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