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December
28, 2004
From small beginnings come great things. – Proverb
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes
nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell
myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If
you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus. –
Carl Lewis, 1961-, American Track Athlete
December 21, 2004
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of
life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder,
1867-1957, American Author, ''Little House on the Prairie''
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle
them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck,
1902-1968, American Author
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a
man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living
things, man himself will not find peace. Albert Schweitzer,
1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician,
and Philosopher
December 14, 2004
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
-James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author
of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel
most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner
voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found
that attitude, follow it. -William James, 1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has
discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert
Estabrook
December
7, 2004
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and
forge yourself one. - James A. Froude, 1818-1894, English
Historian
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself.
In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. - Elizabeth
Bowen, 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you
intend to do. Liz Smith, 1923-, American Journalist, Gossip
Columnist
November 30, 2004
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and
adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if
only we seek them with our eyes open. --Jawaharlal Nehru,
1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high
expectation. -Jack Kinder
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who
have only interests. -John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, British
Philosopher, Economist
November 23, 2004
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but calmness within the
storm. -Anonymous
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment
you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight
that moment has to offer. Barbara De Angelis, American Expert on
Relationship & Love, Author
CHAMPIONS RISK what others DARE not; DREAM what others think
impossible; DO what others say can't be done. Jason James Hun,
Author
November 16, 2004
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked
why. -Bernard M. Baruch, 1870-1965, American Financier
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference
between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale,
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when
he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous structure of reality.- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955,
German-born American Physicist
November 9, 2004
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just
beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you."- Nathaniel Hawthorne -{1804-1864 American
Novelist}
"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling
life. -Les Brown {American Motivator Lecturer}
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but
the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's
generous utterances and the day's good deed.- Clare Booth Luce
November 2, 2004
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to
do is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow Wilson
(1856-1924), 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA
It is well to remember that the entire population of the
universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -
John Andrew Holmes
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am
only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -Rabbi Hillel,
30B.C - 9 A.D., Jewish Rabbi, Teacher
October 26, 2004
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook
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 {Goals Coach & Founder of
The Goals Guy}
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what
is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. -Calvin
Coolidge, 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
October 19, 2004
People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong.... Why
not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and
make them bloom. -Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk,
Teacher
At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at
30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover
that it wasn't thinking of us at all. - Unknown
Ask, and it will be given you; Seek, and you will find; Knock,
and it will be opened to you. - Bible
October 12, 2004
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of
giants. -Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never
were and say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to
forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
October 4, 2004
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , 1809-1894,
American Author, Wit, Poet
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first
step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to
take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad
you did. -- Don MacRae, President of the Lachlan Group
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that
sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove
lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down
on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American
Humorist, Writer
September 28, 2004
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the
way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it
will. - Clint Eastwood, Actor
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one
trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty-
Anne Herbert
September 21, 2004
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is
the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - James Allen
If you put a small value upon youself, rest assured that the
world will not raise your price. - Unknown
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of
the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you
had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour.
What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you
must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot
get it back.-Unknown
September 14, 2004
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it
is thinking that makes what we read ours." - John Locke,
1632-1704, British Philosopher
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were
always yours. And if they don't, they never were.~ Kahlil Gibran,
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made
myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear
disappeared. -Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth
President of the USA
September 8, 2004
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-Helen Keller {1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer}
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody
else. -Nikki Giovanni {American Poet}
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for
empowers you. -Wayne Dyer {American Psychotherapist & Author}
August 30, 2004
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and
strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop
off like dead leaves when their time comes. -John Ruskin,
1819-1900, English Philosopher
There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for
perfection, we can achieve excellence. -Vince Lombardi,
1913-1970, American Football Coach}
I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another
day of loving.
-Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
August 24, 2004
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,
1849-1916, American Poet
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the
only thing." --Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, German Born Medical
Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus
with power to attract to itself everything needed for its
fulfillment.- -Robert Collier, American Writer, Publisher
August 17, 2004
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness had
genius, power and magic in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music
which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David
Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of
quality; the other, a matter of time.- Marabel Morgan
August 10, 2004
Better to do SOMETHING imperfectly than to do NOTHING
flawlessly. -Robert Schuller ,1926-, American Minister (Crystal
Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden,
1910- ,American Basketball Coach
Two men looked from prison bars. One saw mud...the other, stars.
