August 22, 2008 · Filed under achievement, attitude, confidence, Gandhi, persistence, road, victory
First they ignore you…
Then they laugh at you…
Then they fight you…
Then you win…
(Gandhi)
August 20, 2008 · Filed under belief, control, future, goal, power, world
“How we believe the world is and what we honestly think it can become have powerful effects on how things turn out.” (James Rhem)
June 17, 2008 · Filed under book, knowledge, money
“When I get a little money I buy books, and if any money is left I buy food and clothes.” (Erasmus)
June 17, 2008 · Filed under book, future, relationships
“You can predict a person’s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.” (Earl Nightingale)
April 28, 2008 · Filed under achievement, action, adventure, chance, Dale Carnegie, life
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” (Dale Carnegie)
April 28, 2008 · Filed under action, confidence, courage, doubt, fear, feelings, inaction, thoughts
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” (Dale Carnegie)
April 28, 2008 · Filed under Dale Carnegie, learning, lesson, life, worry
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.” (Dale Carnegie)
April 28, 2008 · Filed under attitude, Dale Carnegie, external conditions, happiness
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” (Dale Carnegie)
April 28, 2008 · Filed under criticism, Dale Carnegie
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.”
(Dale Carnegie)
April 28, 2008 · Filed under action, Dale Carnegie, deeds, enthusiasm
“Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.” (Dale Carnegie)
March 27, 2008 · Filed under action, work
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” (Walt Disney)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under faith, sight
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under confidence, conversation, wit
“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.” (La Rochefoucauld)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under Benjamin Franklin, ideas, opinion, people
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.” (David H. Comins)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under ability, character, lead
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” (Thomas J. Watson)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under action, Benjamin Franklin, deeds, speech, words
“Well done is better than well said.” (Benjamin Franklin)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under C. S. Lewis, future, life, people
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” (C. S. Lewis)
February 8, 2008 · Filed under aging, C. S. Lewis, dream, goal
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
(C. S. Lewis)
February 8, 2008 · Filed under kiss, rain
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” (Langston Hughes)
February 8, 2008 · Filed under life, people, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
February 1, 2008 · Filed under C. S. Lewis, faith, God, obedience, people, trust
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” (C. S. Lewis)
February 1, 2008 · Filed under decision, goal
“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.”
(Hal Boyle)
February 1, 2008 · Filed under life, mind, people, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
February 1, 2008 · Filed under adventure, forgiveness, life
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” (Norman Cousins)
January 28, 2008 · Filed under lesson, loss
“If you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” (Dahli Lama)
January 28, 2008 · Filed under proverb
“Bad is never good until worse happens.” (Danish proverb)
January 28, 2008 · Filed under deed, immortality, rain
“Many long for immortality who don’t know what to do on a rainy afternoon.”
January 21, 2008 · Filed under fire, Henry David Thoreau, sunshine, winter
“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?”
(Henry David Thoreau)
January 21, 2008 · Filed under laughter, rose, soul
“The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.”
(Linda Knight)
January 15, 2008 · Filed under courage, road, travel
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” (Robert Frost)