Anything Can Happen

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that...absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

-Monica Baldwin

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London #quotes #inspiration Pls RT

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 264

Go not to the temple to put flower upon the feet of God,

First fill your own house with the fragrance of love ………

Go not to the temple to light candles before the alter of god,

First remove the darkness of sin from your heart……….

Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,

First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen ……

Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,

First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden ……

Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,

First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore (First Asian Nobel laureate in literature)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 264

Go not to the temple to put flower upon the feet of God,

First fill your own house with the fragrance of love ………

Go not to the temple to light candles before the alter of god,

First remove the darkness of sin from your heart……….

Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,

First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen ……

Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,

First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden ……

Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,

First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore (First Asian Nobel laureate in literature)

Men of genius do not excel in any profession b/c they labor in it, but they labor in it b/c they excel. -Hazlitt

Excellence is an Art

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

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power. -Honore de Balzac

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 263

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path.

~ Swami Vivekananda, the great Hindu monk of India

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 263

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path.

~ Swami Vivekananda, the great Hindu monk of India

Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation. -Roger Staubach Pls RT #quotes

How To Be Perfectly Miserable

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."

-Henry Ford

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business & your business in your heart. -Thomas Watson

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King

"Success is 99% failure." -Soichiro Honda

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 262

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

~ Goutam Buddha

(Indian Prince Siddharth, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 262

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

~ Goutam Buddha

(Indian Prince Siddharth, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C)

A New Crop of Fools

Every generation a new crop of fools comes on. They think they can beat the orderly universe. They conceive thmselves to be more clever than the eternal laws. They snatch goods from Nature's store, and run.... And one by one they all come back to Nature's counter, and pay--pay in tears, in agony, in despair; pay as fools before them have paid. Nature keeps books pitilessly. Your credit with her is good, but she collects; there is no land you can flee to escape her bailiffs. She never forgets; she sees to it that you pay her every cent you owe, with interest. -Dr. Frank Crane

Success often comes 2 those who dare 2 act. It seldom goes 2 the timid who R ever afraid of the consequences. -Nehru

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. -Schaef

Self-trust is the first secret to success. -Emerson

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. -Peale Pls RT

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions & content with your knowledge. -Elbert Hubbard

There Are Two Kinds Of Men

There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

-Cyrus Curtis

Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be. -Calvin Coolidge Pls RT

The trouble with the rat race is that when you get to the top of the pack, you are still a rat. -Lily Tomlin

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. -Bruyere

Sweet Fulfillment

There's no thrill in easy sailing,
When the sky is clear and blue.

There's no joy in merely doing
Things which anyone can do.

But there is some fulfillment
That is mighty sweet to take.

When you reach a destination,
You thought you couldn't make.

-unknown

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. -Sir William Osler

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Russell

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -Walter Elliott

We Are Only Half Awake

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts, which he habitually fails to use. -William James

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 261

The worst thing you can lose : Self-respect
The most satisfying work : Helping others
The ugliest personality trait : Selfishness
The most beautiful attire : A smile
The most prized possession : Integrity




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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 261

The worst thing you can lose : Self-respect
The most satisfying work : Helping others
The ugliest personality trait : Selfishness
The most beautiful attire : A smile
The most prized possession : Integrity




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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 260

To the world, you may be just one person;
but to one person, you may be the world!

~Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 260

To the world, you may be just one person;
but to one person, you may be the world!

~Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 259

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

~Abraham Lincoln

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 259

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

~Abraham Lincoln

The only way of finding the limit of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clark

The Possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. -Emily Dickinson

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. -Honoré de Balzac Pls RT

"It's better to have sloppy success than perfect mediocrity." -unknown Pls RT #quotes

"Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame." -Baltasar Gracian Pls RT

Dream Lofty Dreams

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil." -John Ruskin

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"We grow great by dreams." -Woodrow Wilson

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -Bernard Berenson

Great Opportunites

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings. -Albert E. Dunning

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. -Inuit proverb

Procrastination Results in Regret

"Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time."
-Ida Scott Taylor

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"I can live for two months on a good compliment." -Mark Twain

The Rigorous Law Of Our Being

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows---it must grow; nothing can prevent it. -Mark Twain

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“There is no security in this world. There is only opportunity.” -General Douglas MacArthur

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice." -George Jackson

Dream Lofty Dreams

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. -James Allen

"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody." -Helen Brown

"It may be that those who do most, dream most." -Stephen Leacock

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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man--his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. -Carl Jung

Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else. -Tennessee Williams

Times of Great Calamity

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest strom. -Charles Caleb Colton

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. -Oscar Wilde

In the arena of life the honors & rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -Aristotle

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream. -Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -G.K. Chesterton

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. -Woodrow Wilson

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. -Marcus Antoninus

People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if u want them to hand some over to u, u have to be nice to people! -Wilde

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. -Thoreau

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -unknown

U have 2 put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates b4 U achieve anything worthwhile. -Brian Tracy

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. -Wayne Dyer

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Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better. -Thoreau

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New post: To Achieve Your Dreams Remember Your ABCs http://bit.ly/LQ0K3

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, & words return to us sooner or later, w/ astounding accuracy. -unknown

New post: The Paradoxical Commandments http://bit.ly/QCBL5

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. -Billy Sunday

New post: Never Too Late: Poem by Longfellow http://bit.ly/N1SF7

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be--not what you nag them to be. -Scudder Parker

Invincible Determination

The longer I live, the more deeply I'm convinced that what makes the difference between one man and another, the great and the insignificant, is energy, that invincible determination, a purpose that once formed nothing can take away. The energetic quality will do anything that is meant by God to be done in this world, and no talent, training, opportunity, or circumstance will make any man without it.

-Sir Thomas Buxton

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. -William James #quotes #inspire

I never did a day's work in my life--it was all fun. -Thomas Edison

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Stephen Leacock

Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises. -Demosthenes #quotes

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. -Robert Schuller

Be Careful What You Think

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

-Blaise Pascal

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed a lot. -Winston Churchill

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -Mark Twain

I owe my success 2 having listened respectfully 2 the very best advice & then going away & doing the exact opposite. -Chesterton

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. -William Henry Davies #quotes Pls RT

Foundation Stones

In building a firm foundation for success, here are a few stones to remember:

1. The wisdom of preparation.
2. The value of confidence.
3. The worth of honesty.
4. The privilege of working.
5. The discipline of struggle.
6. The magnetism of character.
7. The radiance of health.
8. The forcefulness of simplicity.
9. The winsomeness of courtesy.
10. The attractiveness of modesty.
11. The inspiration of cleanliness.
12. The satisfaction of serving.
13. The power of suggestion.
14. The buoyancy of enthusiasm.
15. The advantage of initiative.
16. The virtue of patience.
17. The rewards of cooperation.
18. The fruitfulness of perseverance.
19. The sportsmanship of losing.
20. The joy of winning.
-Rollo C. Hester

Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you're the man who made them. -Frank Tyger #quotes Pls RT :)

Success Quote by Margaret Thatcher

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddently all sorts of powers, all sort of abilities which you thought never belonged to you---suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

-Margaret Thatcher

In achieving success, backbone is more important than wishbone. -Frank Tyger

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Every Day Review Our Purpose

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
-Thomas A. Kempis