Thoughts 24DEC2010

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence - Barnard Montgomery
Our life's a stage, a comedy : either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently - Palladas
A leader is a dealer in hope - Napoleon Bonaparte

Thoughts 20DEC2010

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best - John Keats
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do - Samuel Smiles
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings - William Shakespeare

Thoughts 17DEC2010

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says : "Leave no stone unturned" - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value - Albert Einstein
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius - Jospeph Addison

Thoughts 16DEC2010

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership - Faye Wattleton
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable - Seneca
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts 13DEC2010

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure - Kal Menninger
The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it - Seneca (7 B.C. - 65 A.D)

Thoughts 10DEC2010

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience - Elbert Hubbard
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them - Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts 09DEC2010

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action - Benjamin Disraeli
It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep - Chas. Austin Bates
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each - Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts 06DEC2010

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true - Leon J. Suenes
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving - Dennis Waitley
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself - Georges Clemenceau

Thoughts 03DEC2010

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself - Theodore T. Hunger
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it - W.C. Fields
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be - Horace Bushnell

Thoughts 02DEC2010

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance - Owen Feltham
If you would create something, you must be something - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thoughts 01DEC2010

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one - Elbert Hubbard
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid - Publius Syrus
The rose is fairest when it is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears - Walter Scott

Thoughts 30NOV2010

He that is down needs fear no fall - John Bunyan
Go back a little to leap further - John Clarke
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do - Samuel Smiles

Thoughts 29NOV2010

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration - Evan Esar
Every artist was first an amateur - Ralph Waldo Emerson
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do - Epictetus

Thought 26NOV2010

YOU ARE YOU
You are strong ... When you take your grief and teach it to smile.
You are happy ... When you overcome our fear and help others do the same.
You are brave ... When you see a flower and are thankful for the blessing.
You are loving ... When your own pain does not blind you to the pain of others.
You are wise ... When you know the limits of your wisdom.
You are true ... When you admit there are time you fool yourself.
You are alive ... When tomorrow's hope means more to you than yesterday's mistake.
You are growing ... When you know what you are but not what you will become.
You are free ... When you are in control of yourself and do not with to control others.
You are honorable ... When you find your honor is to honor others.
You are generous ... When you can take as sweetly as you can give.
You are humble ... When you do not know how humble you are.
You are thoughtful ... When you see me just as I am and treat me just as you are.
You are merciful ... When you forgive in others the faults you condemn in yourself.
You are beautiful ... When you don't need a mirror to tell you.
You are rich ... When you never need more than what you have.
You are you ... When you are at peace with who you are not.
Source Unknown - Got this from Hanapiah Atan (CELCOM) who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim (CIMB) who got it from Hj Badruddin Hj Ishak (ex-CIMB)
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time - Josh Billings

Thoughts 25NOV2010

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it - Albert Einstein
Wisdom, compassion and courage are the three universal recognised moral qualities of men - Confucius
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something - Plato

Thoughts 24NOV2010

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
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success - Napoleon Hill
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid / Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes - Publius Syrus

Thoughts 23NOV2010

Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall - Oliver Goldsmith
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again - Henry Ford
Failure teaches success - Japanese Saying

Thoughts 22NOV2010

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen - Frank Loyd Wright
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory - Cicero
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out - Robert Collier

Thoughts 19NOV2010

They can because they think they can - Virgil
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will - Vince Lombardi
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well - Henry W. Longfellow

Thoughts 16NOV2010

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can - Thomas Carlyle
I failed my way to success - Thomas Edison
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed - Theodore Roosevelt

Thoughts 15NOV2010

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows - Aristotle Onassis
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes - Earl of Beaconsfield
Impatience never commanded success - Edwin H. Chapin

Thought 12NOV2010

Success is sweet : the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats - A. Branson Alcott
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is : try to please everybody - Herbert Bayard Swope
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first - Shakespeare

Thought 11NOV2010

SUCCESS
The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.
C. V. White
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way - Christopher Morley

