 4BC - AD65
• A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
  Albert Einstein
• You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out
  of focus."
  Mark Twain {1835-1910 American Humorist & Writer}
• Peace of mind is the highest human good and it is your normal, natural condition. As yourself, Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
  Brian Tracy
• "Good actions get good results in time."                
  St. Francis of Asissi
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.              
  Thomas Edison
• "Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them.”
  Richard Bach
• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?
  Brian Tracy

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