Words of Wisdom...

"A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things."...Chinese Proverb

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."...Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman)

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishes."...Chinese Proverb

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."...Mohammed (c.570-c.632, Mecca spiritual leader)

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."...Robert Half (American businessman)

"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles and causes you to bump into people not going your way."...Edna Ferber (1887-1968, American author)

"A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love."...Marysarah Quinn

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."...Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th American President)

"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."...Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)

"Do your giving while you're living, then you'll be knowing where it's going."...Ann Landers (1918-, American advice columnist)

"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after."...Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")

"Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth."...George W. Crane

"If you treat an individual...as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."...Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

"Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game."...George Halas (1895-1983, American football coach)

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."...John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, 35th American President)

"Your past is not your potential.  In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."...Marilyn Ferguson (American writer)

"Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice."...Japanese Proverb

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."...John Wooden (1910-, American basketball coach)

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the impossible."...Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)

"We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds."...Warren Buffet (1930-, American investment entrepreneur)

"How far is far, how high is high?  We'll never know until we try."...Song from the California Special Olympics

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."...Lou Holtz (1937-,American Football Coach)

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."...Walter Bagehot (1926-1977, British economist, critic)

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."...George S. Patton (1885-1945, American Army General during WWII)

"If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend."...Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th American President)

"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."...William F. Halsey

"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last."...Horace, (BC 65-8, Italian poet)

"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your live broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."  ...Orison Swett Marden, (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment."...Anthony Robbins, 1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)

"A Friend is a treasure, more precious than Gold. For love shared is priceless, and never grows old."...Author Unknown


"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."...Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948, American jurist, politician)

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."...John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873, British philosopher, economist)

"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."...Brian Tracy, (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman)

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."...Greg Anderson, (American author, “The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness”)

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and be prepared to be surprised."...Denis Waitley, (American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert)

"A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best."...Author Unknown

"I don’t know any other way to lead but by example."...Don Shula, (1930-, American football coach)

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."...Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900, German philosopher)

"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

"I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is working."...Charles M. Schwab, (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)

"The only people who never fail are those who never try."...Ilka Chase, (1905-1978, American author, actor)

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose the freedom and the responsibility this entails."...Leo Buscaglia, (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience."...Harold Ruopp

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."...Kahlil Gibran, (Lebanese poet, novelist)

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."...Arnold Palmer, (1929-, American golfer)

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so."...Marcia Wieder, (American speaker, trainer, author)

"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."...Martin Luther King Jr., (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner)

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."...Andre Gide, (1869-1951, French author)

"Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It’s possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!"...Robert H. Schuller, (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)

"If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us."...William Feather, (1888-19, American writer, businessman)

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."...James G. Bilkey

"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal."...Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."...Tommy Lasorda, (1927-, American baseball manager)

"More than anything else, I believe it’s our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny."...Anthony Robbins, (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)

"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat."...Sam Snead, (1912-2002, American golfer)

"There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us."...Herbert Prochnow

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."...Herodotus, (BC 484-425, Greek historian)

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."...Anthony Robbins, (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)

"Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire."...Boone Pickens, (American businessman)

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead."...Chinese Proverb

"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation."...Orison Swett Marden, (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)

"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid."...Dorothea Brande (American success writer)

"If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough."...Mario Andretti, (1940-, Italian-born American car racer)

"We have contributed, each in the time allotted us, our endeavors to render…a permanent blessing to our country."...Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826, Third American President)

"Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you."...Les Brown, (1945, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator)

"Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer."...William A. Ward

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."...Plato, (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)

"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."...Joseph Addison, (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."...Dorothy Nevill

"Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well."...Author Unknown

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."...Anthony Robbins, (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)

"Service is nothing but love in work clothes."...Author Unknown

"Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace."...Mother Teresa, (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)

"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."...Denis Waitley, (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert)

"A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance."...Tom Flores, (1937-, American football coach)

"The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don’t make that contribution, nobody else can make it."...Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."...Trinidad Hunt

"If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one."...Author Unknown

"It’s nice to know that we don’t need to wait till tomorrow, we can start to change the world today!"...Wil Rose

"Chance favors only the prepared mind."...Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization)

"A little spark can kindle a great fire."...Syrian Proverb

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."...W. Clement Stone, (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)

"Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."...William Dempster Hoard

"Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn’t be done."...Author Unknown

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."...Aesop, (620-560 BC, Greek fabulist)

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."...Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

"You’ll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worst that can happen to you."...Arnold H. Glasow

"Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness."...Phyllis Bottome, (1884-1963, American writer)

"The best work never was and never will be done for money."...John Ruskin, (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)