Thought 10NOV2010

THE DAY BEFORE TOMORROW
The day before tomorrow; Is a very special day; And I feel that I should live it; In a happy kind of way ...
Tomorrow's so mysterious; That I really can't foresee; The things that might be happening; And the way that life might be
But the Day After Tomorrow; That's quite a different thing ...; Those hours are so much closer; I can guess what they might bring ...; I'd rather be a sparrow; Or a lily of the field; And just wait till God's will for me; Is finally revealed ...
I'll put aside the grief's and cares; The trouble I won't borrow; And just be glad I'm living in; The Day Before Tomorrow !!!
Author : Jean Kyler McManus
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears and score your points when you get the opportunity. Enjoy the game! - Author Unknown

Thought 09NOV2010

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference
Author : Reinhold Niebuhr
Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself - Brian Tracy

Thought 08NOV2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (10 of 10)
[Do Not Procrastinate And Never Regret]
Do not waste time in protracted wondering " Should I or shouldn't I?" Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating. You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings. Value your time and do the things that need to be done. It does not matter if you fail the first time. You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time. Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing. Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past. Do not regret. Whatever happened was destined to happen only that way. Why cry over spilt milk?
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other - Thomas Fuller

Thought 02NOV2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (9 of 10)
[Never Leave The Mind Vacant]
An empty mind is the devil's workshop. All evil actions start in the vacant mind. Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile . Actively follow a hobby. Do something that holds your interest. You must decide what you value more : money or peace of mind. Your hobby, like social work or religious work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental chanting of God's name.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
Love is not how much you can get but how much you can give. It's not about giving up but holding on, not about how you say 'I love you', but how you show that it's true - Source Unknown

Thought 01NOV2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (8 of 10)
[Mediate Regularly]
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining twenty-three and half-hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before. You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily meditation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
A good name will shine forever - Unknown

Thought 29OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (7 of 10)
[Do Not Bite off More Than You Can Chew]
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says : "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Thought 28OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (6 of 10)
[Endure What Cannot Be Cured]
This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Every day we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control ... If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things. We must learn to endure them cheerfully. Believe in yourself and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects - Alexis

Thought 27OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (5 of 10)
[Change Yourself According To The Environment]
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles - Washington Irving

Thought 26OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (4 of 10)
[Do Not Be Jealous]
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbour whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? No. Remember everybody's life is shaped by his/her destiny, which has now become his/her reality. If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will only take away your peace of mind.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
He who knows not and not know he knows not is a fool - Unknown

Thought 25OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (3 of 10)
[Do Not Crave For Recognition]
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yours in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here - John G. Whittier

Thought 22OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (2 of 10)
[Forgive and Forget]
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop ill feelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. This in turn results in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive & Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
Life is a climb; but the view is great - Hannah Montana

Thought 21OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (1 of 10)
[Do Not Interfere In Others' Business Unless Asked]
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others' affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God.. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration - Confucius

Thoughts 20OCT2010

The secret of life is to have a task. Something that you devote your entire life to, something to bring everything to, every minute of the day, for your whole life. And the important thing is, it must be something you can't possibly do - Unknown
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way - Unknown
Kindness is the kingpin of success in life; it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly - Andrew Chapman

Thoughts 20OCT2010

The secret of life is to have a task. Something that you devote your entire life to, something to bring everything to, every minute of the day, for your whole life. And the important thing is, it must be something you can't possibly do - Unknown
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way - Unknown
Kindness is the kingpin of success in life; it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly - Andrew Chapman

Thoughts 19OCT2010

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities - Gail Sheehy
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable - Lance Morrow
Leadership is about magnetic communication. Leaders have a way of communicating that draws people toward the vision, and the horizon - Doug Firebaugh

Thoughts 18OCT2010

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners - Lord Chesterfield
Inspiration and genius - one and the same - Victor Hugo
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity - Michel de Montaigne

Thoughts 13OCT2010

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound - Herman Melville
Love is a verb as well as a noun. Love means a smile and never a frown. Love is to do and not just to feel. For unless you express it, love is never real - Unknown
Sometimes love has its ups and downs. Mostly though, there are more ups than downs and true love will weather any storm - Unknown

Thoughts 12OCT2010

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities - Aristotle
You must look into other people as well as at them - Lord Chesterfield
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them - J. G. Holland

Thoughts 11OCT2010

There are no classes in life for beginners : right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult - Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work - W. Humboldt
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it - Samuel Butler

