Wise Sayings

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
-- Brian Tracy

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
-- Henry L. Doherty (1870-1939)

There is no job on the planet that is just for you. If you make yourself loving and happy inside, any job is for you.

- John-Roger

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
-Ann Landers

It is while trying to get everything straight in our heads that we get confused.

When someone shares with you something of value, you have an obligation to share it with others!

"PROMISE yourself to be so STRONG that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is SOMETHING in them.
To look at the SUNNY SIDE of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the BEST, to work only for the best and expect only the best.
To be ENTHUSIASTIC about the SUCCESS OF OTHERS as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements of the FUTURE.
To wear a CHEERFUL countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the IMPROVEMENT of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too LARGE for worry, too NOBLE for anger, too STRONG for fear and
too HAPPY to permit the presence of trouble."

~ Christian D. Larson

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-- Laurence J. Peter (1919-1988)

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'

-- Dr. Robert Schuller

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of
what you want, it is therealization
of how much you already have."

"A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily WANT to go
but ought to BE."

~ Rosalynn Carter

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
-- Laurence J. Peter

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
-- Khalil Gibran

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.
-- L. Tom Perry

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

-- Japanese proverb

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'

-- Dr. Robert Schuller

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
-- Walter Anderson

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've fouled over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed."

~ Michael Jordan

Regardless of behavior, appearance, or presentation, every human being is involved in their own particular rate of spiritual progress. Their own rate is their divine right. It's of much greater value to love them than to judge or criticize them.

-- John-Roger with Paul Kaye

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, here is the place, we are the men. Today is always our most wonderful day.

Every act can be made strong and effective by holding your vision while you are doing it and by putting the whole power of your faith and purpose into it.
-- Wallace Wattles

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work.
You only need to find one good reason why it will.
Stay inspired and take the lead for your future
~ Dr Robert Anthony

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
-- Dr. Stephen Covey

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
-- William Arthur Ward

A house fills with “cannots”, without the feeling of love, harmony, peace and respect, is merely a place where family members eat, shit and sleep. It can never be a home no matter how caring we think we are.

Right and wrong, can and cannot is merely a measurement of standards. It is really who’s right and wrong; who’s can and cannot. As everyone is unique and has different standard of performance. Respect others as they are is critical in working as a team.

Everyone loves to excel, no one wants to do a lousy job, feedback respectfully in enhancing others’ performance will always be appreciated; speak ruthlessly, it only tarnish our emotional bank account with the concerned party.

Effectiveness in interpersonal relationship is greatly dependence on our emotional accounts with people. Wherever we compliment people truthfully, adding value to people, our emotional accounts are credited; wherever we condemn, criticism, speak harshly to people, our accounts are debited. When we have a high credit with an individual, everything we do, speak will go. On the hand, when our emotional account is low with a particular individual, nothing we speak, even the greatest truth of all truths, will not be received wholeheartedly.

“Sickly Failures” attract negatives by their own doing. They talk themselves into failing. They do not truly believe living in happiness and harmony. Avoid them if you can. Do not council them on the positives of life for it will surely be back-fire.

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-- Robert Collier

Write a goal every single month to eliminate a mess from your life, and when you do - abundance will come in.
-- Raymond Aaron

The first law of success is service.We get what we give, and for this reason we should consider it a great privilege to give.
-- Charles Haanel

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

Before you can ask for anything you have to know what you want and you have to believe that is possible for you to get it.
-- Jack Canfield & MV Hansen

The middle course is the best.
-- Cleobulus

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

-- Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)

Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919)

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
-- Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
-- Stedman Graham

“Those who do notfind some time every day for health, must sacrifice a lot of time

one day for illness.” – Sebastian Kneipp

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-- Gail Devers

If there is no Passion in your life, then have you really lived?
Find your passion, whatever it may be.
Become it, and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
When work, commitment and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is IMPOSSIBLE
- T. Alan Armstrong

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -- Harry Fosdick (1878-1969)

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what is still possible for you to do."
~ John XXIII

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
-- Les Brown

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.
-- Warren Buffet

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.
-- Diana Rankin

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
-- William Arthur

Success is measured by your growth, service, joy and inner peace.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

-- Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)

“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.

You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love"

~ quoted by Raina Ng
Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes and make amends; they don't quit.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
-- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
-- William F. Scolavino

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Be prepared to be condemned and criticized and choose to avoid condemning and criticizing. Stanley Cham

Power of one! One leads to many. From many it leads back to one complexity. Master one, master many.

Sale is about spontaneous; knowledge contradicts and may lead to destruction.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
-- Carl Schurz

The highest service we can perform for others is
to help them help themselves.
-- Horace Mann

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault-finding. All it will do is discolored my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
-- Og Mandino

People who are “being” are fully present. They are totally engaged in the moment. This engagement includes an easy appreciation and sense of connection with whomever or whatever they are relating to at the time. These people are aware of a job well done or a difficulty surmounted and will respect and often acknowledge the person who has accomplished it. “Being” is a state of heart and mind that is receptive and able to listen carefully.
-- Sallirae Henderson

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
-- Bill Gates

Warren Buffet, one of the greatest investors of all time, offers the best strategy:"Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."

Investors like Warren Buffet and Donald Trump continually profit from this mantra.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-- Dale Carnegie

Become a man of value rather than a man of success.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

-- Peter F-2005)

. Drucker (1909

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
-- Lord Chesterfield

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

-- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
--Andre Maurois (1885-1967)

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
--Oprah Winfrey

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
-- W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)

By your thinking, you are either adding to your good or you are taking away from it. Failure or lack in your life is simply the result of continuously minus-ing yourself. Conversely, success and prosperity are the results of constantly plus-ing yourself.
--Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

-- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

Judge not your neighbor till you've been in his place.
-- Hillel, Mishna: Abot

Knowledge and action are twins, each glorifying the other.

- Joseph Kimhi, "Shekel HaKodesh"

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.
-- George E. Allen (1832-1907)

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

-- Stephen R. Covey (b. 1932)

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of the hearts.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, 1930

The future you see is the future you get.
-- Robert G. Allen

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
-- A. Lou Vickery

One way to cooperate with people who are expressing negative attitudes is to let them win, to let them have their way. It's easy. When they have won, you can continue going in your own positive direction without becoming involved in their point of view at all.
-- John-Roger

Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
-- Buddha

The quality of the answers that we get in life is truly determined by the quality of the questions we ask.
-- Paul Martinelli