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Table of Contents Section I – Quotes by Subject Abundance Achievement Attitude Business Change Daily Determination Education Encouragement Engagement Famous Fathers Forgiveness Friendship Funny Goals Good Quotes Happiness Hope Humor

Imagination Inspirational Leadership Life Love & Romance Money Mothers Motivation Movie New Years Perseverance Persistence Prosperity Purpose Success The Secret Thinking Trust Valentine’s Winning

Section II – Quotes by Author Albert Einstein Anthony Robbins Bob Proctor Brian Tracy Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Earl Nightingale Jack Canfield Jim Rohn

Martin Luther King Jr. Maya Angelou Mother Teresa Napoleon Hill Thomas A. Edison Walt Disney Wayne Dyer William Shakespeare Zig Ziglar

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Section I Quotes by Subject

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Abundance Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. Wayne Dyer When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears. Anthony Robbins You will not suddenly develop wealth consciousness if and when you become wealthy. It's the other way around. You develop wealth consciousness by eliminating worry, by trusting in the universe and in your own inner resources. Once you secure your wealth consciousness, true abundance is just around the corner. Richard Carlson Abundance is about being rich with or without money. Suze Orman Life in abundance comes only through great love. Elbert Hubbard When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. Joel Osteen The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. Franklin D. Roosevelt To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha

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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive Abundance for your giving. W. Clement Stone What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. Eileen Caddy Saving money is a worthwhile goal, but by itself it won't bring you economic abundance. The third key to mastering your finances is to increase your wealth. To accomplish this, you must spend less than you earn, invest the difference, and reinvest your returns for compounded growth. Compounding puts your money to work for you by increasing it exponentially. The pace at which you achieve financial independence is in direct proportion to your willingness to reinvest not spend the profits of your past investments. Anthony Robbins Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. Deepak Chopra Abundance is, in large part, an attitude. Sue Patton Thoele Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. John Petit-Senn Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer

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When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears. Anthony Robbins The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein

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Achievement Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. W. Clement Stone Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. Robert H. Schuller We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. Take a risk a day one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. Susan Jeffers There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frederic Chopin To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Originality and the feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. John F. Kennedy Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Maya Angelou Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. Bo Bennett Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. George Lucas A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!. Walter Bagehot

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Kurt Lewin He, who moves not forward, goes backward. Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Rubin

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Attitude The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. Victor Frankl The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. Norman Vincent Peale Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. Brian Tracy We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes. Zig Ziglar Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success. Denis Waitley 12


You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise. Zig Ziglar If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. Amy Tan Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. William James A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. Brian Tracy The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home, etc. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our Attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our Attitudes. Charles R. Swindoll You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy 13


The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. William James Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein

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Business The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter F. Drucker I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" That's what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world. Bill Gates I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly. Robert Louis Stevenson The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. Warren Buffett As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier I really want people to know that I’ve worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn’t just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity. Magic Johnson

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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win if you don't you won't. Bruce Jenner Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. Henry Ford Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. Norman Vincent Peale Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations. Azim Premji The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations... (they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn) but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. Michael Gerber The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. Mark Cuban Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. Henry R. Luce In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all. Carl Icahn 16


Quality questions create a quality life. Businesses succeed when their decision makers ask the right questions about product lines or markets or strategic planning. Relationships flourish when people ask the right questions about where potential conflicts exist and how to support each other rather than tearing each other down. Communities benefit when leaders ask the right questions about what is most important and how citizens can work together toward shared goals. For whatever area of your life you want to improve, there are questions you can ask that will provide you with answers, solutions that can catapult you and those you love to a higher level of success and enjoyment. Anthony Robbins

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Change If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself & make a change. Michael Jackson Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis When in doubt, choose change. Lily Leung Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin. Denise McCluggage If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Gail Sheehy 18


By changing nothing, nothing changes. Anthony Robbins If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung All great changes are preceded by chaos. Deepak Chopra Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. Hugh Prather Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. Winston Churchill If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Mary Engelbreit Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. Keri Russell The key to change, is to let go of fear. Rosanne Cash In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. Nathaniel Branden 19


Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Margaret Mead There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus

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Daily Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love. Chris Burke Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. Albert Clarke If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. Ben Irwin A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. Jesse Jackson Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men. Albert Einstein The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing. Leo Babauta 21


Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox Everything comes too late for those who only wait. Elbert Hubbard Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. Charles Wilson People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing that’s why we recommend both daily. Zig Ziglar I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau Depend upon yourself. Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgment will be much in your favor. Grantland Rice The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. Paul Cezanne

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Determination America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S. Truman Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Christian Nestell Bovee Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Socrates The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. Roger Bannister Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. Iain Duncan Smith 23


The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi Do good and care not to whom. Italian Proverb The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. Tommy Lasorda The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. Orison Sweet Marden If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Sydney Smith If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know. Hugh Prather

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Montaigne I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened. Wilma Rudolph All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it. Eileen Caddy I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. Charles Dickens If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell

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Education Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson When you know better you do better. Maya Angelou I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. Alan K. Simpson Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. Aristotle

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Encouragement Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

William Arthur Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the best parts of being a family is that you can encourage one another. You can believe in one another. You can affirm one another. Stephen R. Covey You cannot make it as a wandering generality, you must become a meaningful specific. Zig Ziglar When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on for life. Franklin D. Roosevelt The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement. William Ward You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. Jim Stovall Shoot for the moon. If you don't get there, you'll still be heading for a star. Willis Reed Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals. Zig Ziglar 29


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 What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. Elizabeth Harrison Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action. Zig Ziglar The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest of dreams. Sidney Madwed Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement, and we will make the goal. Jerome Fleishman

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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. Patti Smith

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Engagement The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key. Frederick Saunders The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Virgil We may have started as individuals but now we are as one. Byron Pulsifer If you have to think about whether you love someone or not, then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know. Janice Markowitz Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leunig Love reminds you that nothing else matters. Amy Bushnell

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I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, A church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for, He said one that would make me his wife. Unknown Author Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein A future filled with happiness our special wish for you and days filled with joy and happiness hoping all your dreams come true. Unknown Author Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning

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Famous I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. Bill Cosby No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. The Buddha Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. Calvin Coolidge If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. Confucius 34


I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. Dalai Lama Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." Eleanor Roosevelt Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. Mark Twain 35


Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin Luther King, Jr. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. Oprah Winfrey It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. Robert H. Schuller Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. St. Augustine Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve Jobs

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. Thomas A. Edison I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities.... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill

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Fathers A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. Carol Coats By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. Charles Wadsworth My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. Lydia M. Child He didn't tell me how to live... He lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. Unknown Author It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. Johann Schiller A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. Unknown Author A father carries pictures where his money used to be. Unknown Author A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold 38


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. Unknown Author I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Mario Cuomo The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Confucius

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Forgiveness There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. Stephen Richards Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. Mason Cooley 40


Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. Ted Chiang Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. Confucius To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. W. Paul Young A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission. Santosh Kalwar We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it. Bree Despain

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Friendship The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves. M. Scott Peck The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Francis Bacon Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck 42


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elizabeth Foley The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. Arnold H. Glasgow

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Funny If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor. Joan Rivers A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong. Unknown Author Don’t you find it Funny that after Monday (M) and Tuesday (T), the rest of the week says WTF? Unknown Author A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist. Franklin Jones Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. Robert A. Heinlein When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. Norm Crosby By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. Mark Twain I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. WC Fields Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill Smile; If you can’t lift the corners, let the middle sag. Unknown Author 44


The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets. Al McGuire They’ve finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. Milton Berle It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. Steven Weinberg Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. Jerry Seinfeld The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. Albert Einstein When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. George Burns Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button. Unknown Author

