INSPIRATIONAL QUOTESWhile every effort has been made to acknowledge the author of the quotations used, please contact us at info@wecarewelistenwehelp.com if this has not occurred. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Althsuler It is not enough to know what should be done, one must also feel it. Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, Drazen Prelec Numbers rule the universe. Phythagoras Old age isn’t bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he notices are his pockets. Sufi saying. A fiercely guarded palace indicates a scared king or queen inside. Steve & Shaaron Biddulph I am me. I like myself. I like giving love, and I like receiving it. If you think you are good enough, apply within. Steve & Shaaron Biddulph Reasoning is never enough, as any parent of a two-year old knows. Steve & Shaaron Biddulph “I’ve been boiling this egg for hours and it’s still hard.” If what you are doing isn’t working do something different. Moshe Lang, family therapist. Are humans any easier to lead than dogs? No, because sometimes humans are in an emotional state. Also a human will say ‘Why?’, whereas a dog does without asking. Cesar Millan, aka The Dog Whisperer Until you manage your emotions, do not expect to manage money. Warren Buffet Emotions cost you money, Strategies build you money. Dr John DeMartini Emotions make you think you can do it quicker than you can, bigger than you can. Dr John DeMartini It’s like Gulliver’s Travels. The big giant is tied down by those little rules, regulations and procedures. And the little guy? He just runs around and does what he wants. It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. Dale Carnegie Self discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think you can’t control what you do. Simply self discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. Napoleon Hill We can't solve a problem at the same level of thinking we used to create the problem. Einstein Luck is a word used to describe the success of the people you do not like. Charles Jarvis Re-examine all you have been told...Dismiss what insults your Soul. Walt Whitman Some people seem to like to lose so they win by losing money, Ed Seykota Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise. Vernon Howard A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience. Harvey Mackay The most important conversation is the conversation you have with yourself. John Stephen Veitch I have so much to do today, I will need to meditate twice as long. Mahatma Gandhi Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain 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. Dr Wayne Dyer If you feel you are getting screwed, you probably are! Chin-Ning Chu Have the discipline to do little things you don’t like and you can spend your life doing the big things you do like. Andrew Matthews Here is the secret of inspiration. Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly not more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. William Feather When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. Ed Macauley, basketball coach Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end. Change before you have to. Jack Welch It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Mohammed Ali Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha If you hear a voice within you saying "You are not a painter" then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh Energy and persistence will conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think... we become. Buddha The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham H. Maslow While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. Dr Gerald Grumet When you really want to do something, in your heart of hearts, you will find a way, but if you don’t want to do something, you will find an excuse. Pat Farmer Australian Ultra Marathon runner Day by day in every way I am getting better and better. Emile Coué The most painful state of being is remembering the future; particularly the one you can never have. Kirkegard Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw The robbers of time are the past and the future. Florence Scovel Shinn Adulthood is defined by the willingness to except full responsibility for where you are at in life; no longer blaming others or circumstances. Joe Westbrook Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible. Anthony Robbins One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. Edward B Butler You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want. Vernon Howard Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men 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 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 The best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago … the next best time is today. Chinese Proverb The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Lee Iacocca It is what you read when you don’t have to, that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde The only people who think more about money than the rich are the poor. Oscar Wilde Prosperity involves you running your own mind – regardless of what your neighbours and the papers say. Andrew Matthews Anger is only one letter short of danger. If somebody betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault. Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt. Learn form the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates Things are not as they appear to be. Nor are they otherwise. The Lankavatara Sutra People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances that they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw Once the physical training is done, the difference between winning and not winning is in your head. Charles Garfield, Psychologist and champion Body Builder The more I practice, the luckier I get. Ben Hogan, Golf Champion In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, Zen Master We seldom change without discomfort. What The Bleep Do We Know The full expression of a feeling is its funeral pyre. Stanislav Grof We like getting things easily. Paradoxically, we tend to place more value on what we’ve worked for rather than what comes too easily. Dr Joy Browne Money occurs to poor people as something you have (or don’t have). Money occurs to middle-class people as something you do (like a job). Money occurs to wealthy people as something you ARE. Werner Erhard Most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out. James Thurber Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. Lao-tzu Eaters eat; runners run; guilty people feel guilt; angry people get angry; achievers find a way; victims find a reason. Anthony Robbins Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude! William James Fear is faith that it won't work out. Sister Mary Tricky Excellence isn't just doing things right, but rather doing the right things right. The worst words you ever write are better than the best words you never write. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you. William J. H. Boetcker The job of leadership today is not just to make money. It's to make meaning. John Seely Brown When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Robert Anthony Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Bruce Crampton Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times" and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." S. I. Hayakawa When ambition exceeds performance, the gap is called frustration...When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. Cullen Hightower Poverty is not the absence of goods, but rather the overabundance of desire. Plato Just remember – when you think all is lost, the future
remains. Robert Goddard The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich Cheer up! Remember today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. When someone is wronged, he must put aside all resentment and say - my mind shall not be disturbed, no angry words shall escape my lips. I will remain kind and friendly, with loving thoughts and no secret spite. Buddhist Prayer Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and
courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think
about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie The minute you start talking about what you're going to do
if you lose, you have lost. George Shultz Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. Bobby Knight Amateurs practice until they can get it right; professionals practice until they can't get it wrong. Security is not having things, it's handling things. We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that. Mignon McLaughlin You'll never have all the information you need to make a decision. If you did, it would be a foregone conclusion, not a decision. David Mahoney Maturity is the ability to accept responsibilities, to stick with a job until it's finished, to do a job without being supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. Either we're pulling together or we're pulling apart. There's really no in-between. Kobi Yamada Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankl If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do. Kathleen Winsor, Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Have you ever found yourself saying: "I’ll be nice to them if they are nice to me"? Imagine that you are in front of a cold fireplace, right next to it are some logs. You look at the stove and say: "You give me some heat and then I’ll give you a log". Until you put in some logs there is not going to be any heat! It has to start somewhere, let it begin with you. Earl Nightingale "Come to the edge," he said. A challenge for you: Treat every person you meet as if they are the most important person on the planet. Earl Nightingale Triumph is made up of two words: Try and Umph! Dissatisfaction is the distance between expectation and realisation. Intuition = Inner Tuition. If you want to know what a person is really like, give him or her some authority. Children are happier Christmas morning than they are Christmas afternoon. People are happier going to a restaurant than returning from the restaurant, going on a holiday than returning from one. We are happier when we are moving towards our goals than after we have accomplished them. Set goals and as you reach them, set new goals. Earl Nightingale Reach for the sky because if you should happen to miss, you'll still be among the stars. Success comes in a can..."I can!" Wally Amos The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert G. Hubbard, writer There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross To study the error itself does not lead to correction. A Course in Miracles You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can learn to do it well. Fear of doing it What we do in life at any given moment is not the cause of what we know but the cause of what we feel. All action is motivated by feelings – all inhibition is limited by feelings. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the word extra. Worry is the misuse of imagination. Worry is a thin stream of fear through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Arthur Somers Roche Begin worrying. Details to follow! Jewish Telegram Why worry, it will probably never happen. Florence Scovel Shinn We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis He who builds a fence always fences out more than he fences in. The biggest pain we experience is the pain of separation. A Course in Miracles Some people are funny. They spend money they don't have, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like. When the impulse arises to verbally or physically attack someone, work it out physically. Go for a run or a swim. Get into a room by yourself and yell, beat cushions. Get into a gym and cycle until your legs shriek. Later ask yourself why that person had the power to upset you so much. Later still, an only when you are calm, talk about it. Resentment is about not having what you want in the
