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The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. - Bob Moawad
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A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17
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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel. Proverbs 27:9
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I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15
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Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: 10 If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
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Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17
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- Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
- Lucas Hellmer
Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.
- Stephen S. Wise
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
- Jack Welch
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
- Thaddeus Golas
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Dr Maya Angelou, born in 1928, is a poet and well known autobiographer. She is one of the strongest and most admired female voices across the world.
If you don’t
like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t
complain - Maya Angelou
A bird doesn’t
sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song - Maya Angelou
Nothing will
work unless you do - Maya Angelou
Courage: the
most important of all virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any
other virtue consistently - Maya Angelou
I have found
that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver - Maya Angelou
There is no
greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you - Maya Angelou
If you have
only one smile, give it to the people you love - Maya Angelou
I do not trust
people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There’s an
African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt - Maya Angelou
The first time
someone shows you who they are, believe them - Maya Angelou
My mission in
life is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and do so with passion,
compassion, some humor and some style - Maya
Angelou
Proverbs define a culture. Every culture speaks to generations through its sayings and proverbs. They are timeless and full of wisdom. Lessons learned as we grow, they tend to stick with us through out our lives. Here are some proverbs and sayings I remember from childhood, they are sure to make you laugh ... I am sure you know most of them, some you might have forgotten and others you must have shared with your children and friends. Have fun.
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
• Empty vessels make the loudest noise.
• Birds of the same feather flock together.
• Prevention is better than cure.
• All work and no play makes Jake a dull boy.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
• A good beginning makes a good ending.
• All that glitters is not gold.• A bird in hand is worth fifty in the bush.
• Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
• Bad news travels fast.
• A house divided cannot stand.
• Don't put new wine in old bottles.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• Better late than never.
• It takes two to tango.
• Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
• Stop crying over spilled milk.
• Behind every great man, there's a great woman.
• A penny saved is a penny earned.
• Misery loves company.
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
• Cut your coat according to your size.
• A new broom sweeps clean.
• Do unto others as you want them to do unto you.
• A person is known by the company he keeps.
• The downfall of a man is not the end of his life.
• A picture paints a thousands words.
• Cowards die many times before their death.
• Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
• A prophet is never recognized in his own land.
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
• Let sleeping dogs lie.
• A stitch in time saves many.
• Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
• A woman's place is in the kitchen.
• Cleanliness is next to godliness.
• A word to the wise is enough.
• It takes a thief to catch a thief.
• A good man is hard to find.
• Jack of all trades, master of none.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• Children should be seen, and not heard.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• Let bygones be bygones.
• All good things must come to an end.
• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
• All roads lead to Rome.
• All's well that ends well.
• Blood is thicker than water.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• As you make your bed, so shall you lie on it.
• As you sow, so shall you reap.
• Barking dogs seldom bite.
• Half a loaf is better than none.
• A new broom sweeps clean.• Every cloud has a silver lining.
• To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
• He who laughs last laughs best.
• Fortune favors the brave.
• Love makes the world go round.
• God helps those who help themselves.
What's your favorite? What childhood saying did I leave out that you would like to share with us? Please, comment and share. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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◊ Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them – Frank Clark
◊ Habits are first cobwebs, then cables – Spanish Proverb
◊ A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit – Desiderius Erasmus
◊ Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them – Confucius
◊ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired – Mortimer Caplan
◊ Watch your thoughts, they become words
Watch your words, they become actions
Watch your actions, they become habits
Watch your habits, they become your
character
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny – Frank Outlaw
◊ The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do – Thomas Edison
◊ There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision – William James
◊ Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have – Dale Carnegie
◊ A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right – Thomas Paine
◊ Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become JUST by doing JUST acts, TEMPERATE by doing TEMPERATE acts, BRAVE by doing BRAVE acts – Aristotle
◊ The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it – Leo Aikman
◊ Character is long-standing habit – Plutarch
◊ Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
◊ Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow – Yiddish Proverb
◊ The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change – Eng’s Principle
◊ We first make our habits, and then our habits make us – John Dryden
◊ It’s like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone – Merrill Markoe
◊ Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of – Unknown
◊ The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken – Samuel Johnson
◊ Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going – Jim Ryun
◊ Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses – George Washington Carver
◊ Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you – Frank Crane
◊ We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
◊ Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you – Elbert Hubbard
◊ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle
Known as one of the greatest boxers of all time, Muhammad Ali seems somewhat larger than life - bold, colorful, out spoken with a punch unlike any other in and out of the ring. Also a great humanitarian and ambassador of peace, this living legend is certainly someone we need to listen to.