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Goals Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history, but give me a man without a goal and I'll give you a stock clerk. J. C. Penney Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement. Greg Werner The most important thing about goals is having one. Geoffry F. Abert Begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey The reason most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed. Jim Rohn To be successful you've got to have a dream, a vision, a burning passion, a magnificent obsession. This dream, goal, obsession has to become your prime motivator. It takes enthusiasm, commitment, pride, a willingness to work hard. A willingness to go the extra mile. A willingness to do whatever has to be done in order to get the job done. Jeffrey J. Mayer Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther. Orison Swett Marden An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. Brian Tracy

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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life. Gary Ryan Blair The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success. Brian Tracy If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, then you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. Brain Tracy We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short term obstacles. Jim Rohn The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. Cecil B. DeMille 47


Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by (1000%) one thousand percent! Brian Tracy You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming. Jim Rohn When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up. Zig Ziglar

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Good Quotes It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. Aristotle In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. Sun Tzu It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. Benjamin Disraeli To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, Huh. It works. It makes sense. Barack Obama A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. Henry Ford Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Plato Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. Bob Proctor It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Anthony Robbins Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" Brian Tracy

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie When you get, give. When you learn, teach. Maya Angelou Stop stewing and start doing! Take action Today, Not Tomorrow (TNT). Denis Waitley It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. Jim Rohn

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Happiness In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. Albert Clarke It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. Dale Carnegie The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. James M. Barrie Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery. Anne Frank No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skeleton Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Roosevelt

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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of un-charitableness and angry feeling in the world. Joseph Addison Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. W. L. Shirer Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. Greg Anderson No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen Keller

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Hope Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action. Faith, hope and discipline enable you to follow through to completion. Zig Ziglar We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future. Zig Ziglar Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. Elbert Hubbard Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. Charles Kettering When you put faith, hope and love together you can raise positive kids in a negative world. Zig Ziglar If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Jacques Yves Cousteau Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement. Zig Ziglar I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Benjamin Disraeli He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Thomas Carlyle

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Humor When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter F. Drucker A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips Three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere: "Hold my purse." Unknown Author I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. Will Rogers The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. Thomas Paine Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar Wilde I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. W. C. Fields I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. Robert Orben 56


TV has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Ann Landers I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Joan Rivers If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight. George Globol It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. Dave Barry If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment. Dave Allen Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Marilyn Monroe

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Imagination The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. Jesse Jackson Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso The imagination is man’s power over nature. Wallace Stevens Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. Thomas Carlyle Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George Smith I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. Chris Brown

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum Man is an imagining being. Richard Bach Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon I reject your reality and substitute it for my own. Adam Savage Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. James D. Finley The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. Andre Breton

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Inspirational We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Barck Obama If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now build foundations under them". Henry David Thoreau Never consider the possibility of failure, as long as you persist you will be successful. Brian Tracy The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill I believe the emotions that many of us consider negative - like frustration and rejection and pain - can be our greatest friends because they can drive us to success. Anthony Robbins No great man ever complains of want or opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson You become what you think about all day long. Earl Nightingale If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. Dr. Stephen Covey

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of achieving them by one-thousand percent. Brian Tracy The greatest successes in the world are people who often had so much pain from a failure that it drove them to much greater success. Anthony Robbins Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

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Leadership Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. Brian Tracy I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader You know you're a success when people tell you, "I like me best when I'm with you". Denis Waitley A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. Tom Landry Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. Brian Tracy Real power comes from empowering others! Denis Waitley Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren G. Bennis The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair

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Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position. Brian Tracy Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. John D. Rockefeller If I help you win, then I win too! Denis Waitley Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. Jesse Jackson Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. Brian Tracy Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences. Margaret J. Wheatley Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform. Brian Tracy Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. Jesse Jackson The three "C's" of leadership are Consideration, Caring, and Courtesy. Be polite to everyone. Brian Tracy

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Mother Teresa Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake up and live! Bob Marley Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved. Author Unknown The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand break on. Maxwell Maltz Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There are two great days in one’s life, the first is the day we were born, the second is the day we realize why. Author Unknown