past. Don't carry a grudge. While you are carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing. Buddy Hackett How can I get rid of fear? By walking up to the thing you are afraid of. Florence Scovel Shinn You have greatness within you. You have something special. If just one of you can get a glimpse of a larger vision of yourself, of who you really are, of what it is you bring to the planet, of your specialness, then the world will never be the same again. Mr Washington It is better to follow your own life's mission, however imperfectly, than to assume the life mission of another person, however successfully. Baghavad Gita The past is history, the future is mystery, that is why the present is called the present: it is a gift. Whatever our differences, we share this: we want to love and we want to be loved. What separates us is the way we go about it. Love is always present, it is we who forget it or remember it. You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. Leo Aikman Notice which of your attitudes bring you closer to people and which ones take you further away. Peter Rengel If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it. The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. Leo Buscaglia If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money on them. Abigail Van Buren Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking when you’re interrupting. What people really need is a good listening. Mary Lou Casey You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. M. Scott Peck When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. Jared Sparks Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences. There is a big gap between advice and help. The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. Mark Twain What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. Coach Bear Bryant One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. Mary Kay Until one is committed, there is hesitance, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself; then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe When you work only for yourself, or for your own personal gain, your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of an undeveloped personal life. But when you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break your bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you have every dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali If we go on explaining, we shall cease to understand one another. Talleyrand It is always the ego that questions, because it is only the ego that doubts. A Course in Miracles We are all teachers. Some teachers complain. Some teachers explain. Some teachers inspire. Sai Baba The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position and are inwardly tempted to take the other side. Thomas Mann Lord, Make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that I receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend - He is crazy about you! Ego wants to get and forget. Love wants to give and forgive. Sai Baba Forgiveness is letting go of hopes of a better past. Colin Tipping The longest journey that you will make in your life is from your head to your heart. Sioux Indian elder Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. Jean Toomer It is in the forgiveness of our weaknesses that we are healed of them, and the tenderness of a forgiven heart is a tenderness that will ultimately heal the world. Marianne Williamson Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky To handle yourself is to use your head. To handle others is to use your heart. In the buffet of life, most people waffle. I invite you not to waffle. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Dell Sellers. If you can't stand solitude, maybe you bore others, too. No amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance. Robert Holden, Writer Life is like listening to music. You enjoy the process not the end result. Our world is expanded by those who live at its boundaries. Friendship is a work of Heart. Ones who know do not say, those who say do not know. There is nothing, however difficult, that can't be communicated kindly if we care enough. Conversely, there is nothing, however beautiful, that we can not degrade if we do not care enough. Be football to time & change, the more kicks the better, so that you inspect the whole game & know its utmost law. Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagination helps us break free the limitations of our belief systems. We always have to work things out. Blessed is the person who has learned to admire but no envy, follow but not imitate, praise but not flatter and lead but not manipulate. I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, But I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Buddha A life lived in fear is a life half lived. If you understand, things are such as they are; Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider on our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so. Mahatma Gandhi There are no ugly people, only ugly thoughts that I hold. Monique Benjamin Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. You only live twice: one in your mind, one in your life. 007 If toys are for amusement and play, the most available permanent and sophisticated toy for humans is their body. When you don’t like a thing, change it. If you can not change it, change the way you think about it. Maya Angelou Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson The desire in your heart was not placed there if there was no chance of fulfilment. Barbra Rogoff If it is that important, it will still be important tomorrow. Life is what happens to you as you make other plans. Spinoza To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. Don Schrader In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. Michelangelo 50% of what we live is fantasy...The other 50% is projection. 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 which has been opened for us. Helen Keller An angel's heart sees everything as it really is and accepts it with love. Do not underestimate your ability to create. We all have special powers. All your wants are being co-created right now: you and the world are partners in this co-creation. You are you. You were you and will continue to be you. In you there is love, wisdom, your own growth & your own lessons. As you go through your lessons you contribute to co-creating lessons for others. They do what they choose to do with their lessons. The world is full of miracles: every moment, everywhere. We get accustomed to them & wonder where the miracles have gone. Sometimes it takes a shift to open our eyes. Tune in your awareness to the wonderment around, savour every moment. You will begin to see the stream of miracles around you. Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship and find out you still care for that person. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Never say goodbye if you still want to try - never give up if you still feel you can go on. Success comes to those who still hope although they've been disappointed, to those who still believe although they've been betrayed, to those who still dream although they've been hurt before. