by
phinebooty
@ Monday, 26. Jun, 2006 - 15:03:50
LIFE
1. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Hubbard, Elbert
2. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
HENRY JAMES
3. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
DIFFICULTIES
1. There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
2. The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
4. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden
5. The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.
ENTHUSIASM
1. Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley
2. Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks
3. Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball
HAPPINESS
1. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow
2. Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
3. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
4. 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
EXCUSES
1. He who excuses himself accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier
2. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
3. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
ACHIEVEMENT
1. If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
2. Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan
3. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder
PERSEVERANCE
1. 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
2. Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
3. How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn
TIME
1. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
2. Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca
3. Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Anonymous
4. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous
5. 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?
Author Unknown
6. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
7. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
DREAMS
1. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
2. The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden
3. If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein
4. Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall
FAILURE
1. Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin
2. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
3. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
ABILITY
1. If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
2. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter
3. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
ACTIONS
1. What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
3. Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert
MOTIVATION
1. 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
2. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
3. You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
later