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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days...What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, Poet, Novelist, and Scientist) 

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot) 

"Look for more and more things in every day to appreciate. Then watch your life in the days and weeks ahead blossom before you." --Eva 

Fall seven times, stand up eight. (Japanese Proverb) 

We are not just our behaviour, we are the person managing our behaviour. (Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D., American Business Lecturer, Author) 

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just getting the job done.' Excel!"  (Tom Hopkins, American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author) 

"Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success." (David O. McKay, Ninth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). 

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. (Unknown Author). 

"When our light is shining bright, we have the opportunity to make a difference by fanning the flame of another whose light may be dim." (Eva) 

Do or do not. There is no try. (Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back') 

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. (Richard M. Nixon, in his White House farewell) 

"Human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." (Arnold J. Toynbee) 

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." (Sophocles) 

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." (Colette) 

"Life is always moving forward. If you feel you're going backwards, just turn around." (Eva) 

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. (Henri Matisse) 

'If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.' (Walt Disney) 

'We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.' (Martha Grimes) 

'Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.' (Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr.) 

In general, human beings do not do 'big' things. We do little things. We get up, we go to work. We hug our loved ones, we make phone calls. We balance the cheque book, exercise and fix dinner. We do little things! Highly successful people simply do the right little things, at the right time, in the right way, and they do lots of them. If you would achieve great things, do little things and pile them one on top of another, until you reach the stars. (Philip Humbert).

"I've found in life that the more I'm willing to let go, the more I get back." (Eva)

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. (Jacopo Sannazaro)

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) 

"Whatever the question, love is the answer." (Eva) 

Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. -- The Mishnah 

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfilment in the circumstances where others choose madness. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer). 

A hammer breaks glass, but forges steel. (Old Russian proverb) 

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher) 

"I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." (Katherine Mansfield1888-1923, Writer) 

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times') 

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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. (Lady Bird Johnson) 

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. (Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985) 

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. (Sydney Smith) 

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. (John Ruskin) 

"Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone." (Unknown - Submitted by Alia Kraishan) 

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." (Confucius) 

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." (Rita Mae Brown) 

"It is heart-warming to know we don't have to agree with one another in order to accept one another. Ultimately, we're on the same side." -(Eva) 

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. (Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha) 

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. (Mahatma Gandhi) 

Boredom is simply a lack of attention. (Christopher Fremantle 1906 - 1978, philosopher, teacher)

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. (Ken Keyes, Jnr.) 

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.  -- Pythagoras 

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana 

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. (Marcel Proust) 

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor) 

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. (Oprah Winfrey) 

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." (Robert Louis Stevenson, Author) 

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. (Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time') 

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Eden Phillpotts 1862-1960, Indian-born British Novelist) 

The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. (Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991) 

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor) 

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. (Malcolm X) 

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. (Bonnie Prudden) 

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and greed. (Voltaire, Candide, 1759) 

'There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.' (Wayne Dyer) 

"Commitment is what transforms promise into reality." (Eva) 

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life. (Chris Evert) 

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. (Jacob Braude) 

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.( Eugene Delacroix) 

"Each of us bring our own uniqueness to this life. Rather than comparing yourself to others, set your own standards." (Eva) 

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. (Martin Fraquhar Tupper) 

If learning is not compulsory... then neither is survival. (W. Edwards Deming) 

"Be the best you can be by focusing on your potential, not your limitations." (Eva) 

 "You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well." (Irvine Robbins, Co-Founder of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream) 

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. (Harold Taylor) 

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. (Benjamin Disraeli) 

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. (Joseph Campbell)  

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. (Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965) 

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Rilke 

Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597) 

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Chinese Proverb) 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. -- Dan McKinnon 

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Pearl Buck) 

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. (Spanish Proverb) 

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. (Bertie C. Forbes) 

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." (Thomas Jefferson) 

"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts." (Jean Vanier) 

"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." (Harry Emerson Fosdick) 

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." (Abraham Lincoln) 

The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller, 'Optimism, ' 1903) 

"A masterful teacher knows how to draw the learning out of the student rather than hammering the learning in." (Eva) 

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. (Stuart's Law of Retroaction) 

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol) 

Kindness is wisdom. (Phillip J. Bailey) 

Wisdom is know what to do next; virtue is doing it. (David Starr Jordan, American naturalist) 

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. (Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance) 

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." (Mary Pickford, 1893-1979, Actress and Producer) 

"I find the louder I raise my voice, the less another one hears." (Eva) 

Without discipline, there's no life at all. (Katharine Hepburn) 

'If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.' (Norman Vincent Peale) 

'People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals, that is goals that do not inspire them.' (Anthony Robbins) 

"Do the most important things when you are awake, rested, focused and eager; in other words when you are happy." 
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick  to one thing till it gets there. (Josh Billings, 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer) 

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. ( Aesop) 

"It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we  suffer without learning the lesson." (Emmet Fox). 

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (The Dalai Lama)