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do... May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy and enough money to buy gifts. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person, too. A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavours to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau Far way 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 Mary Alcott The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. Florence Shinn There are some things you don't have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on. Jim Rohn As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator – your current results. James A. Ray Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. Leonardo Da Vinci Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it too seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it. And now as I lay on my deathbed, I suddenly realise: If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country and, who knows, I may have even changed the world. Written on the tomb of an Anglican bishop in the crypts of Westminister Abbey. Passion is the tension that exists between something you love and something you hate. Robert Kiyosaki Never walk on the travelled path, because it only leads you where the others have been . Graham Bell Always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness. F. Nietzshe Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate. But, for those who love, time is eternity. William Shakespeare Many people lose the small joys, in hope for the big happiness. Pearl S. Buck Life can be understood only looking behind, but can be lived only looking ahead. Soren Kierkegaard Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit. Bertrand Russel If I could return to youth, I would commit all those errors again, but a bit earlier. Tallulah Bankhead Nothing can be taught to a man; but it’s possible to help him find the answer within himself. Galileo Galilei Love is the best music in the score of life. Without it, one would forever be out of tune in the immense choir of humanity. Roque Schneider Love me when I least deserve it, because it’s then when I need it most. Chinese Proverb When you see a man at the top of a mountain, he did not fall there. The successful man is the average man, focused. Anonymous There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. Marianne Williamson Most of my success has come from my ability to get myself to feel certain I could achieve something even though I had no references for it. Anthony Robbins Something really wonderful is going to happen for me today. You are personally capable of accomplishing so much more than you ever dreamed you could. Honour what you feel by saying it the way you would want to hear it. When you say it honestly, with love, your job is over Iyanla Vanzant Life isn't waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning to dance under the ongoing rain. You are not responsible for what people think about you, but you are responsible for what you give them to think about you. Write your sad times in sand; write your good times in stone. Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail. You may get delayed to reach your targets, but every step you take towards your target is equal to victory. It's better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of ego. Don't make promises when you are in joy. Don't reply when you are sad. Don't take decisions when you are angry. What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions! 94% of all failure is result of not having a system. W. Edwards Deming If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. W. Edwards Deming It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt When you are going through hell, do not stop. Pat Mesiti. You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there. Pat Mesiti Poor people have big TVs, rich people have big libraries. Jim Rohn Most current affairs are victim stories. Brendan Nicols Tiger Woods recovers from bad shots in seven steps. He takes seven steps and it is gone! Ask, and it shall be given you; You will never possess something you are unwilling to
pursue. Pat Mesiti. You are going to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump If it takes eight hours to cut down a tree, I’d spend seven hours sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln It is easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. Werner Erhart It is very hard to accelerate a parked car. Pat Mesiti Indecisive people are like a blind person with a blindfold in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there. Dr John Demartini In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer, Philosopher and Social Pioneer The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is what you do with them. Pat Mesiti. Nothing develops focus like a lack of alternatives. Henry Kissinger You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Eldridge Cleaver Somebody wants your power and you give it. That is how is how others get authority over you. Evan Slawson You do not get to choose the way things are. Because you already did. Werner Erhart. It is good to be trapped in a corner. That is when you act. Pat Mesiti Enemy of a great life is a good life. Brenda Nichols Thinking is the hardest work. That is why so few people do it. Henry Ford. As you move faster, time moves slower. Albert Einstein Developing your strengths is far more important than fixing your weaknesses. You do not need to be well rounded. Donald Clifton Adults do not need praise from adults. It is the childlike side of a person that need praise. We are defined by what we do when something goes wrong. Joel Bauer Successful people go beyond where lazy people stop. It is a psychological fact that fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain. Zig Ziglar. If you do not believe, no answer will suffice. If you believe no answer is required. Never explain, your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard No matter how fast we click from place to place, it will never replace face to face. Joel Bauer. Details make perfection. Leonardo Da Vinci We the willing, led by the unknowing are doing the impossible. The past is not dead. In fact it is not even past. William Faulkner It is not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through pain or through joy. A Course in Miracles Having someone to talk to is very powerful medicine. Dr John Tickell. We shall not cease from exploration To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Politician What creates romance is the ability to see yourself as lovable. Deepak Chopra It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), Pastor and author Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right. Henry Ford If you can’t make waves, make ripples. Excuses are lies we tell ourselves. Jim Warda Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deep