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Love and Romance I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. William Somerset Maugham Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me. Lord Byron The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to being free. Robert G. Ingersoll It is impossible to love and be wise. Francis Bacon The only true gift is a portion of yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. Shakespeare Pains of love be sweeter far than any other pleasures are. John Dryden

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Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot. Rusty Silvey Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. Victor Hugo Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Burr

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Money Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Warren Buffett Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. Robert Frost Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. Kay Ingram When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. Wayne Dyer Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. Walt Disney Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. Clifford Odets Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen Time is Money. Benjamin Franklin I can make more generals, but horses cost money. Abraham Lincoln 70


When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde Money is usually attracted, not pursued. Jim Rohn The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson The lack of money is the root of all evil. Mark Twain Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr. There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. Oscar Wilde Time has more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn

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Mothers The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. Rajneesh A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. Unknown Author There was never a great man who had not a great mother... it is hardly an exaggeration. Olive Schreiner A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott-Maxwell Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. Oprah Winfrey The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Unknown Author A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. Tenneva Jordan

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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese Proverb If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. Lawrence Housman That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Motivation People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life. Jim Rohn The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale Man's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William E. Channing Tough times never last, but tough people do. Dr. Robert Schuller Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. Stephen R. Covey Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My suggestion would be to walk away from the ninety percent who don't and join the top ten percent who do. Jim Rohn If not us, who? If not now, when? John F. Kennedy Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there! Will Rogers We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win. Og Mandino Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte

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Movie Line: You had me at 'hello.' Movie: Jerry Maguire Character: Dorothy Boyd Actress: Renée Zellweger Line: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Movie: Battle of Britain Character: Winston Churchill Actor: Winston Churchill Line: Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast. Movie: King Kong Character: Robert Armstrong Actor: Carl Denham Line: Failure is not an option. Movie: Apollo 13 Character: Gene Kranz Actor: Ed Harris Line: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Movie: Gone with the Wind Character: Rhett Butler Actor: Clark Gable Line: Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity & desperation made us more attractive? Movie: Broadcast News Character: Aaron Altman Actor: Albert Brooks

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Line: He's too beautiful, he's too much twisted steel and sex appeal. I can't be with a guy that looks like I won him in a raffle. Movie: Always Character: Dorinda Durston Actress: Holly Hunter Line: My two boys, I put one through college, and the other, I put through a wall. Movie: Back to School Character: Lou Actor: Burt Young Line: Ordinarily, I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too. Movie: L.A. Story Character: Harris K. Telemacher Actor: Steve Martin Line: Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go! Movie: On Golden Pond Character: Ethel Thayer Actress: Katharine Hepburn Line: We had a nice couple of minutes together. She threatened me, I patronized her. Didn't have anything to eat, but I thought there was a connection. Movie: The American President Character: Andrew Shepherd Actor: Michael Douglas

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Line: Nobody puts Baby in a corner. Movie: Dirty Dancing Character: Johnny Castle Actor: Patrick Swayze

Line: Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? Movie: Jerry Maguire Character: Jerry Maguire Actor: Tom Cruise

Line: Show me the money! Movie: Jerry Maguire Character: Rod Tidwell Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr. Line: Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' Movie: Casablanca Character: Ilsa Lund Actress: Ingrid Bergman

Line: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Movie: Wall Street Character: Gordon Gekko Actor: Michael Douglas

Line: Well, maybe I overshot a little because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out. Movie: As Good as It Gets Character: Melvin Udall Actor: Jack Nicholson

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New Years We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. Ellen Goodman Cheers to New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. Eileen Caddy People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Years, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Years and Christmas. Unknown Author Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. Michael Josephson The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. G. K. Chesterton We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce 79


Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. Henry Ward Beecher Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. Douglas Pagels One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. John Burroughs For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. Arthur H. Sulzberger

