"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - I do believe this! Do you?

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are – Malcom Forbes

The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved-the pig was committed -unknown

The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches– Irish Proverb –Let's show each other some grace, we all have challenges and annoyances.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. It took me a long time to learn this.

I ‘ve read that Puccini’s first music teacher said he had no talent for music. Later he composed some of the world’s best-known operas- Hmmm

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated

John F. Kennedy- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

A hen is heavy when carried far – Irish Proverb – Don't carry worries and problems – move into solution quickly.

I have read that Wernher von Braun flunked ninth-grade algebra. You determine your future, not the past.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation – Thomas Henry Huxley

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it - Stevie Wonder – If the way you are using it is not working, use it differently!

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown – Chinese Proverb

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself – Benjamin Franklin

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought – Chinese Proverb

When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion. – African Proverb

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Schultz

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

S. Madwed- Our subconscious has no sense of humor, plays no jokes & can’t tell the difference between reality & an imagined thought/image.

What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Earvin Magic Johnson: You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it- Goethe – Give your talent and your value

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

Richard M. DeVos- The only thing that stands between man & what he wants is often the will to try it & faith to believe it’s possible.

You can give in to the failure messages & be bitter. Or you can choose to be happy. positive & excited about life- A. L. Williams

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much – Mother Teresa

Paul "Bear" Bryant- It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." Arabic Proverb

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

Paul J. Meyer- Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon-must inevitably come to pass!

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn– Irish Proverb –Let's start becoming more self-reliant and less entitled.

This vision you glorify in your mind, the ideal you hold in your heart, this you will build your life by, this you will become – James Allen

Nothing endures but change. – Heraclitus

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. Albert Einstein - Find your value and give it to the world.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. – Aesop

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E. E. Cummings

It is not who you think you are that is holding you back – it is who you think you are not. – Anonymous

There is no luck except where there is discipline– Irish Proverb – let’s discipline ourselves to be the person we are meant to be.

Change your thoughts and you change your world – Norman Vincent Peale

Destiny is no matter of chance-It is a matter of choice-it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved–William J. Bryan

Martin Luther King: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Unknown: People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

William James: He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest - Swedish proverb - It's time to ACT!

The work praises the man– Irish Proverb –Let our deeds speak for us.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz

U can't prevent the birds of worry & care from flying over UR head. But U can stop them from building a nest in UR head – Chinese Proverb

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." Maori Proverb

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

Fred Waring was once rejected for high school chorus. – And another lesson. Seems history is full of them.

Put silk on a goat, and it’s still a goat – Irish Proverb – Let’s not put masks on our challenges – Instead, let’s solve them!

Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. -Mark Twain

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities – Pogo

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Henry Ford barely made it through high school. – Hmmm, another lesson to learn?

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds – Aesop

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a man's foot long enough for him to put the other one higher – T.H.Huxley

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. – Earl Nightingale.

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - I do believe this! Do you?

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons – Denis Waitley

The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved-the pig was committed -unknown

I have read that Wernher von Braun flunked ninth-grade algebra. You determine your future, not the past.

The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches– Irish Proverb –Let's show each other some grace, we all have challenges and annoyances.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. It took me a long time to learn this.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

I ‘ve read that Puccini’s first music teacher said he had no talent for music. Later he composed some of the world’s best-known operas- Hmmm

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance – Aesop

Fall seven times, stand up eight – Japanese Proverb

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." – Chinese Proverb

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions- A. L. Williams

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation – Thomas Henry Huxley

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it - Stevie Wonder – If the way you are using it is not working, use it differently!

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown – Chinese Proverb

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself – Benjamin Franklin

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought – Chinese Proverb

I have read that, Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. You determine your future, not the past.

When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion. – African Proverb

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Schultz

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.- Marcus Aurelius

S. Madwed- Our subconscious has no sense of humor, plays no jokes & can’t tell the difference between reality & an imagined thought/image.

What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Earvin Magic Johnson: You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it- Goethe – Give your talent and your value