"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." 

-- Norman Vincent Peale



"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." 

–- Agnes Repplier



"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." 

-- George Bernard Shaw



"An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation." 

–- Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Make it a rule...never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say, "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day."

-- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Clergyman and writer



"Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary."

-- Iyanla Vanzant Writer



"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within

himself."

-- Galileo, 1564-1642, Italian Astronomer, Mathematician



"The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation."

-- Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer



"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be

said, and that only."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author



"What we know is far less important than what we use."

-- Kevin Eikenberry, consultant and Powerquotes Plus editor



“It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.”

– Robert Yates



"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist



"It comes down to this: What kind of father are you? What  

kind of husband are you? What kind of coach or teammate are  

you? What kind of son are you? What kind of friend are you?  

Success comes in terms of relationships."  

--Joe Erhmann, Football coach  



"Our society does a horrible job of teaching boys how to be  

men and that virtually every problem we face can somehow be  

traced back to this failure."  

--Jeffrey Marx, explaining Joe Ehrmann’s philosophy  



"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation."

-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958, Writer



"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist & inventor



"You draw to you what you want through your emotions. The more intense the emotions, the more quickly it comes to you."

-- Eva Gregory, PhD



A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

-- English Proverb



"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

-- Satchell Paige 



Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths.

-- Japanese Proverb

 

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

-- Walter Bagehot 



"There are two very difficult things in the world. One is to make a name for oneself and the other is to keep it."

-- Walter Schumann



"Ultimately all you will have left at the end of the day are your name and your reputation. Invest in them wisely and you and others will simultaneously reap the rewards."

-- Leonard A. Schlesinger Management expert



“Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.”

– Douglas MacArthur



"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist." 

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin



"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." 

-– Mary Frances Berry



"There is no reason to ever quit...unless of course you had no plans to ever succeed...that is called 'Delusional Success'" 

-- Doug Firebaugh



"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, your have lost." 

-- George Shultz



"Leaders must be seen to be up front, up to date, up to their job and up early in the morning."

-- Marcus Sieff (1913-2001) Business executive



"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."

--Wayne Lukas Horse trainer



"Conversation creates a new kind of network within

organizations."

-- Theodore Zeldin, Historian, Oxford University



"Don't smother each other.  No one can grow in the shade."

-- Leo Buscaglia, American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author



"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."

-- Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist



“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”

– Isaac Asimov



"Character is measured by how you treat someone who can't do anything for you."

-- anonymous

 

"Touch someone's heart and you may change the world."

-- Karen Koenig Franks



"I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision."

-- Lewis Grizzard (1946-1994) Humorist



"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."

-- Author unknown



"Much effort, much prosperity."

-- Euripides (480BC-406BC) Greek playwright



"Our desires are what keeps life flowing through us. Celebrate your desires rather than long for your desires and they must come to you. The difference is in whether you are viewing them from a place of negative emotion or from a place of positive emotion."

-- Eva Gregory, PhD



"A man there was, tho` some did count him mad,

The more he cast away, the more he had."

-- John Bunyan, English writer and Puritan minister (1628-1688)



"If you never learn the language of gratitude you`ll never be on

speaking terms with happiness."

-- Unknown



"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person

to die." 

-- Malachy McCourt, Irish-American writer and actor (b. 1931)



"Parents . . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their

children. They don`t fulfill the promise of their early years."

-- Anthony Powell, British novelist (1905-2000)



"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

-- Plutarch, Greek biographer (c. 45-120 A.D.)



Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

-- Italian Proverb



"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."

-- H. L. Mencken



"Appreciation is the same vibration as love. Look for more things to appreciate every day and feel your connection to source."

-- Eva Gregory, PhD



"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt



"The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility."

--Giosué, Borsi



"Take what you want," said God, "and pay for it."

--Spanish proverb



"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

--Henry Miller



"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

--Rita Mae Brown



"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."

--Albert Einstein



"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."

--Confucius



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

--David Brink



“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

– John Steinbeck



"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian activist



Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather

by your friends.

-- Czech Proverb                   



"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."

-- Eustache Deschamps   



"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."

-- Bernard Baruch



"The more you get, the more you got to take care of."

-- Alice K. Dormann



"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves

the ends."

-- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st U.S. President



"Nothing's more important than that you feel good. When you feel good, you are flowing the energy that some call Life Force and many call God to you and through you. It is from this energy Source that abundance in all life abounds."

-- Eva Gregory, PhD



"A day without laughter is like a day without sunshine."

-- Eva Gregory, PhD



“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.”

– Harry David Thoreau



Sharpen your aim and go for it!








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