Thoughts 31JAN2012

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour - Anonymous
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life - Richard Bach
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter - Lee Iacocca

Thoughts 30JAN2012

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it - Jonathan Winters
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment - Anonymous
Success is the proper utilization of failure - Anonymous

Thoughts 27JAN2012

The basis of self-discipline : Don’t allow the edges to blur - Michael Johnson
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person - Dr David M Burns
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat - Prince Phillip of England

Thoughts 26JAN2012

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer - Anonymous
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Lao Tse
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds - Sir Francis Bacon
You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Thoughts 13JAN2012

They say that nobody is perfect.Then they tell you that practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds - Wilt Chamberlain
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing - Anonymous
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do - Eleanor Roosevelt

Thoughts 12JAN2012

A small house will hold a hundred friends - African Proverb
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed - Emily Dickinson
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite - G K Chesterton
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends - Ethel Watts Mumford

Thoughts 11JAN2011

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you - Anonymous
That which a man willingly shares, he keeps. That which he selfishly keeps, he loses - Anonymous
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless - Sherry Anderson
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God - Anonymous

Thoughts 10JAN2012

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all - James Anthony Froude
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again - Michael Johnson

Thoughts 09JAN2012

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? - Marian Wright Edelman
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation - Oscar Wilde
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice - St Francis of Assisi
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes - Henry J Kaiser

Thoughts 06JAN2012

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit - Nigerian Proverb
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes - Oscar Wilde
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed - Storm Jameson

Thoughts 05JAN2012

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty - Joseph Addison
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform - Theodore H White
To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you – Tony Dorsett

Thoughts 04JAN2012

There are no mistakes, save one : the failure to learn from a mistake - Robert Fripp
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed - Carl Jung
Old love does not rust - Estonian Proverb
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides - David Viscott

Thoughts 03JAN2012

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity - Darrell Royal, Sports in America, 1976
Change yourself, change your fortunes - Portuguese Proverb
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure - Abraham Lincoln
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done - Allard Lowenstein, twentieth-century American diplomat