----- Original Message ----- From: "Spring" <[email protected]> ~*~ "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." ~*~ Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ~*~ There are high spots in all of our lives, and most of them come about through encouragement from someone else. ~*~ When you have a lot to do, that's great! It sure beats the alternative of being bored and aimless. Dive into it and enjoy the experience of making a real and positive difference, and of getting things done. ~*~ "Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional." ~*~ "If the enemy is in range, so are you." ~*~ "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~*~ "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." ~*~ "The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing." ~*~ "I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day." Og Mandino ~*~ "One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach" ~*~ "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~*~ "People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices." - Terry Anderson (after being released as a hostage from Iran in 1992) ~*~ "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." ~*~ "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." ~*~ "Don't spend so much time earning your salt that you forget your sugar!" ~*~ "Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote a lot of profound thought to details." ~*~ Each time I met with failure, I analyzed it and always noticed, looking back, that I had ignored an essential aspect of the problem because it had seemed unimportant. It was only later -- too late -- that I understood its importance. In business, like in love, like in sport, you cannot leave any detail out on the pretext that it's not important. ~*~ "I would never have succeeded in life if I hadn't given the same care and attention to the little things as I did to the big." Charles Dickens ~*~ "Some people make the future; most wait for the future to make them." ~*~ There is a choice you have to make, In everything you do. And you must always keep in mind, The choice you make, makes you. ~*~ "Impossible situations can become possible miracles." ~*~ "Waiting until all of your problems are behind you before moving is like sitting in a parking lot at one end of town and saying to yourself, I'll drive across town just as soon as every traffic light turns green. You'll never leave the parking lot." ~*~ Accelerate - what no-limits leaders do. A= Awareness. They're aware of the current situation and the goals they've set. C= Commitment. They're committed to developing their strengths. C= Celebrate. They celebrate goals and achievements on a daily basis. E= Education. They view this as a never-ending process. L= Laughter. They know how to laugh, and they do it often. E= Energize. Their energy rubs off on others. R= Responsibility. They encourage team accountability and are willing to stand behind their own decisions. A= Aim. They keep raising it. T= Time. They take time for themselves and their family. E= Evaluate. They regularly evaluate what's happened and why. In other words, they learn from themselves as well as others. ~*~ "Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it." --Adolph Hitler. ~*~ Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann" ~*~ "A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." --Kurt Lewin ~*~ I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. --Billy Graham ~*~ The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. --Abraham Lincoln ~*~ Stop fretting about the future - there'll probably be as much of it as you can stand when you get there. ~*~ Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you. ~*~ "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman ~*~ In the quest for tools and strategies that make a difference, these three are essential. First, spend your days going in the direction you want to go. Recent events have taught us that we are not promised an unlimited number of "tomorrows". Second, each day, take specific action in pursuit of your dreams. And third, use a system that keeps you focused, one that automatically sorts your priorities and makes your choices clear. It worked for Coach Lombardi; it will work for you and me. ~*~ "Make sure your dreams and your daily activities support each other." ~*~ "Small goals are more powerful than big ones." ~*~ "How we spend our days is how we spend our lives." -- Annie Dilliard ~*~ "A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a 'doer'!" -- Josh S. Hinds ~*~ "The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done." Mary Frances Berry ~*~ "Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." -- Liz Smith ~*~ The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973), Writer ~*~ Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~*~ Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. ~*~ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. ~*~ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle** ~*~ "Happiness, at best, is an illusory goal. It is not a destination; it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving, living." Haim Ginott ~*~ The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter F. Drucker ~*~ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -- Chinese proverb ~*~ "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." -- George Burns ~*~ "If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done." ~*~ "A good time to keep you mouth shut is when you're in deep water." ~*~ "Do unto others as if you were one of the others." ~*~ "Advice is like cooking - you should try it before you feed it to others." ~*~ "Adversity introduces a man to himself." ~*~ "Men are not against you, they are simply for themselves." (Gene Fowler) ~*~ "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ~*~ "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard ~*~ "Think positive. If you fall in the creek, check your pockets for fish." ~*~ "Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise." -- Harvey McKay** ~*~ "Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still." ~*~ If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record." ~*~ "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." Do what you can. ~*~ Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Arthur Helps ~*~ "The person who spends all of today bragging about what he is going to accomplish tomorrow probably did the very same thing yesterday." ~*~ We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, Yet forget that he is someone today. ~*~ "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor ~*~ "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." ~*~ DANCE as though no one is watching you. LOVE as though you've never been hurt before. SING as though no one can hear you. LIVE as though heaven is on earth. ~*~ "No revenge is more honorable than one not taken." ~*~ "The best way to know a man is to watch him when he is angry." ~*~ "I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm." Henry Truman ~*~ "Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles." Og Mandino ~*~ "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." Charles Schwab ~*~ "One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." ~*~ "You have to lie down in order for people to walk on you" ~*~ "Everything I know about life I can summarize in three words...it goes on!" ~*~ "Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." ~*~ "Every job is a self portrait of the person who does it." ~*~ "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." ~*~ "A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain." ~*~ "The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson." ~*~ "Whenever I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way." ~*~ "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." ~*~ "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." ~*~ "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." ~*~ "It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it." ~*~ "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." - William Shakespeare ~*~ "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." ~*~ "Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." ~*~ "Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart." Pat Riley Pro basketball coach ~*~ "Make big decisions in the calm." ~*~ "Life's tough, but you're tougher. You're stronger than your hardships, deeper than your sorrows and greater than your experiences of joy. You are anchored in the fertile soil of your soul by roots of faith and possibility." ~*~ "They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind." ~*~ "If you spend today worrying about tomorrow all your yesterdays will be miserable!" ~*~ "History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream; It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim , it was only a dream." ~*~ "Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~*~ "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." ~*~ "Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self- esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton (1918-1992) ~*~ "The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today." ~*~ "For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches." ~*~ "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison ~*~ "It is easier to stay out than get out." - Mark Twain ~*~ "For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it." -- Paul Harvey