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"If God brings you to it...He will bring you through it."
--anon.
"The best way to get something done is to begin."
--Anon.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
--Sally Berger
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground."
--unknown
"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."
--anon.
"Our goal in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead
of ourselves...to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday
by our today."
--Stewart B. Johnson
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
--Joe Louis
"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
--Buddhist Proverb
"Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot
to the town gossip."
--Will Rogers
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude."
--Maya Angelou
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or
her neck that says, 'Make Me Feel Important'. Not only will you
succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
--Mary Kay Ash
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to
a worthwhile achievement."
--Henry Ford
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal."
--Henry Ford
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
--Benjamin Franklin
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well
that no one could find fault."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because
he could only do a little."
--Edmund Burke
"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."
--Edward H. Harriman
"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the
end of your own arm."
--Fred Dehner
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
--Sam Ewing
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
--David Star Jordan
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
- Elbert Hubbard
When it's appropriate...be a team player:
"If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks."
--Yiddish proverb
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
--Ethiopian Proverb
"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes
a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
--Vince Lombardi
And you thought you were the only one...
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work
he's supposed to be doing at the moment."
- Robert Benchley
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries."
--A. A. Milne
(those of you who really know me, know just how true this is, eh!)
"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
--unknown
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one,
but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either."
--Leo Burnett
"You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it."
--Source Unknown
"Success is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."
--Anonymous
"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be."
--Source Unknown
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson
"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."
--Joe E. Lewis
"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."
--Ken Keyes Jr.
"If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull."
--Zig Ziglar
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
--Warren Buffet
"Always and never are two words you should
always remember never to use."
--Wendell Johnson
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
--Stephen Covey
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything,
but I can do something. And I will not let
what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
--Edward Everett Hale
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...
Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."
--Daniel H. Burnham
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
--Bonnie Prudden
"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room."
--Jayne Howard
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
--General George S. Patton
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--Mario Andretti
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
- William Osler
"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Every winner has scars."
--Herbert N. Casson
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today?
Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
--Babatunde Olatunji
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still
I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
--Helen Keller
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always do as much as you can, because there will come a time
when you just can't do enough."
--David Bartscher
"The only people with whom you should try to get even
are those who have helped you."
--John E. Southard
Finally...Hope this isn't like your office!
"This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have."
--Anon.
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something
to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to
work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance,
self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred other
virtues which the idle never know."
--Charles Kingsley
"Goals: There is no telling what you can do when you get inspired by
them. There is no telling what you can do when you believe in them.
There is no telling what will happen when you act upon them."
--Jim Rohn
--John M. Ravage, in his book, Time Out!, claims that
"A goal without a date is like a check without a signature.
It may have some value, but don't try to cash it."
"What I represent every time I set out to achieve something, is myself."
--Maya Angelou
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
--Abraham Lincoln
"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am."
--Anon.
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always
another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down,
but the staying down."
--Mary Pickford
"You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested."
--Rovert J. Sawyer
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
--John Wooden
"If you understand everything, you must be misinformed."
--Japanese Proverb
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice
because thorns have roses."
--Ziggy
"The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith."
--George Woodberry
"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and
ability to sacrifice what we want 'now' for what we want 'eventually'.
--Stephen Covey
"You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A ship in the harbour is safe...but that's not what ships are built for"
--John A. Shedd
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities.
An optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
--Harry S. Truman
"At age 20 we worry about what others think about us.
At age 40 we don't care what they think about us.
At age 60 we realize that they haven't been thinking about us."
--unknown
*Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others
have let go."
--William Feather
*No dream is out of reach as long as you set your priorities and
goals straight and stay focused."
--unknown
*How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank
"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle."
--Anon.
"Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are."
--Alford
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe
in with all our heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that
you had thought could never be yours."
--Dale Carnegie
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
--Anne Bradstreet
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but it didn't work for the rabbit!"
--Anon.
"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
--Bret Harte
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
--Les Brown
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn."
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must
love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own."
--Charlotte Bronte
"Success is not a destination that you ever reach.
Success is the quality of your journey."
--Jennifer James
DRAW ON EXPERIENCE -- yours and others' -- whenever you can:
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
--Auguste Rodin
"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.
You won't have time to make them all yourself."
--Alfred Sheinwold
"Do you know the difference between education and experience?
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you
get when you don't."
--Pete Seeger
LEADERSHIP
"Remember the difference between a boss and a leader;
a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"
--E.M. Kelly
"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
--Tom Peters
"Leaders are not born; they are made. And they are made just like
anything else - through hard work. And that is the price we'll have
to pay to achieve any goal."
--Vince Lombardi
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time,
add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
--Marian Wright Edelman
"When it's all over, it's not who you were. . .
it's whether you made a difference."
--Bob Dole
"Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world
a better place."
--Robert Alan
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
--Leo Buscaglia
"A smile is a curve that sets things straight."
--unknown
 Youko54 · Wed Dec 06, 2006 @ 11:38am · 0 Comments |
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