Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
-Victor Kiam
Wait for everything...
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
-Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Recall and Return again?
"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
~ Ovid
Get going...
Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't.
Get going with something small.
-Irene Kassorla
Highest result
The highest result of education is tolerance.
-Helen Keller, author and lecturer (27 Jun 1880-1968)
Know your values...
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
~ Roy Disney
Recognize them...
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
~ Ann Landers
Think & Watch your answers
The simplest questions are the most profound.
- Where were you born?
- Where is your home?
- Where are you going?
- What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while and
watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach, writer (b. 23 Jun 1936)
Doing...do...do it
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
~ Lou Holtz
Who rose to leadership
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Only in kind
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (22 Jun 1906-2001)
Asking in a grandway
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way--the key is to ask in a grand manner.
-Ann Wigmore
Dad - Quote1
Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.
-Pam Brown
Habits of doing things
"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."
~ Albert Gray
Immortal
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us: What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-Albert Pike
Sensible decision
No sensible decision can be made without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
– Isaac Asimov
More than the wants
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
-Joseph Addison
-Joseph Addison
Opportunity.... every morning
"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning."
~ Dennis the Menace
~ Dennis the Menace
Regular Top Up's
"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's."
~ Peter Davies
Begin & succeed
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
-David Viscott
Power of Aims
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)
Executive Ability...?
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
~ John G. Pollard
Time Conscious
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious.'
~ A. B. Zu Tavern
Focus & Goal
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
-Denis Waitley
What & How
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
6Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
Lost...... is gone forever
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
~ Samuel Smiles
Obstacle Vs. Opportunity
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity?
Our attitude toward it.
Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
-Sidlow J. Baxter
When you take your eyes off
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Hannah More (1745-1833)
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