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

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

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself – Chinese Proverb

James E. Burke- We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker

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

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

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

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

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"." George Bernard Shaw

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.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote – Benjamin Franklin

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

Leo Buscaglia- Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.

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?

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known – Carl Sagan

We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are. – Anais Nin

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

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

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional – Hindu Proverb

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

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

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

I am not often aware that I am happy. But I often remember that I have been happy – Robert Fulghum

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes – Benjamin Disraeli

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

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

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt – William Shakespeare

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

Kenneth Hildebrand: Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have - Norman Vincent Peale - Create great energy!

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

Peter Sinclair: Great lives are the culmination of great thoughts followed by great actions.

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

Even a small thorn causes festering– Irish Proverb –Don't dwell, instead solve.

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

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. – Carl Sagan

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

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that – Norman Vincent Peale

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

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it – John Ruskin

Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time" will soon help U realize that U do have time for nearly anything U choose to accomplish.– Bo Bennett

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

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

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

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

Picasso was pulled out of school at 10 because he was doing so poorly and a tutor hired by his father gave up on him– a lesson to learn?

Nothing endures but change. – Heraclitus

U don't fail at anything. Everything produces results. It's what U do with those results that determine the champs or the also-rans –Anon

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.~ J.Allen

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions-Life is an experiment-The more experiments you make the better - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

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

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

Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat – Scottish Proverb

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun- Habits control our life.Take control of your negative habits.

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

Interesting- when we are children we know exactly what we want- When we become adults we know what we "don't" want - not what we "do" want

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.-Edward Gibbon

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?

To begin to think with purpose, is to be among those strong ones who only recognize failure as a pathways to attainment – James Allen