- Unknown
August 3, 2004
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He
that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, American
Industrialist, Philanthropist
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music,
or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here
lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin
Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882,
American Poet, Essayist
July 27, 2004
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be
understood.-Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet &
Essayist}
A life lived in fear is a life half lived' -Tara Morice as Fran,
from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you
can't look back on having given love and attention to your own
family, what have you really accomplished? -Lee Iacocca Retired
Automobile Executive
July 20, 2004
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if
no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke,
American Poet, Author
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you
get. -Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
There is only one small letter between the words CAN and
CAN'T...and that one letter will TOTALLY change your destiny.
-Doug Firebaugh, Author, Speaker
July 13, 2004
That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless,
unremembered acts; Of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth,
1770-1850, British Poet
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to
venture a little way past them into the impossible. -Arthur C.
Clark 1917-, British Science Fiction Writer
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon
it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American
Poet & Essayist}
July 7, 2004
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the
pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin
Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is
made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the
first half. -Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, 1821-1881, Russian
Novelist
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his
principles unto death.-Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, Anglo-American
Political Theorist, Writer
June 29, 2004
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our
unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of
life than on the nature of those events themselves." - Karl
Wilhelm Von Humboldt, 1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing. --George Bernard Shaw,
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
"There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover
and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or
imagined you could become." – Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924,
American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
June 22, 2004
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 open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922,
British-born American Inventor of Telephone
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do
him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers, American Advice Columnist
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without
action. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime
Minister
June 15, 2004
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the
wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Third
President of the USA
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to
zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and
soul." -Charles Buxton, 1823-1871, British Author
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb
June 12, 2004
You can have anything you want ?if you want it badly enough. You
can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to
accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of
purpose. - Abraham Lincoln
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will
perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. -
St. Teresa of Avila
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you
have the power to change anything about yourself or your life
that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis
June 5, 2004
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of
your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. -
Napoleon Hill
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and
strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop
off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a
living and the other how to live. - John Adams
May 29,
2004
None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. - Bertolt
Brecht, 1933
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the
flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things
through ?then follow through. - Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker
May 22, 2004
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up
children the more they have come to the conclusion that what
good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is best
after all. - Benjamin Spock
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer,
builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
- John Ruskin
May 15, 2004
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two
greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength
of mind. - William Hazlitt
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire,
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but
which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of
adversity. - Elisabeth Guizot
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's
not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've
had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher
May 9, 2004
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world
will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do
it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the
price, you can get it done. - Mike Ditka
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of
being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of
your life. - Abraham H. Maslow
April 29, 2004
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a
soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been
done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
April 24, 2004
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are
some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to
be right cannot be done. - Russell W. Davenport
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a
good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct
that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all
men, charity. - Arthur James Balfour
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of
talking. - The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz
April 17, 2004
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect
are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -Thomas
H. Huxley
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define
yourself. - Wayne Dyer
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're
willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a
beginner, the whole world opens up to you. - Barbara Sher
April 9, 2004
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking
creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you
enthrone in your heart ?this you will build your life by, and
this you will become. - James Lane Allen
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin
brother. - Kahlil Gibran
April 2, 2004
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement,
that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would
be foolish to despair of the human race. - Ernest L. Woodward
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams
that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then
we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true
views. - Abraham Lincoln
March 26, 2004
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the
infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized
about us. - James Harvey Robinson
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which
confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. - Mary
Kay Ash
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you
have, it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie
March 19, 2004
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as
they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Dr.
Denis Waitley
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all
your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.-
Glenn Clark
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
March 12, 2004
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may
not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe
in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune
into. -Wayne Dyer
March 5, 2004
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.
Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. - Jim Rohn
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does
anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He
that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie
February 27, 2004
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and
bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of
consciousness. - Les Brown
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures
for long-term values. - Joshua L. Liebman
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and
doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
February 20, 2004
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has
discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert
Estabrook
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. -
James Allen
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel
most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner
voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found
that attitude, follow it. - William James
February 13, 2004
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
- Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-Dalai Lama
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard
February 6, 2004
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you
love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. -
Wayne Dyer
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those
endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All
depends on the principals which direct them. - Napoleon
Bonaparte
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. - Beca
Allen
January 30, 2004
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
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep
it from themselves. - Sir James M. Barrie
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible
thing: no one is to blame. -Erica Jong
January 23, 2004
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. -
Bertrand Russell
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am
always well. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
January 16, 2004
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S.
Patton
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and
occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable
combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
January 9, 2004
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. -
Anne Frank
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith
is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert
Gaines
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
January 2, 2004
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles
but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is more important to know where you are going than to get
there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only
a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you
think it's two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
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