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Perseverance I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D. Rockefeller Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. Scott Hamilton Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. Winston Churchill Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. Paula Abdul If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. Gillian Anderson You cannot tailor make the situations in life but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations. Zig Ziglar Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Nicholas Murray Butler Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. Jim Rohn I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Frank Knox What I think about, I bring about. The thought of success will foster success. The thought of love will foster love. The thought of security will foster security. What am I thinking about today? Rita Davenport

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Persistence The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. Milton Glaser The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. James Whitcomb Riley Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. Kiana Tom Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. Bjorn Borg Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. Denis Waitley I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through persistence. The Buddha Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries. Christopher Pike Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities; It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. Thomas Carlyle It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going. Rodolfo Costa As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. Paul Kane Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. James Whitcomb Riley

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill

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Prosperity There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. Wayne Dyer As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. Caroline Kennedy No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. Dean Koontz I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. William Howard Taft Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Aristotle The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. Lee Iacocca You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. Paul Getty If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. Winston Churchill Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools. Wellins Calcott Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped. Calvin Coolidge 86


We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. Cesar Chavez The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity or it will move apart. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Purpose Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams 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. Denis Waitley The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. John Maxwell More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. Billy Sunday The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Montaigne Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. John D. Rockefeller

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. Dale Carnegie The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. E.M. Gray Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Washington Irving To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winners are people with definite purpose in life. Denis Waitley When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself. Brian Tracy There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. Napoleon Hill

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Success Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. Anthony Robbins You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. Dr. Stephen Covey

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Success equals goals; all else is commentary. Brian Tracy You must clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, 1. You're willing to take massive action. 2. You notice what's working and what's not working. 3. You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. Anthony Robbins Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately. Dr. Stephen Covey Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read? Jim Rohn The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins

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Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance. Dr. Stephen Covey Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Jim Rohn Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. Brian Tracy More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny. Anthony Robbins Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it. Dr. Stephen Covey

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The Secret As above, so below. As within, so without. The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 B.C. The Secret Thoughts become things. Mike Dooley The Secret Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course. See it's the feeling that really creates the attraction not just the picture or the thought. Jack Canfield The Secret Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right. Henry Ford The Secret Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged, chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. Michael Beckwith The Secret Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein The Secret You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts. Joe Vitale The Secret

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We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infinite capacity. Michael Beckwith The Secret All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha The Secret Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life. Marci Shimoff The Secret You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. Michael Beckwith The Secret It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher. Joe Vitale The Secret When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body. Dr. Denis Waitley The Secret You can have, do or be anything you want. Joe Vitale The Secret

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You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, and go for what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't all want the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want _______, fill in the blank. Joe Vitale The Secret Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell The Secret We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited. Michael Beckwith The Secret The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James The Secret

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Thinking The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes. Gandhi Let’s start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought. Bob Proctor Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about. John Demartini Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Jack Canfield All thought is a form of energy, a rate of vibration, but a thought of the Truth is the highest rate of vibration known and consequently destroys every form of error in exactly the same way that light destroys darkness; no form of error can exist when the “Truth” appears, so that your entire mental work consists in coming into an understanding of the Truth. This will enable you to overcome every form of lack, limitation or disease of any kind. Charles F. Haanel What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. The Buddha

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A person is what he thinks about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought. James Allen Send out your thought that the right situation or the right work will come to you at the right time, in the right way, and that you will recognize it when it comes. Hold to this thought, never allow it to weaken, hold to it, and continually water it with firm expectation. Ralph Wald Trine What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. Brian Tracy All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. James Allen You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. Joe Vitale Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve. W. Clement Stone Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions. Charles F. Haanel Meditation brings wisdom. Lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. Buddha 97


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Trust Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust Abraham Lincoln You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” Anton Chekhov As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave. Nicole Kidman Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust. James Cash Penney The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. Cher 99


I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men. Andie MacDowell To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. John F. Kennedy Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts. Fred L. Turner There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome. Sherilyn Fenn Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. Lemony Snicket Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level. Robert C. Solomon To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. George MacDonald

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Valentine’s If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. Unknown Author Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. Unknown Author Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. Joan Crawford Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. Unknown Author Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. Edgar Yipsel Harburg At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. Unknown Author