Thoughts 08OCT2010

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! - Henry Drummond
The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn - Frederick William Robertson

Thoughts 07OCT2010

Throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness - Orison Swett Marden
Our small efforts at kindness can change people's lives more than we will ever know. Since it takes so little time and energy to change the world for the better, why not make an effort to do it every day? - Pat Williams
In the year ahead, may we treat our friends with kindness and our enemies with understanding - Unknown

Thoughts 06OCT2010

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters - Unknown
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable - Unknown
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail - Unknown

Thoughts 05OCT2010

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction - Henry Ward Beecher
We make our fortunes, and we call them fate - Earl of Beaconsfield
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts 04OCT2010

The ladder of success may now be an elevator, but it's still self-service - Unknown
Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan - American Proverb
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man - Unknown

Thoughts 01OCT2010

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next - Eastern Proverb
Passionate love and a cough cannot be concealed - Unknown
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet - Albert Schweitzer

Thoughts 30SEP2010

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind - Eric Hoffer
Life is the flower for which love is the honey - Victor Hugo
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions - Kahlil Gibran

Thoughts 29SEP2010

Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny - George Dana Boardman
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea - Latin Proverb
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash - George S Patton

Thoughts 28SEP2010

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true - Robert Brault
Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-to-myself project - Denis Waitley
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble - French Proverb

Thoughts 27SEP2010

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive - Joe Batten
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate - Dr Albert Schweitzer
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way - John C. Maxwell

Thoughts 24SEP2010

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves - Brian Tracy
It is that confidence in the leadership of that man or woman who guides, that enables people to forget the perils of the journey and the darkness of the night - Jerome A. Waterman
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus - Martin Luther King, Jr

Thoughts 23SEP2010

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion - Michael Cunningham
Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, elders will be without regret, and life will be a beautiful success - Unknown

Thoughts 22SEP2010

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were - Kahlil Gibran
Nothing is predestined : The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings - Ralph Blum
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor - Vince Lombardi

Thoughts 21SEP2010

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done - Vance Packard
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders - Tom Peters
Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are - Jim Rohn

Thoughts 20SEP2010

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves - Lao Tzu
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are - Amos Parrish
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better - Bill Bradley

Thoughts 17SEP2010

I've got to follow them - I am their leader - Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
The things you love, you'll loose someday. The things you fear, you'll face one day. Do what you have to do and make the most of every moment. Life is but short. Be happy! - Unknown
Life is too complicated not to be orderly - Martha Stewart

Thoughts 16SEP2010

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions - Harold S. Geneen
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack - Wayne Lukas
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says 'Go!' - a leader says 'Let's go!' - E.M Kelly

Thoughts 15SEP2010

Example is leadership - Dr Albert Schweitzer
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership - Dwight D Eisenhower
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to raise your own energy level and then to help orchestrate the energies of those around you - Peter Drucker

Thoughts 14SEP2010

For life to be meaningful, add a little sacrifice, subtract anger and hatred, multiply friends and divide love for everyone to share - Unknown
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use - Unknown
The beauty of life does not depend as to how happy you are, but as to how happy others can be because of you - Unknown

Thoughts 13SEP2010

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more - Jules Renard
Hear the meaning within the word - William Shakespeare
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages - Nichiren Daishonen

Selamat Hari Aidilfitri - Maaf Zahir & Batin

To All My Muslim Friends
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri,
Maaf Zahir dan Batin
Semoga Allah swt Memelihara Anda Semua Sekeluarga Sentiasa
Selamat Hari Lebaran
Minal Aidil Wal Fa' Izin
Happy Eid Ul Fitr
Enjoy The Holidays
Drive Carefully, Take Care
Give The Kids More Money, Eat More Food
BE GOOD - DO GOOD - THINK GOOD - FEEL GOOD
From All of Us in Seksyen 9, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, MALAYSIA - Haji Abdul Aziz Masod & Professor Dr Dean Hajah Noormala Dato' Amir Ishak - And The Children : Apai / Yameen / Ang / Amel / Nuryanti (the maid)

Thoughts 08SEP2010

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on - Walter Lippmann
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader - Dolly Parton
Leaders must be seen to be up front, up to date, up to their job and up early in the morning - Marcus Sieff

