Space between...
Do not be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
-Belva Davis
Dream come true
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.
Go forward and make your dreams come true.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maddest of all
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be...!
-Miguel de Cervantes, writer (29 Sep 1547-1616)
Potential for greatness
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
-Wilma Rudolph
Truth is...
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
-Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer
(27 Sep 1821-1881)
Hollow men
The Hollow Men:
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.
-T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep1888-1965)
Now, not later
"Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre. You will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great."
-Henry Curtis
Joy & Thrill
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Go ahead....
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.
-Edith Johnson
Give____Best
"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."
~ Akeem Olajuwon
Read Man - all editions
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
-Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)
Testing your memory...
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
-E. Joseph Cossman
Future of
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
-H.G. Wells, writer (21 Sep 1866-1946)
Future of Human Race...
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
-H.G. Wells, writer (21 Sep 1866-1946)
Defeat age...
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
-Sophia Loren, actor and singer (b. 20 Sep 1934)
Laughter in a language
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
-William Golding, novelist, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (19 Sep 1911-1993)
Feat impossible
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Last refuge
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)
Do it for 20...
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions.
Do it now.
Do it today.
Do it for twenty minutes and
watch your heart start beating.
-Barbara Sher
Executive Ability
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
~ John G. Pollard
Captive of environment...?
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
-Mark Caine
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
Wait for an opportunity
"People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning."
~ Dennis the Menace
Impossible to...
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
-Richard M. DeVos
Spurned Pity & Love
Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (13 Sep 1830-1916)
Magnify the strong...
"Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment."
-William Young Elliott
Moral standards
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.
-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (12 Sep 1880-1956)
The best use
Use those talents you have.
You will make it.
You will give joy to the world.
Take this tip from nature: the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
-Bernard Meltzer
Small steps vs Giant leap
"IT IS BETTER TO TAKE MANY SMALL STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION THAN TO MAKE A GREAT LEAP FORWARD ONLY TO STUMBLE BACKWARD."
~PROVERB
What you need
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
-Jessye Norman
Erase the past?
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
- Golda Meir
- Golda Meir
Able to change...
You may not be able to change the world,
but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
-Jessica Mitford, author, journalist, and civil rights activist (11 Sep 1917-1996)
Tip from nature
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world.
Take this tip from nature: the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
-Bernard Meltzer
Holds so much Power...
"Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen."
~ Pete Carroll
An hour's reading...
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Aim for Achievement
Achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
– Helen Hayes
Never Give Up
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
– David Rockefeller
Not rooted in his own powers
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
-Rollow May
Awareness...
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
- Henry Miller
Only Zen
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (6 Sep 1928-2017)
Gap of capability
"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."
~ Geoffrey Gaberino
Two kinds of slaves...
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
-Ivan Illich, philosopher and priest (4 Sep 1926-2002)
Become Wish to become
We must be the epitome...the embodiment...of success.
We must radiate success before it will come to us.
We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
-Earl Nightingale
Important ones...
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
~ Arthur Ashe
Opportunity & Change
Turbulence is life force.
It is opportunity.
Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
– Norman Vincent Peale
It is opportunity.
Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Goal & Dedication
Person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily & aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
-Cecil B De Mille
Closer to your dreams...
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
-Og Mandino
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