[Patrician]

There are intangible gifts that can supplement the tangible ones and may be given throughout the year..the gift of praise and the gift of physical presence.

-- Reverand Dale Turner

[RJ.Moff]

Forget the mistakes of the past a press onto the greater achievements of the furture.

[AllanJames]

Never Give Up - Winston Churchill

[Dianne P]

Believe!

A Belief is only a thought that you keep thinking ...

So start Thinking a Better Thought until you Believe it!


- The Teaching of Abraham
Esther & Jerry Hicks

[GT]

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the
ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

— Channing Pollock


GT

[Patrician]

"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."


- Michael Landon

[jemmachris]

Theodore Roosevelt
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

I love this one, with internet marketing it's so easy to get bogged down in the detail, so this reminds me that sometimes all you need to do is just take action.

[ScentsGirl]

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much" (Jim Rohn 1930-2009)

[Tanmi Gold]

The Greatness of Genie comes from being in a bottle..!

[Kanga]

MY INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE FOR THE DAY IS :" WHATEVER THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE HE CAN ACHIEVE".

[TrishMullen]

"How far you go in life depends upon your being...
tender with the young, compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving,
tolerant of the weak and the strong;
because...
some day in your life,
you will have been all of these."
~George Washington Carver

[JSantiago]

I like the following quote, cannot remember who its from but it really cuts through my bull****!

"To know and not to do, is not to know"

James

[Hanako]

YOU ATTRACT WHAT YOU WANT.

[Tanmi Gold]

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
-- George Allen

[Rick Wagoner]

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."
--Charles Dickens

[LOTNET7]

I like this quote and keeps me striving:

Don't wait until everything is right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect condition.
So what?
Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger,More and More skilled, More and More self-confident and More and More successful

-Mark Victor Hansen

[Patrician]

The Parable of the Spoons

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like. "The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, "You have seen Hell."

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, "I don't understand."

It is simple" said the Lord, "it requires but one skill. You see, they have learned to feed each other. While the greedy think only of themselves.

**"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, and touches your heart."**

[GT]

Happy New Year!

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the
attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you
as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

— John Homer Miller

GT

[DaveHughes]

"Life is hard; it's even harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne

[GT]

Originally Posted by DaveHughes

"Life is hard; it's even harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne

lol, That's a good one! Which leads right into this one:

"Ignorance is bliss."

(Actually: "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." – Thomas Gray)


GT

[sandra.IMqueen]

"Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you". Aldous Huxley.

"Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..."
Jim Henson

[mattb31]

I like this thread.

sorry if this has already made an appearence....

"What I hear, I forget, what I see I remember and what I do I understand"

confucius (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

[downloadvyp]

"Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer."

[downloadvyp]

"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success."
Hamilton Wright Mabie

[downloadvyp]

Hope is the dream of the waking man.

[downloadvyp]

"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."
Robert Cushing

[downloadvyp]

"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old."
Lord Chesterfield

[downloadvyp]

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
Doug Firebaugh

[downloadvyp]

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

[downloadvyp]

"To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own."

[downloadvyp]

"Hear the meaning within the word."
William Shakespeare

[PMB]

Here a few that I like.

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” -Mark Victor Hansen


“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” -Mark Twain

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” -Steve Jobs

[Tanmi Gold]

Enthusiasm is a Volcano on whose Top never grows the grass of hesitation. ~Kahil Gibran .

[luckystar]

Millions will fail in life because they are unwilling to make change.

( Mike Murdock )

[GT]

"When you determine what you want, you have made a most important decision in your life.
You have to know what you want in order to attain it."

—Douglas Lurtan


GT

[Patrician]

TWO WOLVES

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson

about a battle that goes on inside people. He said,

"My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.

"One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow,

regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,

inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

"The other is Good - It is joy, peace, love,

hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,

empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and

then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

[Patrician]

Thoughts are Things


Thoughts are the building blocks of our actions. Just like a well-prepared blueprint is critical to constructing a safe, efficient and beautiful building, so our thoughts become the plan for our actions in building a life.

As such, our thinking must be carefully trained and nurtured in order to produce the actions necessary to create the life that we desire. You would never think of trying to construct a skyscraper by randomly throwing building materials together, hoping that it would all work out.

Likewise, a life built on random thinking, pursuing whatever pops into our minds, or following the path of least resistance, produces broken disappointed lives. Paying attention to our thinking, our planning, our visualization, is critical to our success in life. Thus, just like a blueprint is a necessary thing, our thoughts are critical things. These principles have been taught and understood for thousands of years.

