TRUTH
"In the war between falsehood and truth, falsehood often wins the first battle, but truth wins the last." - Mujibur Ruhman
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." -- Dale Carnegie
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still." -- Charles Caleb Colton
"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and recognized or not, lives and works through endless change." -- Thomas Carlyle
"Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you." -- Jim Rohn
"We seem to seek the truth when it in fact seeks you." - Rick Beneteau
"There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." -- Dale Carnegie
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still." -- Charles Caleb Colton
"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The thing from which the work suffers more than from any other evil is not the assertion of falsehood, but the endless and irrepressible repetition of half-truths." – G.K. Chesterton
"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - they are the pillars of society." -Henrik Ibsen
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life." – Walter Lippmann
Fill your mind with gold and you can fill your pockets with gold. Benjamin Franklin
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Organizing yourself is like eating candy, it makes you think twice about doing it... but once you do... the outcome is SWEET!" -- Doug Firebaugh
"Become a strategic thinker. Set goals for what you want and create organized plans of action to achieve them." - Brian Tracy
"There are those who work all day, those who dream all day, and those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition." - Steven J. Ross
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be." – Thomas Jefferson
"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." -Adlai Stevenson
"I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts, I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy." – Lee Iacocca
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." – Leo Tolstoy
"Parents can only give advice or put children on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in his own hands." – Anne Frank
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." – Agnes de Mille
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." – Aristotle
"Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs." – Jim Rohn
"I want this team to win; I'm obsessed with winning, with discipline, with achieving. That's what this country's all about." – George Steinbrenner
"Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks and courage." – Charles Luckman
"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." – Robert Fulghum
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." -Christopher Morley
"The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans." – Mark Victor Hansen
"The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans." – Mark Victor Hansen
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something is to enjoy it." – Pearl Buck
"Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them." – Mark Victor Hansen
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." – Earl Warren
"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do." -Thomas Edison
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." – Heywood Broun
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up." – Mark Twain
"Some people can't see the solution. Others can't see the problem." – G.K. Chesterton
"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then start to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking." – Lou Holtz
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." – Jim Rohn
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning." – Winston Churchill
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances." – Bruce Barton
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire." – Epictetus
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." – Frank Lloyd Wright
"I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." – Omar Bradley
"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous, human attribute." – Dero Ames Saunders
"It is better to sell a large number of cars at a reasonably small margin than to sell fewer at a large margin of profit...It enables a large number of people to buy and enjoy (the car) and gives a large number to men employment at good wages. Those are two aims I have in life." – Henry Ford
"To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before." – Alvin Toffler
"It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -James Matthew Barrie
Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise." – Harvey Mackay
"The book you don't read won't help." – Jim Rohn
"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -George Horace Lormier
"The school is not the end but only the beginning of an education." -Calvin Coolidge
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects." -Will Rogers
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." -Henry Ford
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Johann von Goethe
"I get all the exercise I need from pushing my luck"
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity,
grow people." Chinese Proverb
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained." – Marie Curie
"Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" – Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
"Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated." – Alexander Osburn
"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit." – Harry S. Truman
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." – James Thurber
"We see things not as they are, but as we are." – H.M. Tomlinson
"Government's view of the company could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." – Ronald Reagan
"One man with courage makes a majority." – Andrew Jackson
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained." -Marie Curie
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." – Winston Churchill
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." – Jackie Robinson
"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example." -Thomas Morell
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts." – Edward R. Murrow
"America is unique because it offers you an economic ladder to climb. And here's what's exciting: It is the bottom of the ladder that is crowded, not the top." – Jim Rohn
"So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm." – Winston Churchill
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves." – Andrew Jackson
"Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change." – Robert Kennedy
"Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion." -Philip Wylie
"If things start going wrong, having a consistent approach prevents panic. There is nothing worse than entering an important situation and changing the way you do things because of pressure." -Shane Murphy
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." -Elizabeth Kenny
"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." – Elmer Davis
"In the war between falsehood and truth, falsehood often wins the first battle, but truth wins the last." – Mujibur Ruhman
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness himself." – Abraham Maslow
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." – Don Herold
"Character is what you are in the dark." – Dwight Moody
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." – Aldous Huxley
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." – Christopher Morley
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive." – B.C. Forbes
"Don't let minor setbacks cloud your vision of the future. Be like Captain James Cook, the famous English explorer. He faced monumental obstacles, but he kept sailing on. Said the captain, 'I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.'" Neil Eskelin
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible." -- Cherie Carter-Scott
"It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!" -- Mark Victor Hansen
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." -- Charles F. Kettering
"Your team will get stronger when you begin to build yourself. Teams are made up of individuals who work together -- and get their own job done. What are you doing to be sure that your job is being done perfectly." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Be a team player. Support others and cooperate with everyone." - Brian Tracy
"Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and there's a world of difference between those two." -- John C. Maxwell