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who
am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually: Who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You
playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel
insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glorious God
that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in
everyone. If you want happiness … Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. Ashleigh Brilliant The six mistakes of man When angry at someone ask yourself: What am I not doing in my life that I could be doing, that I am blaming him/her for not doing it for me? Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him. James Allen Relationship is the mirror in which we discover ourselves. Krishnamurti The only time we grow is when we face a fear. Helen Keller The only reason we don’t see reality are the noises of the mind. Krishnamurti It does not take much strength to do things, but requires great strength to decide what to do. Elbert Hubbard Personality is nothing but the set of barriers we erect between ourselves and other people. Tibetan Buddhism We teach what we most need to learn. Happiness is largely a matter of where you place your attention. Tristine Rainer All paths lead nowhere. Therefore choose the path with heart. Don Juan quoted by Carlos Castaneda The selfish person is one lacking in self-love, who greedily pursues the satisfactions they block themselves from attaining. Erich Fromm We prefer to be right than to be happy. Opportunities for personal growth coming from the environment are called upsets. Men want certainty not truth. Bertrand Russell We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace within ourselves. Dalai Lama We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is an illusion. Swami Vivekananda To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese proverb. Knowledge is the best kind of wealth. Dalai Lama If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Rumi Meditation is not means to an end, it is both the means and the end. Krishnamurti How you do anything is how you do everything. Zen saying Life is a game … play it Be kind whenever possible… It is always possible. Dalai Lama The snow goose need not bathe itself to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao-tzu Live your own life. That is to say: where you are, with what you are and with who you are. Swami Prajnanpad Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order. Mahatma Gandhi I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese proverb. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie If I can not work for wages, I will work for the Lord – and his benefits package is unmatched. David L. Weatherford Don’t look back unless you intend to go that way. Marc Holm There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings, 1815-1885 The best proof of love is trust. Dr. Joyce Brothers View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints. Gerhard Gschwandtner Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. James Allen Parents are often blamed, but seldom trained. Dr Thomas Gordon, founder of Parent Effectiveness Training, PET The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, then money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearances, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We can not change our past… we can not change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is out attitude … I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes. Charles Swindoll A therapist is a person who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room. Children! Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now. Move out, get a job. Pay your own bills. Really enjoy yourselves, while you still know everything! There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind, the choice you make, makes you. Remember, tomorrow, today will be yesterday. Meditation is not what you think. Things are never as bad as they look. If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? Robert Townsend When you can name your dragon, it loses its power. People prefer to stay with problems they understand rather than look for solutions they’re uncomfortable with. Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. Herodotus, 484-420BC All men’s miseries arise from not being able to sit quietly in a room. Blaise Pascal. In my world, nothing evert goes wrong. Nissar Gaddata Maharaj The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney Fear, the best way out is through. Helen Keller You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse. Iyanla Vanzant Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. It is the only thing that has. Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success. You will always miss 100% of the shots you do not take. The race for quality has no finish line. Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. To stay the course ... sometimes you have to make waves. In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge. Nothing happens unless first a dream. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. The key to happiness is having dreams... The key to success is making them come true. The sky is the limit when your heart is in it. We can not adjust the wind ... but we can adjust the sails. The pleasure you get from your life is equal to the attitude you put into it. I can complain because rosebushes have thorns... or rejoice because thornbush has a rose. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Some people succeed because they are destined to. Most succeed because they are determined to. Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the water... it spreads. The Winner is always part of the answer; the Loser is always
