Friday, August 31, 2007

Crossing the sea

"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water." - Rabindranath Tagore

Effort

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."- Arnold Palmer

Success

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.- Proverb

Do what you can...

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, August 27, 2007

Danger

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."- Michelangelo

Success

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande

Requisite of success

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." - Thomas Edison

Enthusiasm

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." - Norman Vincent Peale

Adventure

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - GK Chesterton

Living Magnet

"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." - Brian Tracy

Years of your life...

"And in the end it's not the years in your lifethat count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

Success

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to beattracted by the person we become."- Jim Rohn

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Try something else

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn

Life

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

About numbers...

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." - Mother Teresa

Competence

Competence is 50% what you can do and 50% what other people think you can do. - Author unknown

Let no feeling of discouragement...

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed." - Abraham Lincoln

Personal Responsibility

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself" - Jim Rohn

Energy...

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." - Oprah Winfrey

Choosing a goal

"This one step - choosing a goal and staying to it - changes everything."- Scott Reed

Enthusiasm

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action." - Henry Chester