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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke Many are the stars I see, but in my eye no star like thee. Unknown Author You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. Jonathan Carroll Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you. Unknown Author If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou

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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Jalal-Uddin Rumi You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Unknown Author Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey

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Winning The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. Chuck Noll Winning is never whining. Denis Waitley Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before. Bonnie Blair Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time. Denis Waitley Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions. Paul Tsongas My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar. Conrad Hall Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. Vince Lombardi Winning is being glad you're you. Denis Waitley There is winning and there is misery. Bill Parcells 104


A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King Winning is a feeling, there is no ceiling. Denis Waitley Swimming isn't everything, winning is. Mark Spitz Winning is a habit. Leo Durocher Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi Winning is beginning, and by beginning the game is half won. Denis Waitley A winning effort begins with preparation. Joe Gibbs Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. Bum Phillips When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. Winston Churchill Winning is all in the attitude! Denis Waitley Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. Catfish Hunter

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Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. Albert Einstein Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. Albert Einstein The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. Albert Einstein Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. Albert Einstein I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice. Albert Einstein I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player. Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein

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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein

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Anthony Robbins What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action. Anthony Robbins You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Anthony Robbins People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them. Anthony Robbins Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. Anthony Robbins It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. Anthony Robbins

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Life is a gift and all of us who have the capacity must remember that we have the responsibility to give something back; a small but consistent commitment of time and caring can make a measurable difference in the world. Anthony Robbins You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Anthony Robbins Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Anthony Robbins You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Anthony Robbins We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. Anthony Robbins More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny. Anthony Robbins The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. Anthony Robbins The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to into the impossible. Anthony Robbins

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Bob Proctor Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. Bob Proctor The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. Bob Proctor It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. Bob Proctor Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they’re going after what they think they can get. Bob Proctor The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance. Bob Proctor Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals. Bob Proctor Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson. Bob Proctor Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. Bob Proctor 113


All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition. Bob Proctor Money is only used for two things. One, it’s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. Bob Proctor I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It’s like driving a car. It’s simple if you know how to do it. Bob Proctor If you know what to do to reach your goal, it’s not a big enough goal. Bob Proctor No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. Bob Proctor If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract. Bob Proctor Money is only used for two things. One, it’s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. Bob Proctor Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. Bob Proctor

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Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Brian Tracy Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. Brian Tracy Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! Brian Tracy No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself. Brian Tracy The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else. Brian Tracy Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Brian Tracy You have great, untapped reserves of potential within you. Your job is to release them. Brian Tracy

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Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. Brian Tracy Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. Brian Tracy You are surrounded by a universal mind that contains all the intelligence, ideas and knowledge that have ever existed. Brian Tracy Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" Brian Tracy If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. Brian Tracy If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed. Brian Tracy Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. Brian Tracy

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Dale Carnegie It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Dale Carnegie We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. Dale Carnegie There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegie If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. Dale Carnegie Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Dale Carnegie Today is life, the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie

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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. Dale Carnegie Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Dale Carnegie Success is getting what you want.. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie

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Denis Waitley Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Denis Waitley We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves. Denis Waitley Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight. Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. Denis Waitley Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. Denis Waitley

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. Denis Waitley The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley Chase your passion, not your pension. Denis Waitley Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. Denis Waitley Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. Denis Waitley You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. Denis Waitley It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. Denis Waitley

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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. Denis Waitley Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art... an individual masterpiece. Denis Waitley

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Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! Earl Nightingale Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale As you think, so shall you become. Earl Nightingale We become what we think about. Earl Nightingale Courage changes things for the better. With courage, you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. Earl Nightingale What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside. Earl Nightingale Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. Earl Nightingale We tend to live up to our expectations. Earl Nightingale

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. Earl Nightingale People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. Earl Nightingale The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. Earl Nightingale Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Earl Nightingale Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Earl Nightingale To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. Earl Nightingale All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. Earl Nightingale