part of the problem. Responsibility = Responding with ability. To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. Greatness is not just a gift, sometimes it is a choice. You can not discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on your goals. There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart… pursue those. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the kind of car I drove… but the whole world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. Develop your dreams and you create passion…develop the dreams of others and you create heaven. We take risks not to escape life but to prevent life from escaping us. In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a new beginning. Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed… Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. In the end the leaders are much like eagles… they don’t flock, you find them one at a time. Running is a road to self awareness and self reliance… you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. But when you are through, exhilarated and exhausted, at least for a moment everything seems right with the world. You can not hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own. Winners never quit. Quitters never win. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened. Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence. Vince Lombardi Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. John Wooden Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. Lou Holtz Keep your head and heart in the right direction and you never will have to worry about your feet. The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one’s desire. If you do not believe in yourself, chances are that nobody else will. Sometimes you have to do the thing you can not do. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Always give people more than they expect to get. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Elmer Letterman The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success of failure. Norman Vincent Peale If you are too excited by joy, later you will have to cry. Tibetan saying Have much and be confused. Tao te Ching There is no master, there is no instructor, there is no person to tell you what you must do. Krishnamurti Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. Tao te Ching There is no weapon more powerful in achieving the truth than acceptance of oneself. Swami Prajnanpad Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb Take up one thing and do it, and see the end of it, and before you have seen the end, do not give up. Those who only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything. Swami Vivekananda Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison Second marriages are proof that hope is stronger than experience. Unfortunately, sometimes people don’t hear you until you scream. Stephanie Powers When you are in love, you put up with things that when you’re out of love, you cite. Judith Martin It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. John Peer Quiet the outgoing mental restlessness and turn the mind within… Then you will see the underlying harmony in your life and in nature. Paramahansa Yogananda A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. If you know it and you are not doing it, then you do not know it. John Burley Slow down and the thing you are chasing will come and catch you. Zen Saying A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for. Grace Hopper The doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother. Wilma Rudolph, “the fastest woman on Earth”, three –time gold medallist, 1960 Olympics Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Japanese proverb There is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa One day, the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments are going to have to get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D Eisenhower Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway. Mary Kay Ash Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do everyday what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. Elbert Hubbard To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. Elbert Hubbard Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and miss it, but that we aim too low and reach it. Michelangelo Fear less, hope more. Eat Less, chew more. Whine less, breathe more. Talk less, say more. Hurt less, love more; and all good things will be yours. Swedish proverb Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love. Mahatma Gandhi Some people make it happen some people watch it happen. Some people wonder what happened. Rochelle Stevens, Olympic Gold Medallist At a certain height there are no clouds. If there are clouds in your life, it’s because your soul hasn’t soared high enough. Mark Fisher, author of The Instant Millionaire Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. Lord Chesterfield When I am working on a problem, I never think of beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem; but when I’m finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watched is never sure. John Peer Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. Plato Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. Audrey Giorgi Stress is the trash of modern life – we all generate it, but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake our life. Danzae Pace The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. Jim Goodwin Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter T. McIntyre Tears are the words the heart can’t express. All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Change your thoughts and change your world. Normal Vincent Peale It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life … that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and by then there was no one left to speak out for me. German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemüèller Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. We see things not as they are but as we are. H. M. Tomlinson Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it? Mahatma Gandhi I think, therefore I am. Descartes Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is an illusion. David Icke Things always take longer that we think they will. Joel Bauer |
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