Thoughts 29JUN2012

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts - Unknown

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When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters; one represents danger and the other represents opportunity - John F Kennedy


Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever - Lance Armstrong

Thoughts 28JUN2012

DON'T QUIT

When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but just don't quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about. When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up though the pace seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you must not quit - Author Unknown

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Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can - Unknown

Thoughts 27JUN2012

It is said an Eastern Monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words : "And this, too, shall pass" - Abraham Lincoln

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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better - Colonel Harland Sanders

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thoughts 26JUN2012

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always - Oprah Winfrey

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Winners never quit and quitters never win - Vince Lombardi

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's - Billy Wilder

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Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will - Dr Robert Anthony

Thoughts 25JUN2012

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me - Ayn Rand

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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning - Ivy Baker Priest

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When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place - Unknown

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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you - Aldous Huxley

Thoughts 22JUN2012

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do - Benjamin Spock

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If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again - Flavia Weedn

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it - Wally Amos

Thoughts 21JUN2012

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them - Robert R Updegraff

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Authority, power and wealth do not change a man, they only reveal him - Imam Ali

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Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others - Richard Branson

Thoughts 20JUN2012

THINK ABOUT IT

A study conducted by the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, reported the following :

Learners retain :

10 percent of what they read;

20 percent of what they hear;

30 percent of what they see;

50 percent of what they see and hear;

70 percent of what they say;

90 percent of what they say and do.

Extracted from "Speaker's Sourcebook II", Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994

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There are two things to aim at in life; first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second - Logal Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

Thoughts 19JUN2012

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence - Hans Christian Andersen

To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed - Dan Diedorf

Thoughts 18JUN2012

It's not just great teachers that shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers ... Being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded - Julia Roberts

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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up - Tom Stoppard, Where Are They Now!

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We increasingly know things about each other (or think we do) that we should not know, have no right to know, and have a right, actually, not to know - Peggy Noonan, in the Wall Street Journal

Thoughts 15JUN2012

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you - Jim Rohn

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The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore - Dale Carnegie

Thoughts 14JUN2012

COURAGE

Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with its sorrow is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow - Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961). Journalist - cited in BITS & PIECES

Mischiefs comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 13JUN2012

ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Get to know yourself - what you can do and what you cannot do - for only you can make your life happy. Believe that by working, learning and achieving, you can reach your goals and be successful.

Believe in your own creativity as a means of expressing your true feelings. Believe in appreciating life. Be sure to have fun everyday and to enjoy the beauty in the world.

Believe in love. Love your friends, your family, yourself and your life. Believe in your dreams and your dreams can become a reality.

by Susan Polis Schutz

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Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious and mystical is to be happy - Arnaud Desjardins

Thoughts 12JUN2012

An average person with average ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius, if that person has clear, focused goals - Brian Tracy

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down - Charles F Kettering

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 Reagen

Thoughts 11JUN2012

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes - Hugh Prather

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination, they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building - Robert Collier

Thoughts 08JUN2012

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success - Thomas J Watson

All men of action are dreamers - James Huneker

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination; they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building - Robert Collier

Thoughts 07JUN2012

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover - Mark Twain

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed - Michael Jordan

Thoughts 06JUN2012

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances - Martha Washington

Thoughts 05JUN2012

ON DETERMINATION

You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends, will suddenly show up ... to trip you, blacken you and break your spirit.

John Rice - extracted from "Speaker's Sourcebook II", Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who can not - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 04JUN2012

LEADERS ENERGIZED
The world of the 90s and beyond will not belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business and jargon we use to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate driven leaders - people who not only have the enormous amount of energy but who can energize those who they lead.
Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric - extracted from "Speaker's Sourcebook II", Glen Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994
Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo / There's no substitute for experience - Spanish Proverb