Thoughts & Quotes People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. A snowflake is one of the most fragile of creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! "I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" "People will forget what you said, "It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." "The only people with whom you should try to get even with are those who have helped you." "The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. "The best things in life aren't things." "Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it-that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear." "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? "Let me be a free
man---free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to
trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers,
free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think
and talk and act for myself---and I will obey every law,
or submit to the penalty." Take time to work, it is the
price of success. "Even if you are on the
right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there." "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." I asked God for strength, that
I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might learn
humbly to obey.. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...Chinese proverb Some mistakes are too much fun to make just once! MY JOB It's not my job to run the train, the whistle I can't blow. It's not for me to say how far the train's allowed to go. I'm not allowed to blow off steam, nor even clang the bell. But let the damn thing jump the tracks....and see who catches hell! "If a man empties his purse in his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." ... Benjamin Franklin "It's not the will to win but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference." You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit. "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." "A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." "Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." Triumph is just "umph" added to try. "Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again." "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."Harold S. Geneen (Accountant, Industrialist and CEO) "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." It is not WHAT one says that counts, but what one IS! "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." "People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change." "Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure." "Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you." "It's never too late to be what you might have been." There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self." The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.....Chinese proverb "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." "Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake." "Don't give up your dreams. When they are gone you may still exist, but you've ceased to really live." Sex is not the answer, "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." "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve! "The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever." "True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." "A minute of success pays for years of failure."
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