Muhammad Ali quotes:
Great words on leadership written by great minds from all walks of life. Through 'quotes' we learn from experiences of others, as I am sure you will as you read this collection of powerful and educative words of wisdom on leadership.
~ The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!'; a leader says, 'Let's go!' - E.M. Kelly
~ A leader is a man who makes decisions. Sometimes they turn out right and sometimes they turn out wrong, but either way, he makes them – Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.
~ Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave – Henry Peter Brougham
~ The task
of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not
been – Henry Kissinger
~ You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault not leadership - Dwight D Eisenhower
~ Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it - Dwight Eisenhower
~ Leadership cannot be taught. It can only be learned – Harold Geneen
~ The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant – Max DePree
~ Management
is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether
the ladder is leaning against the right wall – Stephen R. Covey
~ The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows – Clarence Randall
~ All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership – John Kenneth Galbraith
~ Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination – Unknown
~ Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow – Chinese Proverb
~ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality – Warren G Bennis
~ Leadership is action, not position – Donald H. McGannon
~ Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them – John C. Maxwell
~ A GOOD leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a GREAT leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves – Adlai Stevenson
~ A leader is a dealer in hope – Napoleon Bonaparte
~ It is hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse – Carl Sagan
~ But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown – Don Marquis
~ Inventories can be managed, but people must be led – Herbert B Swope
~ I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody – Isaac Newton
~ If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you – H. Ross Perot
~ If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants – James Callaghan
~ A leader must have the courage to act against expert advice – Ralph Nader
~ I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers – Robert Greenleaf
~ Good leaders must first become good servants – Theodore Hesburgh
~ Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal – Vince Lombardi
~ If you
fail to honor your people,
~ They will
fail to honor you,
It is said
of a good leader that
When the work is done, the aim is fulfilled,
The people will say, "We did this ourselves". Lao Tzu
~ Leadership
has been defined as the ability to hid your panic from others – Anonymous
~ Strong leaders are those who let their pride down, develop resilience and follow in the footsteps of a mentor until they become successful - Albert & Lema Nsah, in The Rising Star
~ People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within – Elisabeth Kubler Ross
~ If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price – Author Unknown
~ Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown – Author Unknown
~ They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers – Christian Bovee
~ There are some people who live in a dreamworld, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other – Douglas Everett
~ A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others – Ayn Rand
~ Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers – Mignon McLaughlin
~ The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled – Andrew Carnegie
~ What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate – Henry David Thoreau
~ Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts – Augustus William Hare
~ How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it – Robert Brault
~ Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands – Francis Bacon
~ God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily – Author Unknown
~ Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is – Vince Lombardi
~ Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy – Norman Vincent Peale
~ While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for as they say stopping and smelling the roses – Eli Broad
~ Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it – Walter Chrysler
~ I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money – Jim Cramer
~ Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework – Thomas Edison
~ A new friend is like new wine, when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure – Ecclesiastes 9:10
~ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein
~ When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won’t come up with a hand full of mud either – Leo Burnett
~ Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this – Henry Ford
~ It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are – Roy Disney
~ Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley
~ A bend in the road is not the end of the road … unless you fail to make the turn – Unknown
~ It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems). – Melanie Tonia Evans
~ To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves … let us be above such transparent egotism – Will Durant
~ Do more than belong, participate. Do more than care, help. Do more than believe, practice. Do more than be fair, be kind.Do more than forgive, forget. Do more than dream, work. – William Arthur Ward
Perseverance = Endurance
~ He conquers who endures – Persius
~ It is not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer – Albert Einstein
~ People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them – G.B. Shaw
~ There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream –Author Unknown
~ The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling – Lucretius
~ The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings – Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent – that it does not have to be recognized by others – Robert Brault
~ Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second – William James
~ A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors – Antonio Porchia
~ In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins not through strength but by perseverance – H. Jackson Brown
~ Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock – Unknown
~ Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts – Winston Churchill
~ Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals – Aristotle
~ Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience – Admiral Hyman Rickover
~ He who does not tire, tires adversity – Anonymous
~ Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose – Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ No man is ever whipped, until he quits… in his own mind – Napoleon Hill
~ Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance – Dr Samuel Johnson
~ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish – John Quincy Adams
~ Boys, there ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance – Lee Iacocca
~ By perseverance the snail reached the ark – Charles Haddon
~ If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius – Joseph Addison
~ Take it from me: Life is a struggle but you can win – Erin Brockovich
~ Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately – Andrew Carnegie
~ It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop – Confucius
~ The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing – Steven Covey
~ Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after the other – Walter Elliot
~ Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience – Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving – Morgan Freeman
~ When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” – Author Unknown
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