What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -Mignon McLaughlin

Develop That Latent Force In You

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

-John Heywood

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. -Robert Updegraff

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 277

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 277

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Opportunities: An Adventure in Disaster

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

-Edward McCabe

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -William Boetcker

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. -Benjamin Franklin

You Might Be On The Line Of Success And Not Know It

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

-Elbert Hubbard

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. -William Saroyan

The Highway to Success

Failure...is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

-John Keats

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -G.B. Shaw

Expect Victory

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

-Preston Bradley

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel Reardon

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. -Saint Bartholomew

Success On Your Own Terms

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

-Harrison Ford

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -George Bernard Shaw

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. -Emerson

One Determined Person

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

-Sonia Johnson

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. -James Baldwin

Habitually Direct Your Powers

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. -Joanna Field

A Dynamic Conquering Spirit

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done.

-Arland Gilbert

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. -Malcolm Forbes #quotes

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire. -Epictetus #quotes

A Road Built In Hope Is More Pleasant

It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

-Marion Zimmer Bradley

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -Charles Colton

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. -Samuel Johnson

The Passionate Enthusiast

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

-Thomas Carlyle

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, & with it none despised. -Christian Bovee

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. -Lorraine Hansbury #quotes

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 276

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 276

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 275

“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

~Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 275

“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

~Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 274

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

~Albert Schweitzer

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 274

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

~Albert Schweitzer

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson #quotes

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 273

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 273

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 272

Life can be found only in the present moment.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here,
and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment,
we cannot be in touch with life.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 272

Life can be found only in the present moment.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here,
and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment,
we cannot be in touch with life.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -Sir Isaac Newton #quotes

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 271

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste 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 too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

~Mother Teresa

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 271

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste 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 too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

~Mother Teresa

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 270

Death is but changing of our robes to wait
In wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 270

Death is but changing of our robes to wait
In wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

~ Sri Aurobindo

The Success Family

The Success Family

The Father of Success is Work.
The Mother of Success is Ambition.
The Oldest Son is Common Sense.
Some of the other brothers are:
Perseverance, Honesty, Thoroughness,
Foresight, Enthusiasm, Cooperation.
The Oldest Daughter is Character.
Some of the other sisters are:
Cheerfulness, Loyalty, Courtesy, Care,
Economy, Sincerity, Harmony.
The Baby is Opportunity.
Get acquainted with the “old man” and you will be able to get along pretty well with the rest of the family.
-unknown

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personal Satisfaction and Better Business

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do. -Patricia Fripp

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King, Jr. #quotes #inspiration

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin