"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
~ Harriet Braiker
Ability and Attitude
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
~ Lou Holtz
Make them...
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
~ George Bernard Shaw
Prejudices can kill
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn.
-Rod Serling, writer of the science fiction TV series "The Twilight Zone" (25 Dec 1924-1975)
...in my heart
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens
Open to learn
"The human brain is capable of many things. But you need to be open to learning so you can find them"
Highlighted from Peak
Highlighted from Peak
Honour in a being
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need for them than it has for warriors. And this I will tell you as well: One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
- Charles de Lint, writer (b. 22 Dec 1951)
Outgrow small ones
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communicate effectively...
"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."
~ Norman Allen
Set of the sails
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
- Jim Rohn
Your perceptions
"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."
~ Roger Birkman
Things done & undone
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
- Oswald Chambers
- Oswald Chambers
Give my best
"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."
~ Akeem Olajuwon
The dangerous words...
"The four most dangerous words in investing are: This time it's different."- Sir John Templeton
Truth and Facts
- Maya Angelou
Goals and Destinations
"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."
~ Fitzhugh Dodson
~ Fitzhugh Dodson
Try something
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. |
| – Franklin D. Roosevelt |
God gives, but..
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
- Franz Kafka
Similarly, God gives bananas, but he does not peel them.
- The Lazy
- Franz Kafka
Similarly, God gives bananas, but he does not peel them.
- The Lazy
...giving more
"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
put happiness into
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- Robert Baden=Powell
- Robert Baden=Powell
Humanity rise
"Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise."
~ Steve Maraboli
Being and Doing
"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."
~ Stephen King
What was given
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
~ Calvin Coolidge
Feel Gratitude
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
- William Arthur Ward
Otimist 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
What you do best...
"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."
~ John R. Amos
Act on them
"The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done."
~ Karen Kakascik
Buried treasures
Every human has treasures buried inside them in one way or another, and life expects you to find those treasures through what's called the "Big Magic"
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Big Magic
Flown water...
" Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
~ Ovid
Do what you love
| "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." |
| – David Frost |
The wisest...
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
-Nicolas Boileau-despreaux, poet and critic (1636-1711)
Feelings of others
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
-Emily Post, author and columnist (1872-1960)
Right for wrong...
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
NVC
Nonviolence is not a strategy that can be used today and discarded tomorrow; it is not something that makes you meek or a pushover; nonviolence is about inculcating positive attitudes to replace the negative attitudes that dominate us.
~ Arun Gandhi
Go Hand in Hand
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989)
Used to & Change
"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
~ Golnik Eric
~ Golnik Eric
Survived opinions
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde, writer (16 Oct 1854-1900)
Words are...
Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past.
-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
Just neglect...
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
-Rose Kennedy
Somehow...win
"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
Waste vs Master
"Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."
~ Alan Lakein
Confidence of...
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Law of Supply and Demand
In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap -- as measured by the pay -- that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.
-Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author (b. 26 Aug 1941)
Discouraged by Defeats
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
~ B. C. Forbes
Accept & Transform
"Accept—then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it... This will miraculously transform your whole life."
- Eckhart Tolle
What's inside
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outgrow the small
" Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inner child
"By connecting your Inner Child to your internal being, you bring out the hero in you that is inside all of us."
=John Bradshaw
Hour glass of life
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul
Most valuable & powerful
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
-Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947)
Not nurtured...
"When our Inner Child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit."
=Brennan Manning
Great Faculty: Nature
" Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always see the possibilities
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Set, make, commit bigger
"With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about."
-Brian Tracy
Inner Child
"Acknowledge your Inner Child. Even though we have found the light in ourselves today, we sometimes forget to heal old wounds of our past. Your Inner Child still needs to be loved in order to heal the complete self."
- Karen A. Baquiran
Just step out of
"Most of everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone."
-Jack Canfield
Surprise Quiz
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz:
Am I proud of me?
I gave my life to become the person I am right now.
Was it worth what I paid?
-Richard Bach, writer (b. 23 Jun 1936)
Past - Major Source
"I believe that this neglected, wounded, Inner Child of the past is the major source of human misery."
~John Bradshaw
Change your words
"If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure."
-Robert Kiyosaki
Reconnect
"Where is that inner child that used to love life so much? It's time to reconnect… Happiness and success depend on the child that you still carry within"
~ Roxana Jones
Knowledge is an island
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Time to dial
"Many of us are guilty of not taking enough time to dial into our Inner Child's voice."
- Kim Ha Campbell
Colors of a rainbow
"In my soul, I am still that child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow."
- Papiha Ghosh
To a brighter...
"We nurture our creativity when we release our Inner Child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey."
= Serina Hartwell
Story telling
"Tell me a fact and I'll learn.
Tell me a truth and I'll believe.
But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever."
- an ancient North American Indian proverb
Get ahead of others
"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
...a New
"Awaken your Inner Child with new imagination and new innocence, discover a new you – a new world."
- Liz
Through the inner eyes
"See the world through the eyes of your Inner Child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things."
= Henna Sohail
Young at heart
"Always bring out your Inner Child, be young at heart always, life is beautiful."
- Serina Hartwell
Inner Child...
"The Inner Child never wants to hurt anyone; your Inner Child always comes from a place of love."
- Kim Ha Campbell
Never gets in...
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H Glasow
Starting to improve
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist
(12 Jun 1929-1945)
Success & Persistent
"Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up."
-Brian Tracy
Real Soldiers...
Ethics, decency, and morality are the real soldiers.
-Kiran Bedi, police officer and social activist (b. 9 Jun 1949)
Tomorrows will look like
"If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday."
-Jim Rohn
Higher level of...
" If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."
~ Les Brown
Have possibilities...
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
-Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
Otherway round
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
-Honore De Balzac, novelist (20 May 1799-1850)
Only power...
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Can fly...
"We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly."
-Luciano De Crescenzo
Planning in other words
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
-Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
Wrong Q & As
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
-Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)
Instincts
"When you have a dream that you cannot let go, trust your instincts and pursue it.
But, remember; real dreams take work, they take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep"
But, remember; real dreams take work, they take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep"
Difference between Obstacle and an 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
Overcome inertia
So many fail because they don't get started – they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
-W. Clement Stone
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
Cooperation Vs Conflict
It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…
-Ralph Charell
Competitive Vs Cooperative
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Unknown
Product of reason
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
- Charles Baudelaire
3 powerful resources
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you:
Love,
Prayer, and
Forgiveness
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
3 important things
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 (1843-1916)
Point of view
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
-Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)
Know the strength
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
- Woodrow Wilson
Discover your work
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-Buddha (568-488 BC)
And the people...
"And the people stayed home.
And read books, and listened,
and rested, and exercised,
and made art, and played games,
and learned new ways of being,
and were still.
And listened more deeply.
Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.
Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people living in
ignorant, dangerous, mindless,
and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed,
and the people joined together again,
they grieved their losses,
and made new choices,
and dreamed new images,
and created new ways to
live and heal the earth fully,
as they had been healed."
- by Kitty O'Meara
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Product of ...
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." - Stephen R. Covey
Level of consciousness
" If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."
~ Les Brown
What counts...?
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
~ Booker T. Washington
Tree and its shade
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
Reason to achieve...
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
-Denis Waitley
Honest with...
Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-Walter Anderson
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
Love what you do
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
Peace of mind
"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."
- Brian Tracy
- Brian Tracy
Curiosity has its own...
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
Right people...
"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."
- Misty Copeland
- Misty Copeland
Single conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
-Chinese Proverb
Tries everyday
We cannot advance without new experiments in living,but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
-James Truslow Adams
Discover yourself
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
-Alan Alda
Implement and ...
"What separates those who implement and successfully execute to completion, from those who implement, then consistently second-guess themselves and change track?"
- Les McKeown
Closed eyes...
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein
யாதும் ஊரே
"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C
...to be something
You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. "I cannot," never accomplished anything; "I will try," has wrought wonders.
-J. Hawes
...of mind
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
-Gretel Ehrlich, novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 21 Jan 1946)
You're Right
" Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"
~ Henry Ford
...... Change and
Cause change and lead;
accept change and survive;
resist change and die.
- Ray Norda
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