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“Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.”
- David O. McKay
“To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.”
- Author Unknown“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. As yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman“The good that comes out of the bad things that happen to you is to help you become your best, most authentic self.”
- Mira Kirshenbaum“Only those who risk going far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- T.S. Elliot“Excellence can be attained if you…
Care more than others think is wise
Risk more than others think is safe
Dream more than others think is practical
Expect more than others think is possible.”
- Unknown“Be unafraid of the new. Your life is a collection of moments, each one leading you to the next beautiful discovery.”
- Unknown“Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller“Everything in moderation; nothing in excess.”
- Ancient Greek adageI5 = AVR
Intelligence x Ideas x Information x Intensity x Integrity = Added Value Results
- Gary SmithPEOPLE COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A REASON
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.!
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.
- UnknownSUCCESS IS A STATE OF MIND.
If you truly want to be successful,
start thinking of yourself as successful.
The only thing that stands between you
and what you want from life,
is simply the will to try it
and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There is nothing on earth that you can’t have,
once you mentally accept the fact that you can have it.
The feeling must come first.
If you actually feel successful,
if you have a deep inner conviction
that you’ll always have all that you need, it will be so.
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe in,
your mind can help you achieve.
- UnknownSometimes the fate of life drives too fast…
You feel quiet and overcome by the emotions withheld from in, forget the morel obligation to which you stand for… Nonetheless stand for what you believe. Dream the dream and achieve THE what you deserve. You are one with one so I know the feelings you deal with. I love you, you’re a friend for life, and you’re the bomb!
- Andy Fields“Be guided by the stars and not by the lights of the passing ships.”
- Unknown“When in doubt, do what is right. It will please some, and astonish the rest.”
- Mark Twain“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
- George Washington“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
- Japanese Proverb“God sends many people into my life. Some come only for a moment; others, for months or even years. Perhaps God will use me as a conduit to show them the good news of his son. For this reason, I believe their presence in my life is by no means a coincidence.”
- Share Jesus Without Fear, William Fay “The Secret of Success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.”
- Herodotus“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
- Thomas Alva Edison“Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.”
- Albert Einstein“Courage is resistence to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
- Mark Twain“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson“There is no education like adversity.”
- Benjamin DisraeliMy Symphony
To live content with small means;
to seek elegance, rather than luxury;
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable
and wealthy, not rich;
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with an open heart;
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up
through the commonplace.
This is to be my symphony.
- William Henry Channing“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
- Lou Holtz, Successful College Football Coach“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”
- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), English Clergyman and Author“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.”
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French Chemist“We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
- Lee Iacocca, American Business Executive “Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
- Edward De Bono, Maltese Psychologist and Writer“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching forward.”
- Henry Ford (1863-1946), American Inventor and Businessman“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
- Denis Waitley, American Author and Speaker“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), 7th President of the United States“Don’t let the search for the great idea blind you to the merely good or promising idea. Often that’s all the warrior needs.”
- Bob Metcalfe, American Inventor and Entrepreneur“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
- Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975), American Physician and Author“Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German Poet, Dramatist, and Scientist“A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.”
- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), English Physician, Poet, Philosopher, and Naturalist“Out of every crisis comes the choice to be reborn… to choose the kind of change that will help us to grow and fulfill ourselves more completely.”
- Nena O’Neill, American Author“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.”
- Herodotus, Ancient Greek Historian“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.”
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American Clergyman“Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
- Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), English Novelist, Biographer, and Playwright“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
- Walter A. Elliott (1892-1966), American Army Colonel“No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal.”
- Bette Davis (1908-1989), American Actor“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986), Hungarian Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
- Epictetus (A.D. 55-c. 135), Greek Philosopher“Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your thinking.”
- Susan Taylor, American Editor and Writer“The mere formulation of a problem is often far more essential than its solution. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American Physicist“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
- Socrates, Ancient Greek Philosopher“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
- Tom Peters, American Businessman, Author, and Speaker“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, becaue your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
- John Wooden, Successful College Basketball Coach“Almost nothing immunizes you from day-to-day frustration more than a healthy sense of humor, particularly the ability to laugh at yourself.”
- Richard Carlson, American Author and Speaker“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), NFL Hall of Fame Coach“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
- Bill Gates, American EntrepreneurA T T I T U D E
“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, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, 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. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day 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% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.”
- Charles Swindoll “I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.”
- Pablo Picasso“Hang in there. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it… Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
- Goethe“The heart already knows… What the mind can only dream of… Trust your heart.”
- Unknown “No one can possibly know what is about to happen; it is happening each time, for the first time, for the only time.”
- James Baldwin “One can never creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
- Helen KellerFaith Dares to go beyond what the eyes can see… “FOR WE LIVE BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.”
(2 Corinthians 5:7)“He’s got heart, HE’S GOT HEART, WE’VE GOT HEART, Let’s Rock!”
- Foster Weyand 8-16-99Opportunity Is All Around You.
The people that really succeed in the world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, they make them.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity in your life is where you are right now. Properly perceived, every situation becomes an opportunity for you.
Your destiny isn’t a matter of chance, It’s a matter of choice. It’s not something you wait for, but rather something you achieve with effort. Things won’t turn up in this world until you turn them up.
You develop opportunity by applying persistence to your possibilities. You’re surrounded by opportunity.
- Author Unknown“It Couldn’t Be Done”
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done. But he with a chuckle replied that “maybe it couldn’t”, but he would be one who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin on his face. If he worried he hit it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: “Oh you’ll never do that; at least no one ever has done it”; but he took off his coat and he took off his hat, and the firt thing we knew he’d begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, without any doubting or quiddit, he started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done. There are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin. Just take off your coat and go to it. Just start to sing as you tackle the thing that “Cannot be done”, and you’ll do it.
- Edgar A. Guest