Thoughts 07SEP2010

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end - H Jackson Browne
There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind, the choice you make, makes you - Unknown
He that would be a leader must be a bridge - Welsh Proverb

Thoughts 06SEP2010

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest - George Matthew Allen
A good deed is never lost : he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love - Basil
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul - Democritus

Thoughts 03SEP2010

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult - Hypocrites
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities - Aldous Huxley

Thoughts 02SEP2010

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends - John Churton Collins
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life - French Proverb
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts 01SEP2010

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet - Joseph Joubert
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly - Isaac Asimov
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 30AUG2010

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth - Daniel Webster
What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you - Calvin Coolidge

Thoughts 27AUG2010

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure - William Feather
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it - Plutarch
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live - Elbert Hubbard

Thoughts 26AUG2010

Hope is the dream of a man awake - French Proverb
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead - Louisa May Alcott
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 25AUG2010

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character - Joseph Le Conte
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one - Henry David Thoreau
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 24AUG2010

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in - Napoleon Bonaparte
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way - Abraham Lincoln
Behind an able man there are always other able men - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 23AUG2010

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to no one - William Shakespeare
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted - Lao Tzu

Thoughts 20AUG2010

Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all she have - Author Unknown
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born - Anais Nin
Some men see things as they are and say why ... I dream of things that never were and say why not - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

Thoughts 19AUG2010

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them - J. Petit Senn
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think - La Bruyere
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes - St. Clement of Alexandra

Thoughts 18AUG2010

Use life to provide something that outlasts it - B. C. Forbes
Life for every person should be a journey in jubilance! - Charles Fillmore
Life is like a combination lock; your goal is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want - Brian Tracy

Thoughts 17AUG2010

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Unknown
If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within - Dan Millman
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency - Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Thoughts 16AUG2010

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough - Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes - these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and fighting their unseen battles - John Hall

Thoughts 13AUG2010

Life is change... Growth is optional... Choose wisely... - Author Unknown
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it - Author Unknown
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life - Author Unknown

Thoughts 12AUG2010

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness - William Arthur Ward
Don't expect to enjoy the cream of life if you keep your milk of human kindness all bottled up - Author Unknown
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain - Charles Fenno Hoffman

Thoughts 11AUG2010

Life is a team sport. Sometimes you give and sometimes you get - Ann Pearson
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together - Joseph Joubert
As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move - Katharine Hepburn

Thoughts 10AUG2010

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds - Buddha
You don't get in life what you want. You get what you are! - Les Brown
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets - Henry Miller

Thoughts 09AUG2010

The only limitation in your life is the limitation of your own thinking - James A Ray
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you - Thomas Leonard
Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal - Les Brown

Thoughts 06AUG2010

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness - it is usually returned - Cort R. Flint
Nothing multiplies so much as kindness - John Ray

Thoughts 05AUG2010

Those who do a kindness because they expect to be repaid are always disappointed - Chinese Proverb
Funny thing about kindness. The more it's used, the more you have of it - Unknown
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love - Lao Tzu

Thoughts 04AUG2010

Leadership is the practical application of character - Richard Meinertzhagen
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you - Max De Pree
See and think of yourself as a leader and then do what leaders do. Dare to go forward - Brian Tracy

Thoughts 03AUG2010

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are - Milton Berle
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles - Washington Irving

Thoughts 02AUG2010

One tree can start a forest, one smile can start a friendship, one touch can show you care, one love can make life worth living - Unknown
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction - Unknown
Good leaders guide the willing and persuade the stubborn - Unknown

Thoughts 28JUL2010

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve - Joseph Joubert
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself ... treat yourself as you would someone you really loved - Louise Hay
The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty - Bo Lozoff

Thoughts 27JUL2010

Life is about becoming more than we are - Oprah Winfrey
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not - Samuel Johnson
Life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other and whether you frost it or not is up to you - Ann Richards

Thoughts 26JUL2010

Love seeks not limits but outlets - Unknown
Coffee and love are best when they're hot - Unknown
I may not have shown you the real love in the way that you wanted me to, but, I am more than happy to love you in the way I understand love to be - Unknown Author

Thoughts 23JUL2010

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find - Unknown
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune - Unknown
The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings - Unknown

