~Nido Qubein

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

~ Bernard Meltzer

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

~ Bernie S. Siegel

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go.  The past is over.  Forgive yourself and move on.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

RJS

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

~Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.

RJS

Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

~Og Mandino ~

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

~Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

~Winston Churchill~

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~John Maxwell

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

~Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

~Harvey Fierstein

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

~Henry David Thoreau~

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

~Talmud

We don't see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~Elizabeth Towne

Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

~Will Henry

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

~ Mildred White

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

~ Phillips Brooks

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

- Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

~Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

~RJS~

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold; but so does a hard-boiled egg.

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

- Louis L’Amour~

There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

~ Ernest Holmes~

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

~Nido Qubein~

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

~William Arthur Ward

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

~Estee Lauder~

When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

~David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

~Abraham Lincoln

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

~Stanley Horowitz

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.

~Foster C. McClellan

Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.

RJS

Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

- John A. Morrison

Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

~Florence Shinn

Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

~Vernon Howard

Drop the wrong thought and you lose the problem it creates.

~John Wooden

If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther.

~Paul Boese

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Ralph Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

~Neale Donald Walsch

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~Doug Kirchhofer

You can't get to happily ever after without turning the page.

~Jim Rohn

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

by Adam Dachis

Impossible Is Not a Fact. It's an Opinion.

- Helen Keller

Is there anything worse than being blind?  Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

RJS

The difference between try and triumph is a little 'umph'.

- William Arthur Ward

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

-Helen Keller

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you.  Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

~Babe Ruth~

You just can't beat the person who won't give up.

-Napoleon Hill

We cannot sow thistles and reap clover. Nature simply does not run things that way. She goes by cause and effect.

~Don Shula

The start is what stops most people.

~Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

~Wayne Dyer

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

~Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

RJS -

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

~George S. Patton

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

~Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

~Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

-- Henry Kissinger

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

~Will Rogers

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

~Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Srully D. Blotnick ~

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

~Al Batt

It is easy to sit up and take notice.  What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Raj:-

It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.

~James Oppenheim

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

~Louise Hay

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.

~Booker T. Washington

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

~ Ben Irwin

Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.

~Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

~Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

~Jonathan Winters

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

~Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.

~George S. Patton

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

~ Dorothea Brande

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

~Thomas Carlyle

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. 

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~Brian Tracy

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

~Leo Aikma

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

~Leon J. Sue

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.


~Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

~ Les Brown

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

~ Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

~Dale Evans

Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

~ Marilyn vos Savant

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

~Melody Beattie

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

~Esther & Jerry Hicks

No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be.

¬Robin Sharma

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

~ Bob Proctor

It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

RJS

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.

~Sir Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -  is the key to unlocking our potential.

~Mary Kay Ash

Everyone wants to be appreciated. So, if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

~Eclectic Magazine

There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.

~Firdtjof Nansen

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.

~Epictetusnes

First say to yourself what you would be; 
and then do what you have to do.


RJS

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

~Oprah Winfrey

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

~Joe Vitale

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of things to be grateful for.

RJS

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick