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The World Can Be Won

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Do not let your fire go out, spark by an irreplaceable spark,

in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,

but have never been able to reach.

Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won.

It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Learn From Wrong

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It is your right to be wrong, but you have no right to wrong someone else.

What does that mean?

When you are wrong, when you make a mistake, you have the wonderful chance to learn and to improve yourself. It is both your right and your responsibility to improve yourself.

It is, however, neither your right nor your responsibility to improve the person sitting next to you. That's her right and her responsibility.

So be wrong as often as you must, and learn from it. But don't wrong others; that's their job.

A Good Stretch

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My strength is made perfect in weakness. — 2 Corinthians 12:9

Physical therapy is a painful necessity after knee-replacement surgery. Part of my routine involved my therapist pulling my knee back into a bent position and holding it taut. "Good stretch?" Mason would ask encouragingly. "No," I winced, "not that good!"

I soon learned, however, how important it is to stretch one's muscles and joints — sometimes causing discomfort — to gain full range of motion.

That wasn't the first time I've been "stretched" outside my comfort zone. God has sometimes urged me to share my faith with someone I didn't know very well, or to give an offering that was far beyond what I usually give or to confront someone about a situation.

Abraham's life illustrates the importance of faith when God asks us to move beyond our comfort zone. "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called . . . He went out, not knowing where he was going" (Heb. 11:8).

While we stretch our spiritual muscles, we may feel discomfort. But God assures us, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9). Our adequacy — our sufficiency — is found in Him (3:5).

When you boldly step out in faith and obedience to God, you may be surprised at how a "good stretch" can strengthen your spiritual life!
~ Cindy Hess Kasper

To stretch our faith, to take the risk,

God says we will succeed

If we but ask Him for the strength
And grace that we will need.
~ D. De Haan

Life Is A Theater

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Invite Your Audience Carefully

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a DISTANCE.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of, or at least minimize your time with, draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships.

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention.

Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know or appreciate you?

The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of Your Life.

"If you cannot change the people around you, CHANGE the people you are around."

Remember that the people we hang with will have an impact on both our lives and our income. And so we must be careful to choose the people we hang out with, as well as the information with which we feed our minds.

We should not share our dreams with negative people, Nor feed our dreams with negative thoughts.
It's your choice and your life..... It's up to you who and what you let in it......

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Ramadan Greetings

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Friendship

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Best Excellence Quotes

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.
-- Les Brown

There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
-- Buck Rodgers

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
-- Harriet Braiker

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotle

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
-- Vince Lombardi

Excellence is Drive from "Inside"

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A gentleman was once visiting a temple under construction. In the temple premises, he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he saw, just a few meters away, another identical idol was lying. Surprised he asked the sculptor, do you need two statutes of the same idol. No said the sculptor. We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.

The gentleman examined the sculptor. No apparent damage was visible. Where is the damage asked the gentleman? There is a scratch on the nose of the idol. Where are you going to keep the idol? The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar 20 feet high.

When the idol will be 20 feet away from the eyes of the beholder, who is going to know that there is scratch on the nose? The gentleman asked. The sculptor looked at the gentleman, smiled and said "The God knows it and I know it".

The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. Excellence is a drive from "inside" not "outside". Excel at a task today...not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction.

Quotes on Enthusiasm

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Emerson

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.

- Samuel Smiles

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

- Charles M. Schwab

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

- W. Clement Stone

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Thomas J. Watson, Sr

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Great Enthusiasm Quotes

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Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

- Bo Bennett

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

- Charles Schwab

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

- Earl Nightingale

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

- Norman Vincent Peale

To use the inner powers is to be a constant success.

While moving forward I sometimes have doubts about my own power to succeed. So sometimes my powers remain hidden and I am not able to have the confidence or the enthusiasm to work on the situation. Whatever the situation I am faced with, I must not forget my own inner powers. I need to recognise and use those powers which will help me overcome the situation. When there is faith within me, my mind will be open to the recognition and the use of these inner powers.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

- Henry Miller

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

- Tennessee Williams

Real Vision

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My friend Michelle is blind, but you'd never know it. She makes such good use of her other senses, including her "sixth sense" of intuition, that she rarely gives the impression she's missed anything.

