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 harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.
– Mark Twain
All that CAN
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
– Henry Drummond
Introspection & Contemplation
Anybody desirous of success should spend some time in introspection and contemplation.
-Sam Veda
Afraid of its people
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (29 May 1917-1963)
Absolute control
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.
-Paul G. Thomas
Staying down
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
Good use of time
"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got." ~ Lee Iacocca
One more idea...
"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."
-Jim Rohn
A is a Great force...
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
~ Tom Blandi
Best Utilization of Efforts
"Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts."
~ Ted W. Engstrom
D S A - Date, Steps, Action
A dream written down with a DATE becomes a goal.
A goal broken down into STEPS becomes a plan.
A plan backed by ACTION makes your dreams come true.
-Greg Reid
A goal broken down into STEPS becomes a plan.
A plan backed by ACTION makes your dreams come true.
-Greg Reid
To excel
Perfection is not achieved completely by anyone in the world, But if you keep chasing perfection, Somewhere on the way you may catch excellence!!
Dream & Reality
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then
there are those who turn one into the other."
~ Douglas Everett
Get ahead of...
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
~ Stewart B. Johnson
Close enough...
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison
Time is...
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
~ Carl Sandburg
Action is the KEY
"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action."
~ Michael Hanson
Safe & Unsafe
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
-Robert Collier
Odds out
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Presence & Absence
Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence.
-Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (11 May 1930-2002)
Interesting Life
| Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes it meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine |
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Think Different
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
-Charles Simic, poet (b. 9 May 1938)
Have a daily goal
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
-Maxwell Maltz
All the answers...
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
-Jim Rohn
Optimist Vs Pessimist
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
~ Michel De Saint-Pierre
Daily Goal
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
-Maxwell Maltz
To live your dreams
Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
-Les Brown
Relieved by letting of....
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
-Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)
Make up your mind...
"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out."
~ Ronald Reagan
Look around...
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
-Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527)
Doctorine of the material efficacy
The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
-Herbert J. Muller, educator, historian, and author (1905-1980)
Wait around or work
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at making your dreams come true.
-Poh Yu Khing
Possibilities & Possibilitarian
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities.
-Norman Vincent Peale
What you DO with them....
"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
~ Ruth Ross
A Child and a Parent
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
-Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (2 May 1903-1998)
Growth and Activity
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
-Calvin Coolidge
Again and again...
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-Abraham H. Maslow
Without growing weary
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
~ Thomas A. Edison
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