Jesus said it like this: “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him. Saying, this man began to build, and was not able to finish.” I don’t think Jesus is only talking about having enough money. He is saying that we must think it through, have a plan, a vision for how it should turn out.

Ancient Hindu scriptures compare the power of our thoughts to the might of the wind. Both are unseen, but both can have a powerful affect on the visible world. “The mind is restless, impetuous, self-willed, hard to train.

To master the mind seems as difficult as to master the mighty winds,” says a disciple. The master replies, “The mind is indeed restless, it is indeed hard to train. But, by constant practice and by freedom from passions the mind indeed can be trained.”

Just like a blueprint, our thoughts allow us to plan and prepare and visualize the end results. Just like the wind, though unseen, our thoughts can have great power in our lives.

If our thinking, planning, preparation, and visualization is positive, enthusiastic, and upbeat, it will produce better results. Negative thinking tends to produce unenthusiastic, pessimistic actions—or even NO action.

Positive thinking, on the other hand, results in optimistic planning and constructive visualization, which in turn contribute to positive action and successful results.

Success Tip: Pay attention to your thinking. Keep it positive, upbeat and enthusiastic. Plan and prepare, then take action.

(From MindPerk.com)

[Tanmi Gold]

If You Cant,You Must.
If You Must,You Can ! ~ Anthony Robbibs

[Alex Rich]

I'll share a few words from a chapter in my next book about relationships...

“If there was such an entity as the devil, its main tool to aid its quest for mankind’s destruction would be one that is effective at eliminating the desire and the ability to make or keep commitments, especially those we make to ourselves.”

Alex Rich

[Jazzy Nan]

"Just becasue you're serious doesn't mean you have to be solemn."
-- John Cleese

N.

[Jazzy Nan]

"Done is better than perfect."

"Sloppy success is better than neat failure."

"Be bold and might forces will come to your aide."

(from numerous sources)

N.

[Patrician]

Live Your Dreams

Life doesn't always go as you planned. I recently read the story of a man who deeply desired to be an artist but faced great opposition from his family and friends. As a child, he loved to draw but didn’t always have paper, so he would draw on everything he could find, like walls and his brothers’ school books.

Once, he drew a pig on the side of the farm house with tar. (He got in trouble for that one.) When his aunt bought him a drawing book and drawing table, he decided that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. But, his father adamantly opposed the idea. “I don’t want any boy of mine growing up to be an artist . . . Most artists end up starving to death,” he often said.

As a young man, he tried several jobs but could never let go of his dream to be an artist. Finally, he went to work for an advertising company drawing ads. Soon after, he was laid off. He decided to start his own advertising agency but things didn’t work out. He lost everything. He started another business doing film; it failed too.

He thought cartoon animation was the perfect combination of film and art, so he started another business doing animation. But, when this third business failed, he was literally homeless. He had no money, no place to stay, and few friends. He was afraid to tell his father, because he didn’t want him to say, “I told you so.”

But, this young man refused to give up, even when everything he touched seemed doomed for failure. His dream to be a successful artist could not be suppressed. So, he borrowed some money and got on a train headed for California where he started a fourth business with his brother. His brother was good at managing money and he was good at creative ideas. Together they became the perfect team. He developed a cartoon character called “Mortimer Mouse” which saw limited success.

Later, he decided to do a full length animated movie. A lot of people said it would never work – that people would not sit through an hour long cartoon. Fortunately, they were wrong. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became one of the most popular movies of all time.

This, of course, is the story of Walt Disney. Several years later, he thought of the idea for a Magic Kingdom, a place where both parents and children could experience the magic of imagination. Many said he was crazy, even his brother and business partner said it would cost a fortune, but he raised the money and went forward. Disneyland opened July 18th 1955, and the rest is history.


Success Tip: “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and stay with it until it’s done right!”

-- Walt Disney


(from MindPerk.com)

[Tanmi Gold]

Only two persons are happy in this world first is Mad and second is a Child.Be a Mad to achieve what you desire and be a Child to enjoy what u have ! :-)

[richman777]

"Compliment three people everyday." :-)

[miellas]

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." - Josh Billings

[DanielCW]

My quote for myself is simple:

"You have one life, make it count. There will not be another chance so make IT COUNT!"

[miellas]

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - Henry David Thoreau

[GT]

"The only people you should ever want to get 'even' with are those who have helped you."

—John Honeyfeld


GT

[salifhomebiz]

What a great thread!

This quote I am about to share with you really summarize the driving force behind most
of my actions as an entrepreneur. The only reason I started my own business back in
1996, was to be able to achieve Financial Freedom in order to do just what this great
figure describes and I quote:

"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
Dr Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner.

[richman777]

"Invest in yourself. If you don't, who will try to invest in you." -RM