Michelle parents her children pretty much like the rest of us, except that she doesn't sweat the small stuff. Her daughter, Sarah, six, and her son, Aaron, nine, really benefit from Michelle's relaxed attitude.

Once, Michelle told me that it sometimes bothered her that her children probably weren't dressed according to her taste. You see, she relies on her husband and her friends to choose clothes for them. But since friends and Daddy don't presume to know what the kids like, Sarah and Aaron often get to pick out their own clothes. But Michelle avoids any battles. As long as the clothes are clean and weather-appropriate, she doesn't make it an issue. And she trusts that, at six and nine, her children can tell if they are too hot or too cold.

Another area where Michelle rarely argues with her kids is in keeping the house clean. It isn't that Michelle doesn't know when there's a mess. She knows it's time to clean when she steps on crumbs or toys that have been left out. But in Michelle's house, the kids have learned to put their things away because it wouldn't just annoy their mother to have a mess, it could be dangerous for her. Indeed, Michelle moves around her house so fast that often guests don't realize she's blind.

I realized this the first time my six-year-old, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very excited about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was especially excited about her finger-painting project.

"Mom, guess what?" said Kayla, all smiles. "I learned how to mix colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! Isn't that neat? And Michelle painted with us. She said she liked the way the paint feelssquishing through her fingers."

Something about my child's excitement caught my attention, and I realized that I had never finger-painted with Kayla. I didn't like the mess. As a result, my child had learned about color from a blind friend. The irony made me sit down and take a look at my child and at myself.

Then Kayla said, "Michelle told me my picture showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really saw what I was doing!" Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt until Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper. That's when I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind. It had just never come up in conversation.

When I told her, she was quiet for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. "But Mommy, Michelle understood exactly what was in my picture!" Kayla insisted. And I knew my child was right because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork. Michelle had also heard Kayla's pride in her work, her wonder at her discovery of the way colors blend, and her delight in the texture of the medium.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, "You know, Mommy, Michelle really did 'see' my picture. She just used my eyes."

I've never heard anyone refer to Michelle as handicapped. She isn't. Hers is a special type of "vision" that all mothers could use.

- Courtesy: Marsha Arons (c) 1997 from Chicken Soup

A True Smile

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A smile shouldn't be taken lightly
Some smile all the time, politely
One thing for sure.
A true smile is joy so pure
With a smile, joy is released from the soul
A process initiated at birth to console.
Every smile makes a soul stronger than before
Beware, do not let joy be ignored
If the joy is not let out with a true smile.
It will build up, for awhile
But after a bit it will spoil slow
Diminishing until it becomes pure sorrow.
Though sorrow is needed for a soul maturing
Pure sorrow may outlast a soul most enduring
When this happens a soul will become stronger.

Once decided it wants sorrow no longer
While smiling keep this in thought
And give all, this life lesson to be taught

Persistence

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In 1947, Lester Wunderman was arbitrarily fired from his advertising job in New York. But he felt he still had a lot to learn from the head of the agency, Max Sackheim. So the next morning, Wunderman went back to his office and began working as he had before. He talked to co-workers and clients; he sat in on meetings - all without pay. Sackheim ignored him for a month.

Finally, he walked up to Wunderman: 'Okay, you win', he said, shaking his head. 'I never saw a man who wanted a job more than he wanted money.' Well, guess what? Wunderman went on to be one of the most successful advertising men of the century. He's credited with having invented preprinted newspaper inserts, plus subscription cards such as those used by Time-Life Books and the Columbia Record Club; ideas that have produced billions of dollars in profit. Now,advertising may not be your thing - but action must be. What are you willing to do to achieve your dream? Work without pay? Refuse to quit? Success begins at the beginning, and it continues with consistent action.

Now, ponder these thoughts:

1) You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
2) The first two letters in the word goal, are GO.
3) Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, others wake up and do them.
4) Anybody who brags about what they're going to do tomorrow probably did the same thing yesterday.
5) You will never be what you ought to be until you're doing what you ought to be doing.
6) If you're having trouble thinking outside the box, you're probably in the wrong box. Get out of there!

The Path of Most Persistence

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The Path of Most Persistence There will always be those who will tell you it can't be done, but throughout history, progress has always come from those who said it could be done.

