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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
- Anonymous
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-
it-iveness, and third, common sense.
- -- Thomas Edison
Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common
sense.
- -- F.E. Willard

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.
- - Henry Ward Beeche
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse
to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
- Russell W. Davenport

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we
do with it.
- -- Mary Blake

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather,
that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make
a new man of himself.
- -- Wang Yang-Ming
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities, which lie,
undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
- James Harvey Robinson

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you
had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
- F. Hawes

Trials, temptations, and disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if
one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but also strengthen it.
Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured
and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- James Buckham
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and
see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and
that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of
energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-
control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues
which the idle never know.
- Charles Kingsley
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world
being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that
goodness.
- Phillips Brooks
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed -- well, you know the drill. But keep in mind that although
this saying is trite, it's absolutely true. Perseverance is the only surefire way to get what
you deserve in life. Ending a journey when you're only halfway through is merely a waste
of time. You might have to wait longer than you want for results, but there is no way to
rush destiny. You have to keep moving toward it, even if it turns out to be farther away
than you thought. -Anonymous
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the
shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
- Nolan Bushnell

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and
that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of
energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the
most of one's resources.
- Vauvenargues

Destiny is not a 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 Jennings Bryan
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we
have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Although the odds seem stacked against you, have faith in your lucky stars. If you persevere, you will
succeed. Think of these obstacles as inspiration to move you toward your goal. Aim high and dream big.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you
had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
- F. Hawes
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day
to day, and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
- J. Harold Wilkins
Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common
sense.
- F.E. Willard
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
- Mother Teresa
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good
deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
- F.W. Faber

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do
now and do it.
- William Durant, founder of General Motors
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victory comes with Patience, Pain with Affliction and Ease with Hardship. Prophet
Muhammad

"All luck is not often good, but any good luck is worth having or receiving."
Parris C. Battle

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure.
- Colin Powell

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we
have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from
their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral
fiber.
- --William Mather Lewis
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities, which lie,
undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
- James Harvey Robinson

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and
soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It
takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
- W. L. Shirer

To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you
to make right use of your opportunities.
- Grenville Kleiser

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile,
believe always, and never turn back.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anger is a prelude to courage.
- -- Eric Hoffer

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is
a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a
devil.
- -- James A. Garfield
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a
tender heart.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of
companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone
else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is
the keynote of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the
handicaps, which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they
should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with
flowers.
- Helen Keller
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a
real gentleman or lady.
- Thomas H. Huxley

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of
another.
- -- Helen Keller
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good
man takes in doing good.
- Tillotson

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom;
justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith
and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
- -- E. Merrill Root

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation,
abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who
are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
- Victor Hugo

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because
they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Actor Kevin Costner
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a
predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense
importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- -- W.J. Davison

Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense.

- -- F.E. Willard

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he

happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been
otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are fallible. We certainly haven't attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the
virtue is in the striving.
- Carlos P. Romulo
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who
never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
- -- Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787.

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
- -- George P. Burnham

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's
been given.
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian dramatist and writer

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look
fear in the face.
- -- Eleanor Roosevelt
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave
man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
- -- James A. Garfield

Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more
you bring honor to yourself.
- -- From the Decathlete

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong
them. I shall use my time.
- -- Jack London

Economy... the art of making the most of life; the love of economy is the root of all virtue.
- -- George Bernard Shaw

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is
the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the
handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they
should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with
flowers.
- Helen Keller
Life's about friendships, the way you love your partner, the way you care for your children. That is
what life is about. Not anything about earning a hundred zillion dollars because you toured
America more than anyone else. I want life to be about creativity.
- -- Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash rock band.

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to
be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've
stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Kevin Costner

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing
to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's
the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
- Ann Landers

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance
has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and
freedom in all-just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining
golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become
whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the
promise of America.
- Thomas Wolfe
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and
set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Napoleon Hill

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling
under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet
weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or
temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made
except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally
alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and
when you have found that attitude, follow it.
- William James

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to
the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
- Harry S. Truman

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and
soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It
takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
- W. L. Shirer

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at
least lose, every day, something of our faults.
- Agapet

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize
it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a
promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle,
accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it!
- Mother Teresa

~Faith~
You can do, be and have, anything you want. As long as you get started. Take baby steps:
one tiny step after another, even when you have no real idea of how you're going
to get to your destination, beyond the next step. Taking baby steps involves faith, but faith
isn't something you have. It's something you do. Faith is about realizing that we don't
have to be defined by the circumstances we find ourselves in. It's seeing that our lives are
a lot bigger, filled with far more potential than we usually imagine. we can step into the
unknown and make a new beginning. So go ahead. DO faith, and take baby steps.

The only limit is your imagination, so dream big. No,

bigger. Bigger than that, even! Even if the reality
turns out to be slightly different than what you
pictured, it wouldn't have been possible if you didn't
first let your daydreams have free rein. So just
remember that no one's watching, and put aside any
and all self-criticism and let your mind roam far
afield. The one word that's absolutely not allowed
during this exercise is impossible.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects
everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I
found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks
for moderate goods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

PS
Here's a little insight I thought I could share will you.

Effort and patience

Effort gets things done. Patience sees them through. Both are crucial to success. Without
patience, the passing setbacks and disappointments would soon overwhelm even the
hardiest effort. Without effort, patience would accomplish very little.

When you can balance effort and patience, it is a powerful combination. You can make
almost anything happen with enough effort, but not right away. The most effective effort
is continuing effort, which patience makes possible.

Though they may at first seem to contradict each other, effort and patience actually work
great together. The most spectacularly successful people in any field are those who have
the patience to continually apply their effort for as long as it takes to succeed.

Know when to push and when to wait. Balance aggressive effort with a deep, underlying
patience and the results you achieve will be truly amazing.

Copyright Ralph S. Marston, Jr. Used by permission. From The Daily Motivator® at
www.dailymotivator.com

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.
- - Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily;

nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell upon it constantly.
If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it, let him earn it honestly.
- Anonymous
Concentrate on this sentence.....

When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but
merely opening your hands to receive something better.

Concentrate on this sentence.....

"The Will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not
protect you"

God gives to us the gift of time

To use as best we can,
To live each moment in His will
According to His plan. —Sper

Life is short. Live for God.

1. "Well done is better than well said."

Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)

2. "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its' pants
on."
Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)

3. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
Mother Teresa
(1910-1997)

4. "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

George Washington
(1732-1799)

5. "The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968)
6. "All the adversity I've had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it
when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Walt Disney
(1901-1966)

7. "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)

8. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi
(1913-1970)

9. "It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness."

Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)

10. "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight Eisenhower
(1890-1969)

11. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall."
Nelson Mandela
(1918 - )

12. "We must become the change we wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)

13. "The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are
felt in the heart."
Helen Keller
(1880-1968)

14. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Henry Ford
(1863-1947)

15. "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."

Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004)