Enlightening
Words of Wisdom
"Every great work, every great accomplishment,
has been brought into manifestation through holding to the
vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes
apparent failure and discouragement."
Florence
Scovel Shinn
Artist and Author
"Things
turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out."
Art
Linkletter
Radio and TV Personality
"Nothing
will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome."
Samuel
Johnson
1709-1784, Author
"Security
is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the
children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no
safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a
daring adventure, or nothing."
Helen Keller
1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer
"Behold
the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck
out."
James Bryant Conant
1893-1978, Educator and Diplomat
"Good
timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the
stronger the trees."
J. Willard Marriott
Founder of Marriott Hotels
"I
do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work.
That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but
it will get you pretty near."
Margaret
Thatcher
Former British Prime Minister
"If
you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing
itself, you can't help but learn."
Bernie Siegel, MD
Doctor, Author and Lecturer
"Stand
up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find
that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, Pastor, Speaker and Author
"Lots
of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never
tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go
on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep
believing and keep on keeping on."
Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, Pastor, Speaker and Author
"A
mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you,
than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you."
Bob Proctor
Author, Speaker and Success Coach
"I
have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that
cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something
without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."
Greg LeMond Cyclist, 3 Times Winner of the Tour de France
"Look
at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first
or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with
glory."
Betty Smith
1896-1972, Novelist
"Someday" may never come. So live each day better than
the last. That way you'll wake up with so much excitement and
anticipation you'll jump out of bed and shout "I can't
wait!"
Bob Perks
Author and Speaker
"Plenty
of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never
found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
William
Feather
1889-1981, Writer
"It
is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most
victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is
defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."
Ben
Stein
Professor and Writer
"It
is not what happens to you that determines how far you go in
life; it is what you do with what happens to you."
Zig
Ziglar
"Success
is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts."
Winston
Churchill
"
Opportunity
is missed by
most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work."
Thomas
A Edison
"Genius
is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent
perspiration."
Thomas
A Edison
"Better
to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and
remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
"Give
a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime."
Chinese
Proverb
"I
have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost
almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take
the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over
and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I
succeed."
Michael Jordan
"The
only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my
measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with
their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
George
Bernard Shaw
1856-1950,
Playwright
"People
are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do
not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this
world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances
they want, and if they cannot find them, make them."
George
Bernard Shaw
1856-1950,
Playwright
"You
miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."
Wayne
Gretzky
"When
written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of
two characters. One represents danger and the other represents
opportunity."
John
F. Kennedy
"The
difference between great people and everyone else is that great
people create their lives actively, while everyone else is
created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life
takes them next. The difference between the two is the
difference between living fully and just existing."
Michael
E. Gerber
"When
you judge another, you do not define them, you define
yourself."
Wayne
Dyer
"The
state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your
state of mind."
Dr.
Wayne W. Dyer
"There
is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love
to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it
happen."
Wayne
Dyer
"The
state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your
state of mind."
Wayne
Dyer
"Chains
of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be
broken."
Warren
Buffett
"Do
not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where
you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
Napoleon
Hill
"Most
misfortunes are the results of misused time."
Napoleon
Hill
"The
best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing
the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napoleon
Hill
1883-1970,
Speaker and Motivational Writer
"There
is one quality that 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
"When
your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess
superhuman powers to achieve."
Napoleon
Hill
"Reduce
your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will
have definitely given concrete form to the intangible
desire."
Napoleon
Hill
"Things
turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out."
John
Wooden
"When
you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word
"succeed," you find that it simply means to follow
through."
F.
W. Nichol
“You
become what you think about”
Earl
Nightingale
"People
with goals succeed because they know where they are going...
It's as simple as that."
Earl
Nightingale
"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
"The
meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we
call luck."
Anthony
Robbins
"A
life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and
spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not
reaction."
Rita
Mae Brown
Author
"The
bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess
courage and act accordingly."
Corra
May Harris
1869-1935, Author
"One
of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every
day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go
through the day."
Alan
Lakein
Time
Management Expert and Author
"Pain
is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a
year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take
its place. If I quite, however, it lasts forever."
Lance
Armstrong
Cancer
Survivor and Athlete
"To
be upset about what you don't have is to waste what you do
have."
Ken
Keyes, Jr.
1921-1995, Personal Growth Leader and Peace Advocate
"There
is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure Island
...and best of
all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
Walt
Disney
1901-1966,
Artist and Film Producer
"It’s
always fun to do the impossible."
Walt
Disney
"I
think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a
matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and
that's their disability."
Marla
Runyan
Legally Blind US 1500M Olympic Hopeful
"Man
often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying
to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I
may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary,
if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely
acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the
beginning."
Mahatma
Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Nationalist Leader
"The
secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly
defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several
times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already
achieved them."
Denis
Waitley
"Happy
people plan actions, they don't plan results."
Denis
Waitley
"Once
you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values,
goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them."
Stephen
Covey
"There
are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is
roots, the other wings."
Stephen
Covey
"Big
goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's
results.."
Mark
Victor Hansen
"Life
has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine
De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944,
Writer
"Defeat
is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true
failure."
George
E. Woodberry
1855-1930,
Writer and Critic
"You
can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden
dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for
yourself."
Diana
Ross
Singer
and Actress
"Whatever
course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that
you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt
you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires...courage."
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist
"Inside
of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's
staying down that's wrong."
Muhammad
Ali
Boxer
"Reflect
upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles
Dickens
1812-1870,
Novelist
"You
will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on
others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to
say anything gloomy."
Lydia
M. Child
1802-1880,
Abolitionist and Writer
"We
act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something
to be enthusiastic about."
Charles
Kingsley
1819-1875,
Author and Clergyman
"I
can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but
only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present
moment is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham
Maslow1908-1970, Psychologist
"I
don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer
the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'"
Isaac
Asimov
1920-1992,
Writer
"To
forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return,
you will receive untold peace and happiness."
Dr.
Robert Muller
Chancellor
Emeritus of the University for Peace of the United Nations
"I
am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The
choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence
the quality of my days."
Kathleen
Andrus
Author
"The
crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
H.G.
Wells
1866-1946,
Author
"Before
you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead...You can only see one thing
clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and
cling to it through thick and thin."
Kathleen
Norris
1880-1966,
Novelist
"The
discipline of writing something down is the first step toward
making it happen."
Lee
Iacocca
"The
last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given
set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Viktor
Frankl
1905-1997,
Neurologist, Psychiatrist and Author
"Happiness
is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then
the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this
minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense
the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles,
and perhaps more interesting because of them."
Robert
R. Updegraff
Author
of "Be Thankful For Your Troubles"
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