The people who accomplish the most do so not because they never run into problems, but because they believe there is a solution for every one.

The great men and women of history are remembered not because they never failed, but because they didn't let their failures stop them. They kept on until they succeeded.

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2,000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, Often GENIUS is just another way of spelling perseverance.

A single stroke of an axe won't bring down an oak, but many will.

Success is like buried treasure:

Only the most believing and persevering find it. Success is sweet, but its secret is sweat.

For success, try aspiration, inspiration, & perspiration. Some men may succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because

they are determined to.

The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. Nothing in the world, including talent, genius and education, can take the place of persistence.

Here is the great secret of success:

Pray with all your might for the blessing in God,

but work at the same time with all diligence,

with all patience, with all perseverance.

Pray and work. Work and pray.

Motivating Quotes for Knowledge

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"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
– George Bernard Shaw
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
- Christopher Morley

"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge."
- Anonymous

"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn
"Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
- U.S. Air Force

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
- Peter F. Drucker

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin

"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."
- John Abbott

Learn something new.Try something different.Convince yourself that youhave no limits.
- Brian Tracy

Trust Did Not Come Easy

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Trust did not come easy
Was 'my' way I did go
No one could change me
Not any one that I know.

Trust did not come easy
Most my nights were sleepless
So I looked around me
And saw my life was a mess.

Trust did not come easy
All things I did were wrong
No one really loved me
I wanted to be so strong.

Trust did not come easy
The storms of life did come
Hitting and hurting me
I could not help but feel dumb.

When I saw light, trust came
I gave my strife away
All the storms God did tame,
For I accepted His way.

Top 10 Famous Ability & Achievement Quotes

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Keller

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

- Russell Baker

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

- Werner Heisenberg

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

- Mason Cooley

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

- Edmund Burke

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- William Van Horne

The best is the enemy of the good.

