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Quotations from
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These quotations were selected because they had specific meaning or
principles to teach for the specific sections. We hope that you may use
them for meditating or pondering, to enhance a speech or teaching
moment, to be an encouragement or a gentle reminder as we go through our
journey of life.
"Open your heart and mind, let the magic of your
uniqueness, your creativity, and
the power of choice work miracles in your life as you set your life's
goals."
Daniel A. Janssen
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the
result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution.
It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."
William A. Foster
"Becoming the most that you can be through the
power of pursuing your major life goals."
Daniel A. Janssen
"The potential of the average person is like a
huge ocean unsailed, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some good."
Brian Tracy
"Some people are more talented than others. Some
are more educationally privileged than others. But we all have the
capacity to be great. Greatness comes with recognizing that your
potential is limited only by how you choose, how you use your freedom,
how resolute you are, in short, by your attitude. And we are all free to
choose our attitude."
Peter Koestenbaum
"We must all
suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of
regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs
tons."
Jim Rohn
"The problem in life isn’t
finding the right answer but identifying our current questions."
Celestine Prophecy
"Ask and it will be
given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.."
Matthew 7:7
"Give me a stock clerk
with a goal and I will give you someone who will make history. Give me
someone with out a goal and I will give you a stock clerk"
J.C. Penny
"Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison
"One day Alice came to a
fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take?
she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know,
Alice answered.
Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter."
Lewis Carroll
"We make our world
significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our
answers"
Carl Sagan
"The person with a fixed
goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him,
causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious
mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power,
to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical
effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will
achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed
to that end"
Claude M. Bristol
"We teach what we know,
but we reproduce what we are."
Sir Winston Churchill
"What ever the mind can conceive and believe it
can achieve."
Napoleon Hill
"Confidence is the ability to act on your goals
consistent
with your values despite your feelings and situation."
Daniel A. Janssen
"I feel that the most important step in any major
accomplishment is setting a specific goal.
This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many
obstacles
that will arise when you’re striving to do your best."
Kurt Thomas
"Decide what you want, decide what you are
willing to exchange for it.
Establish your priorities and go to work."
H. L. Hunt
"The long term consequences are the true measure
of anything important that you have to do."
Brian Tracy
"Unless commitment is made, there are only
promises and hopes; but no plans"
Peter F. Drucker
"Try not to become a man of success but rather
try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know
what your values are."
Roy Disney
"The measure of a man's real character is what he
would do if he would never be found out."
Thomas MaCauley
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a
man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"It is peculiar that man can only live by looking
to the future."
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by
what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances
are you'll fall into someone else's plan.
And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn
"I believe life is constantly testing us for our
level of commitment, and
life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a
never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve
can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As
simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator
separating those who live their dreams from those who live in
regret"
Anthony Robbins
"Our goals can only
be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently
believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route
to success"
Stephen A. Brennan
"In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable."
Dwight D Eisenhower
"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own
it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once
you've lost it, you can never get it back."
Harvey Mackay
"We must use time creatively and forever realize
that time is hope to do great things"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"To put the world in right order, we must first
put the nation in order,
to put the nation in order we must put the family in order,
to put the family in order we must first cultivate our personal life,
we must first set our hearts right."
Confucius
"Before
we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and
values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more
unobtainable."
Marylin Ferguson
"Once you make a
decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Listen to advice and
accept instruction and in the end you will be wise."
Proverb
"An undecided mind is
a dangerous way to live."
Daniel A. Janssen
Personal Development is
the deliberate growth or development of a particular individual to bring
out their potential and capabilities making them more aware of their
inner feelings, belief systems to become a more conscious, whole or
healthy human being.
Daniel A. Janssen
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of
intelligent people, and the affection of children; to earn the
appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a
bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social
condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
That is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison
"There is one quality which one must possess to
win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what
one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
Napoleon Hill
Attitude
"The only limitation placed on our abilities is the inability to
easily recognize our unlimited nature . It takes effort to become aware
of our staggering and limitless abilities, it takes effort to become
enthusiastic over a cause or an occupation. It takes effort to continue
when our results as well as our friends tell us to give up trying. It
takes effort to feel right about everything that happens, the joy and
the sorrow of life. It takes effort to learn to love ourselves above all
others, especially when we are so conscious of our failures, doubts and
tragedies. It does not however take effort to fail. It is ironic that
one of the few things in this life we have total control over is our
attitude and yet most of us live our entire life behaving as if we have
no control whatsoever. By our attitude we decide to read or not to read,
by our attitude we decide to try or to give up, by our attitude we blame
ourselves for our failure or foolishly blame others. Our attitude
determines whether we love or hate, tell the truth or lie, act or
procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude,
we and we alone actually decide whether to
succeed or fail"
Jim Rohn
The Serenity Prayer.
"Oh God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not
change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time."
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
"The
only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Lord, grant that I
may not seek so much to be understood as to understand"
Saint Francis of Assisi 1182-1226
"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat.
Health alone is victory.
Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy"
Thomas Carlyle
"Conducting your business in a socially
responsible way is good business.
It means that you can attract better employees and that customers
will know what you stand for and like you for it"
M. Anthony Burns
"The best augur of a man’s success in his
profession is that he
thinks it’s the finest in the world"
George Eliot
"You do not get power so that you can go out and
do things,
you go out and do things and you will get the power"
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
"Of journeying the benefits are many: the
freshness it bringeth to the heart,
the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new
cities,
the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners"
Sadi, Gulistan
"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand
to hand until it finally disappears"
Robert W. Sarnoff
"There is one advantage to having nothing, it
never needs repair"
Frank A. Clark
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a
life by what we give"
Sir Winston Churchill
"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has
to search for
it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view
of truth"
Mahatma Gandhi
"The quality of an individual is reflected in the
standards they set for themselves"
Ray Kroc
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the
ancient rule of taking first things first, a process which often reduces
the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one
step"
Lao-Tzu
"When you are tough on yourself, life is
inevitably easy.
When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult"
Zig Ziglar
"All
who have accomplished great things have had a great aim,
have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high"
Orison Sweet Marden
"There is one quality
which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose,
the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess
it."
Napoleon Hill
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