"True progress in any field is a relay race and not a single event." -- Cavett Roberts
"We cannot change the direction of the wind... but we can adjust our sails."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." – Theodore Roosevelt
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice – that is, until we have stopped saying, "I got lost," and say, "I lost it." – Sydney Harris
"All that I know, I learned after I was 30." – George Clemenceau
"I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent. Without Julius Erving, David Thompson, Walter Davis and Elgin Baylor, there never would have been a Michael Jordan. I evolved from them." – Michael Jordan
"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - they are the pillars of society." -Henrik Ibsen
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life." – Walter Lippmann
"Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important then one's fear." – Author Ambrose Redmoon
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." – Susan Ertz
"Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world." – Helen Keller
"Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength." – Jim Rohn
"Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once." – Mark Victor Hansen
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anais Nin
"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never to be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The thing from which the work suffers more than from any other evil is not the assertion of falsehood, but the endless and irrepressible repetition of half-truths." – G.K. Chesterton
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time." – Chilon
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." – Ralpho Waldo Emerson
"The success of the actions of great men depends more upon the purity of their hearts than upon the means of their actions." – Vedas
"If you are not being criticized, you may not be doing much." - Donald Rumsfeld
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." -Elbert Hubbard
"On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Cherish your own vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." – Napoleon Hill
"Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving." – Richard Carlton
"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." – Henry Ford
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." – Ralpho Waldo Emerson
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've everything to do, and you've done it." – Margaret Thatcher
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness; find it where you may." – William Cobbett
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." – Henry Miller
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." — Joe Girard
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore." — Dale Carnegie
"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments." — Henry Ward Beecher
"Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." — Calvin Coolidge
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." — Henry David Thoreau
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything." — Joan Didion
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed." — Channing Pollock
"What is moral is what you feel good after." — Ernest Hemingway
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." — Lao-tzu
"Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like the weather." — John Champlin Gardner Jr.
"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better." — Richard Hooker
"Indecision is often worse than wrong action." — Gerald Ford
"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness or perhaps of subconsciousness — I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." — Aaron Copland
"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
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals." — Edmund Hillary
"Golden Rule principles are just as necessary for operating a business profitably as are trucks, typewriters or twine." — James Cash Penney
"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being." — Albert Einstein
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back". — Abigail Van Buren
"It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones." — John W. De Forest
"You don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, doing it the best you can. What can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can." — Joe Namath
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn to exercise his will — his personal responsibility." — Albert Schweitzer
"Henry Ford's great gift, the secret that was to make him successful, was his ability to make complex things simple." — Robert Lacey
Excellence can be attained if you...
* Care more than others think is wise.
* Risk more than others think is safe.
* Dream more than others think is practical.
* Expect more than others think is possible.
— Jim Gentil
"To win, you have to risk loss." — Jean-Claude Killy
"Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free — and worth a fortune." — Sam Walton
Promise Yourself
Promise yourself to be strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
— Millionaire Eagles
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." — Arthur Clarke
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down but in staying down." — Mary Pickford
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in public and private life have been the consequences of action without thought." — Bernard Baruch
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." — Sir Winston Churchill
"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." — Francis Bacon
"Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's." — Billy Wilder
"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but now we may make ourselves worthy of happiness." — Immanuel Kant
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker." - John Maxwell
"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim, nor even extra brightness, but perseverance all can have." — Woodrow Wilson
"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere." — Henry Kissinger
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein
"By chance, you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared." — Louis Pasteur
"We are waht we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." –Aristotle
"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart." -Robert G. Ingersoll
"To know yourself is the first and most important step to pursuing your dreams and goals." -Stedman Graham
"I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it."-Reggie Jackson
"I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person 10 years from now than I am today. I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open." -Clint Eastwood
"I maintained my edge by staying a student; you always have something to learn." — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"The past is over, forget it. The future holds out hope, reach for it." — Charles R. Swindoll
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that the right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." - James Allen
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." — Thomas Jefferson
"A major part of success of living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first." — Robert J. McKain
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going." — Earl Nightingale
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness had genius, power and magic in it." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour." — Dutch Proverb
"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." — Earl Nightengale
"Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free because he also tends to be risk-adverse. Rather, it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task." — Donald Rumsfeld
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and the action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog." — Dwight Eisenhower
"Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you're willing to do your best." — Colin Powell
"We act, behave and feel according to what we consider our self-image to be and we do not deviate from this pattern." — Dr. Maxwell Maltz
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." — Dale Carnegie
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. "
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
~ Dale Carnegie
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Dr. Joyce Brothers
Your character may the most effective means of persuasion. Aristotle
"What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing."
-- Pablo Picasso