- Voltaire

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

- Niels Bohr

100 Ways to Make You Smile

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01. Call an old friend, just to say hi.
02. Hold a door open for a stranger.
03. Invite someone to lunch.
04. Compliment someone on his or her appearance.
05. Ask a coworker for their opinion on a project.
06. Bring cookies to work.
07. Let someone cut in during rush hour traffic.
08. Leave a waitress or waiter a big tip.
09. Tell a cashier to have a nice day.
10. Call your parents.
11. Let someone know you miss them.
12. Treat someone to a movie.
13. Let a person know you really appreciate them.
14. Visit a retirement center.
15. Take a child to the zoo.
16. Fill up your spouse's car with gas.
17. Surprise someone with a small gift.
18. Leave a thank-you note for the cleaning staff at work.
19. Write a letter to a distant relative.
20. Tell someone you thought about them the other day.
21. Put a dime in a stranger's parking meter before the time expires.
22. Bake a cake for a neighbor.
23. Send someone flowers to where they work.
24. Invite a friend to tea.
25. Recommend a good book to someone.
26. Donate clothing to a charity.
27. Offer an elderly person a ride to where they need to go.
28. Bag your own groceries at the checkout counter.
29. Give blood.
30. Offer free baby-sitting to a friend who's really busy or just needs a break.
31. Help your neighbor rake leaves or shovel snow.
32. Offer your seat to someone when there aren't any left.
33. Help someone with a heavy load.
34. Ask to see a store's manager and comment on the great service.
35. Give your place in line at the grocery store to someone who has only a few items.
36. Hug someone in your family for no reason.
37. Wave to a child in the car next to you.
38. Send a thank-you note to your doctor.
39. Repeat something nice you heard about someone else.
40. Leave a joke on someone's answering machine.
41. Be a mentor or coach to someone.
42. Forgive a loan.
43. Fill up the copier machine with paper after you're done using it.
44. Tell someone you believe in them.
45. Share your umbrella on a rainy day.
46. Welcome new neighbors with flowers or a plant.
47. Offer to watch a friend's home while they're away.
48. Ask someone if they need you to pick up anything while you're out shopping.
49. Ask a child to play a board game, and let them win.
50. Ask an elderly person to tell you about the good old days.
51. During bad weather, plan an indoor picnic with the family.
52. Buy someone a goldfish and bowl.
53. Compliment someone on their cooking and politely ask for a second helping.
54. Dance with someone who hasn't been asked.
55. Tell someone you mentioned them in your prayers.
56. Give children's clothes to another family when your kids outgrow them.
57. Deliver extra vegetables from your garden to the whole neighborhood.
58. Call your spouse just to say, I love you.
59. Call someone's attention to a rainbow or beautiful sunset.
60. Invite someone to go bowling.
61. Figure out someone's half-birthday by adding 182 days, and surprise them with a cake.
62. Ask someone about their children.
63. Tell someone which quality you like most about them.
64. Brush the snow off of the car next to yours.
65. Return your shopping cart to the front of the store.
66. Encourage someone's dream, no matter how big or small it is.
67. Pay for a stranger's cup of coffee without them knowing it.
68. Leave a love letter where your partner will find it.
69. Ask an older person for their advice.
70. Offer to take care of someone's pet while they're away.
71. Tell a child you're proud of them.
72. Visit a sick person, or send them a care package.
73. Join a Big Brother or Sister program.
74. Leave a piece of candy on a coworker's desk.
75. Bring your child to work with you for the afternoon.
76. Give someone a recording of their favorite music.
77. Email a friend some information about a topic they are especially interested in.
78. Give someone a homemade gift.
79. Write a poem for someone.
80. Bake some cookies for your local fire or police department.
81. Organize a neighborhood cleanup and have a barbecue afterwards.
82. Help a child build a birdhouse or similar project.
83. Check in on an old person, just to see if they're okay.
84. Ask for the recipe after you eat over at someone's house.
85. Personally welcome a new employee at work and offer to take them out for lunch.
86. While in a car, ask everyone to buckle up because they are important to you.
87. Let someone else eat the last slice of cake or pizza.
88. Stop and buy a drink from a kid's lemonade stand.
89. Forgive someone when they apologize.
90. Wave to someone looking for a parking space when you're about to leave a shopping center.
91. Send a copy of an old photograph to a childhood friend.
92. Leave a pint of your spouse's favorite flavor of ice cream in the freezer with a bow on it.
93. Do a household chore that is usually done by someone else in the family.
94. Be especially happy for someone when they tell you their good news.
95. Compliment a coworker on their role in a successful project.
96. Give your spouse a spontaneous back rub at the end of the day.
97. Serve someone in your family breakfast in bed.
98. Ask someone if they've lost weight.
99. Make a donation to a charity in someone's honor.
100. Take a child to a ballgame.

Smile Quotes to Make You Smile!!

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Smile is a language of Love.
Smile is a way to get success,
Smile is to win the hearts.
Smile improves ur personality.
So, keep smiling :)

Smile For The Ones You Love…
A Simple Smile Is All It Takes To Make One Happy…
Love Can Come In Many Different Ways, Shapes n Sizes …
But A Simple Smile Will Conquer Everything …
And Leave The Best Of Us Speechless …

Living in the favourable and unfavourable situation is called
“PART OF LIFE”,
But smiling in all those situations is called
“ART OF LIFE”.

Smile

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It is a simple act,
but sometimes takes a lot of effort.

A smile can cause boundaries to melt,
hearts to warm up, and distances to reduce.

Why don't we smile more often?
Is it too tough to smile?
The answer lies in our attitude towards life.

If we are more accepting of situations,
we will be able to smile more easily.

Always wear a smile.
Remember, without your smile,
your attire is incomplete.

Best Quotes On Aim

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To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

- Art Linkletter

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim and have fixed their gaze on a goal that is high--one that sometimes seems impossible.

- Orison Swett Marden

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that files feels the attraction of earth.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The one who teaches others never makes time his teacher. When the situation demands or forces us to change, we can usually bring about a change. But rarely do we find ourselves changing before time and being ready for the situations that are to come. So, we face a lot of difficulty during the time we are facing a problem. We need to have the simple aim to keep learning from everything that happens. With this aim we will be able to learn and be ready even before time forces us to change. Then we will be able to give the right direction to others, too, at the right time.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind.

- Seneca

Most people don't aim too high and miss. They aim too low and hit.

- Bob Moawad