Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
— Denis Waitley

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
— Isaac Disraeli

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
-Gloria Steinem

Our task must be to free ourselves ... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
— Albert Einstein

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
- Brian Tracy

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

21 Things to Remember

1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.

2. Most people will be about as happy as they decide to be.

3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.

4. Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have.

5. Success stops when you do.

6. When your ship comes in.... make sure you are willing to unload it.

7. You will never "have it all together."

8. Life is a journey...not a destination. Enjoy the trip!

9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want, I will be happy."

10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

11. I've learned that ultimately, 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.

12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.

13. If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.

14. We often fear the thing we want the most.

15. He or she who laughs... lasts.

16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.

17. Look for opportunities... not guarantees.

18. Life is what's coming... not what was.

19. Success is getting up one more time.

20. Now is the most interesting time of all.

21. When things go wrong... don't go with them.

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
- Dale Carnegie

Make a commitment. Keep your commitment to yourself to show up, to be present and to fully participate in your daily practice. Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, teaches his students there are many options in life, but it is not an option not to meditate. Your practice may not be meditation, but whatever it is, your commitment is needed to sustain it.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
Thomas Leonard

Every word that you express will return to you.
Christian Larson

You become what you think about.
- Carson V. Conant

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen

He who receives his happiness from others may be rich, but he whose contentment is self-willed has inexhaustible wealth.
- Lao Tze

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 -

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller 1880-1968 -

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
- James M. Barrie 1860-1937 -

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffet, 1988-

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
-Maxwell Maltz

A hundred fools together will not make one wise man.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
— Niccolo Machiavelli: was an Italian renaissance writer

Where would we be today if everyone retreated as soon as they came upon an obstacle? We would be suffering the ramifications of losing World War I and II. Without light, of course, since Edison stumbled many times before succeeding. Would we have cars, airplanes, computers? Running water, food, clothing? The late Dr. Randy Pausch said it best, "Brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Prove how badly you want to succeed. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
– Mark Twain

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
– Baltasar Gracian

By the power of TRUTH, I while living ~ have CONQUERED the universe.
- Faust

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