Thoughts 22JUL2010

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them - Chaim Weizmann
There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle - Leslie Ford
A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug - Patricia Neal

Thoughts 21JUL2010

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow - Rosemonde Gerard
Love may not make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile - Unknown
It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must show them that we do so - Lord Eric Avebury

Thoughts 20JUL2010

You cannot make anyone love you. What you can do is to let yourself be loved - Unknown
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself - Unknown
Love is sweet captivity - Czech Proverb
BE GOOD - DO GOOD - THINK GOOD - FEEL GOOD

Thoughts 19JUL2010

To deserve success is more important than to achieve it - Unknown
A good marriage is like a casserole: only those involved actually know what goes into it - Unknown
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence - Horace Mann

Thought 16JUL2010

FRIENDSHIP FROM THE HEART
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 am and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 & 70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.I know.

I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong. So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!
Source Unknown - The email originated from "Carol Lee Bee Lian/MY/CORP"; but I got it from Hanapiah Atan of CELCOM (forwarded over and over again on the email system). Too good not to be circulated or share it with you !!!

Thoughts 15JUL2010

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles - Bob Richards
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle - Walt Whitman
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable - Margaret Storm Jameson

Thoughts 09JUL2010

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave it broken than to hurt yourself trying to put them back with nothing to keep it together - Unknown

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A good marriage is the union of two forgivers - Unknown

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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change - Buddha

Thoughts 08JUL2010

Only love gives us the taste of eternity - Jewish Proverb
Love the one who cares for you not the one who ignore you. Love the one who makes you smile, not the one who makes your cry. Love the one who your heart seeks, not the one who makes you weep - Unknown
Love is true when you don't see eye to eye, but can still walk hand in hand - Unknown

Thoughts 07JUL2010

There is a giant asleep within every man. When the giant awakes, miracles happen - Frederick Faust
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances - Julia Soul
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself - Anna Quindlen

Thoughts 06JUL2010

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be - Rosalynn Carter
A leader's job is to make it easy to do the right thing and difficult to do the wrong thing - Unknown
What the eyes see lingers in the mind, what the ears hear stays on long enough, what the hands touch lives on for all eternity, what the heart loves is forever cherished by the soul - Unknown

Thoughts 05JUL2010

Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese Proverb
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome - Arthur Ashe
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time - Voltaire

Thoughts 02JUL2010

Dime con quien andas, y te dire quien eres / You can judge a man by the company he keeps - Spanish Proverb
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young - Unknown
No dejes camino por vereda / camino viejo por camino nuevo / A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 01JUL2010

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good - Joe Paterno
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future - Paul Boese
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity - O.A. Battista

Thoughts 30JUN2010

To convert ideas and good intentions into something real and positive requires time and perseverance - Unknown
Each day spent with the person you love is a new journey. It's full of surprises and likewise pain, but it also rewards fulfillment and happiness for those who never let go - Unknown
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal - Mike Ditka

Thoughts 29JUN2010

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration; then more practice and more concentration - Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Most relationship fail not because of the absence of love. Love is always present, it's just that one loved too much and the other loved too little - Unknown
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self... Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose - Jo Courdet

Thoughts 28JUN2010

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving - Albert Einstein
You get married not to be happy but to make each other happy - Unknown
Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow - Josh Liebman

Thoughts 23JUN2010

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future - Zig Ziglar
If you want to avoid traffic, get on the road to success - Unknown
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets - American Proverb

Thoughts 22JUN2010

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's - Grantland Rice
Success, real success, in any endeavor demands more from an individual than most people are willing to offer - not more than they are capable of offering - James Roche
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart - Kay Knudsen

Thoughts 21JUN2010

A Successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person - Unknown
The will to persevere in the face of obstacles is often the difference between success and failure - Unknown
To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart - Unknown

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Thoughts 18JUN2010

If I has to choose between loving you, and breathing. I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU - Dani B
How to fall in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand and hurt but never keep the pain - Unknown
Love is like a baby : it needs to be treated tenderly - African Proverb

Thoughts 17JUN2010

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance - Unknown
Golf, he replied, was much too serious a matter to be called a sport - John Pearson, James Bond : The Authorized Biography
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - Winston Churchill