"Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high." -- Jim Rohn "For the next thirty days, think, talk, act, walk, smell and feel like business is booming and it will." -- Mark Victor Hansen "Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed" -- Booker T. Washington "Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant." -- Charles A. Cerami "The lens of fear magnifies the size of the uncertainty." -- Charles Swindall "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." -- Harry Truman Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn." -- John Wesley "The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have." -- Hazlitt "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." -- Robert Benchley "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso "Now is no time to think of what you do not have.Think of what you can do with what there is.--Ernest Hemingway Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy." -- Robert Half "The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall." -- Abraham Lincoln "Solitude -- A good place to visit but a poor place to stay. Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness." -- David Augsnurger Grateful "He who limps still walks." -- Stanislaw Lec "I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there and it will move." -- Matthew 17:20 "We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear." -- Charles Caleb Colton "If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." -- Peace Pilgrim "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -- B. C. Forbes "Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light." -- Jennie Jerome "Churchill As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger." -- Akhenaton "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." -- Napoleon Bonaparte "First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down." -- Ray Bradbury "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." -- Louis E.Boone "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." -- George Bernard Shaw "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." -- Dag Hammarskjold "Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it." -- Brian Tracy "Life...It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." -- Richard M. DeVos "Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high." -- Jim Rohn "For the next thirty days, think, talk, act, walk, smell and feel like business is booming and it will." -- Mark Victor Hansen |