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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. Earl Nightingale Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. Earl Nightingale

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Jack Canfield Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate. Jack Canfield People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Jack Canfield Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us. Jack Canfield Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course. See it's the feeling that really creates the attraction not just the picture or the thought. Jack Canfield Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches. Jack Canfield One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. Jack Canfield I think as you meditate over the years you evolve--your practice gets deeper, and you reach new levels of inner peace and awareness. Jack Canfield 127


There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it! Jack Canfield Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle. Jack Canfield If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking. Jack Canfield

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Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. Jim Rohn Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom. Jim Rohn Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. Jim Rohn It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. Jim Rohn Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn Don't join an easy crowd. You won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform and achieve are high. Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Jim Rohn

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Jim Rohn You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim Rohn Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. Jim Rohn Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. Jim Rohn We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. Jim Rohn The few who do are the envy of the many who watch. Jim Rohn Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. Jim Rohn Success is what you attract by the person you become. Jim Rohn

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Martin Luther King Jr. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King Jr. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King Jr Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. Martin Luther King Jr The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King Jr Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King Jr

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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King Jr The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. Martin Luther King Jr When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King Jr Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. Martin Luther King Jr We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King Jr A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King Jr Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King Jr

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Maya Angelou When you get, give. When you learn, teach. Maya Angelou I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. Maya Angelou Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. Maya Angelou Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go". Maya Angelou We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Maya Angelou Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou

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Napoleon Hill Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Napoleon Hill Money without brains is always dangerous. Napoleon Hill Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. Napoleon Hill It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. Napoleon Hill Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Napoleon Hill 135


Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. Napoleon Hill Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. Napoleon Hill Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win that is essential to success. Napoleon Hill You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. Napoleon Hill Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napoleon Hill The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill 136


A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. Napoleon Hill It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served. Napoleon Hill

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Mother Teresa Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy. Mother Teresa The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. Mother Teresa The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. Mother Teresa It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Mother Teresa It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. Mother Teresa Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we are ready, and prepared, to die with a clean heart. Mother Teresa

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. Mother Teresa Life is a game, play it. Mother Teresa

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Thomas A. Edison I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. Thomas A. Edison If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand, without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it. Thomas A. Edison Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work. Thomas A. Edison The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-tameness. Thomas A. Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison

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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful. Thomas A. Edison I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. Thomas A. Edison I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas A. Edison Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work. Thomas A. Edison Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas A. Edison Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Thomas A. Edison

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Walt Disney You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney A man should never neglect his family for business. Walt Disney I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. Walt Disney When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. Walt Disney Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. Walt Disney What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do. Walt Disney Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. Walt Disney All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney

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If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. Walt Disney We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. Walt Disney I believe in being an innovator. Walt Disney I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney

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Wayne Dyer If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy. Wayne Dyer Conflict cannot survive without your participation. Wayne Dyer Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right! Wayne Dyer What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer It's never crowded along the extra mile. Wayne Dyer Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say. Wayne Dyer There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. Wayne Dyer Our intention creates our reality. Wayne Dyer There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer 145


Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. Wayne Dyer Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. Wayne Dyer You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back. Wayne Dyer Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. Wayne Dyer You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, "I release the need for this in my life". Wayne Dyer

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William Shakespeare The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. William Shakespeare To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. William Shakespeare Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. William Shakespeare If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. William Shakespeare 147


Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. William Shakespeare Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare I say there is no darkness but ignorance. William Shakespeare When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue. William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. William Shakespeare False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare

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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. William Shakespeare I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. William Shakespeare What's done can't be undone. William Shakespeare A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare It were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. William Shakespeare As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. William Shakespeare

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Zig Ziglar You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific. Zig Ziglar You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise. Zig Ziglar Where you start is not as important as where you finish. Zig Ziglar You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them. Zig Ziglar It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude. Zig Ziglar The most influential person you will talk to all day is you. Zig Ziglar Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently. Zig Ziglar

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You have to Be before you can Do and Do before you can Have. Zig Ziglar It is not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. Zig Ziglar

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