FAVOURITE QUOTES

KINDNESS

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“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.” —George D. Prentice

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” —George Adams

“True self worth, success and wealth can only come about from responsible love, caring and compassionate thoughts and actions.” —Ty Metsker

“I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now... as I shall not pass this way again.” —William Penn

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” —Henry James

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” —Dale Carnegie

“I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” —Thomas Jefferson

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” —Thomas Paine

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

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"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." -- Lucille Ball
"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." -- Rubel Shelly
"Living in the past is kind of like living in a coffin…it's totally constraining, and ends up being a lid on your growth…" -- Doug Firebaugh
"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

2008-10-21T07:49:00.000-07:00

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace
"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber." -- William Mather Lewis
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -- Charlotte Bronte
"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." -- Maya Angelou

OVERCOMING FEAR

2008-10-21T07:37:00.000-07:00

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis
"Not a single person has ever accomplished anything of significance without first feeling scared to death!" -- Rick Beneteau
"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down." -- Arianna Huffington
"To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be." -- Brian Tracy

LEADERSHIP by Jim Rohn

2008-10-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

"Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments."
"Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are".
"Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars -- they lie! What else would you expect them to do?"
"We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need."
"My mentor said, "Let's go do it," not "You go do it." How powerful when someone says, "Let's"!"
"Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sellout to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who."
"When dealing with people, I generally take the obvious approach. When someone says, "This always happens to me and that always happens to me. Why do these things always happen to me?" I simply say, "Beats me. I don't know. All I know is that those kinds of things seem to happen to people like you.""
"We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.
"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
"As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go."

CONCENTRATION/FOCUS

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"If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow." -- Denis Waitley

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something; whereas the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything." -- Thomas Carlyle

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention." -- Jim Rohn

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles." -- Claude M. Bristol

COMMUNICATION/PERSUASION

2008-06-26T07:45:00.000-07:00

"Communication starts with intention...as your intentions will be felt long before your message is heard..." -- Doug Firebaugh

"The substance of your communication is the response it generates." -- Tony Jeary

"Today's audiences are stimulation junkies with short attention spans." -- Patricia Fripp

"Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood." -- Brian Tracy

COMMITMENT

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"Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek." -- Mario Andretti

"Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential." -- Denis Waitley

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Dale Carnegie

"A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision." -- Nido Qubein

CAREER/WORK

2008-05-13T05:43:00.000-07:00

"We have worked at full speed since May. And that is I'm persuaded the root and source and origin of all health and happiness, provided of course that one rides work as a man rides a great horse, in a spirited and independent way; not a drudge, but a man with spurs to his heels. (Writing in her journal about her life as a publisher and writer.)" -- Virginia Woolf

"The amount you earn at any time is a reflection of the value that others place upon your contribution." -- Brian Tracy

"The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't. " -- Jim Rohn

"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know." -- Joseph Conrad

BUSINESS

2008-05-13T05:42:00.000-07:00

"To build your business, hire only the already motivated." -- Patricia Fripp

"Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful." -- Gen. Robert E. Wood

"Sell a customer what they Want, Deliver what they Need." -- Rick Beneteau

"Any company needs a strong, unifying sense of direction. But that need is particularly strong in an organization in which tasks are differentiated and responsibilities dispersed." -- Christopher A. Bartlett

BOOKS/LIBRARY/READING

2008-05-13T05:23:00.000-07:00

"Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something. " -- Jim Rohn

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. " -- Groucho Marx

"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success. " -- Brian Tracy

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. " -- Walt Disney

BASICS/FUNDAMENTALS

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"Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." -- Jim Rohn

"Morale and attitude are the fundamental ingredients to success." -- Bud Wilkinson

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier

"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

BEING THE BEST

2008-04-08T08:00:00.000-07:00

"The most splendid achievement of all is in the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval." -- Denis Waitley

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just getting the job done.' Excel!" -- Tom Hopkins

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Good is not good where better is expected." -- Thomas Fuller

BALANCE

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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." -- Og Mandino

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." -- Lou Holtz

"To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you’re capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

" -- Nido Qubein"Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final." -- Brian Tracy