~*~  If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how 
can your natural gifts ever emerge? - Richard Bach

~*~  "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana

~*~  "Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible
likely, and the likely definite."
Robert Half

~*~  "What worries you, masters you."
Haddon W. Robinson

~*~  The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the
things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service
of our highest aspirations.
Peter M. Senge

~*~  You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must
make it.
Charles Buxton

~*~  How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply
important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage
ourselves each day to be and do what really matters most.
Stephen R. Covey

~*~  If you were starting over today, what would you do differently?
Whatever your answer, start doing it now.
Brian Tracy

~*~  "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the
future."
- Paul Boese

~*~  Truce is better than friction.
Charles Herguth

~*~  One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.

~*~  You have two hands. One to help yourself - the second to help others.
G. Coghlan (567-540)

~*~  The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you 
hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

~*~  If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

~*~  The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people: 
Their motivation and direction.
Ken Gilbert

~*~  You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
William Boetcker

~*~  Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is 
demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker

~*~  I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
Akeem Olajuwon

~*~  You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
Bob Richards

~*~  I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my 
unconditional confidence in their abilities.
John Robinson

~*~  Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Unknown

~*~  Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
Max Schmelling

~*~  The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should 
always have a goal.
Francie Larrieu Smith

~*~  This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do 
with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

~*~  Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
George Van Valkenburg

~*~  Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that 
life is made up of little things.
Frank A. Clark

~*~  A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Erin Majors

~*~  Positive Believing is the companion of power and the mother of success.

~*~  The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the 
mind cannot understand.
Robert Vallett

~*~  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

~*~  In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

~*~  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

~*~  Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may 
win, By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

~*~  The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become 
obvious.
Unknown

~*~  Listen a hundred times, Ponder a thousand times, Speak once!"
Unknown

~*~  Private victories precede public victories.
S. R. Covey

~*~  One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

~*~  Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
Robert Collier

~*~  Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
Leroy Van Dyke

~*~  Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made 
of things.
T. S. Eliot

~*~  "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that 
matter."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

~*~  "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of 
these."
George Washington Carver

~*~  Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by 
the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by 
the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do 
color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.
--John Homer Miller

~*~  If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I 
would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
Allyson Jones

~*~  "There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a 
living, And the other how to live."
--John Adams

~*~  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan

~*~  Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an 
emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the 
time, but unless we go into every room, every day, even if only to keep it 
aired, we are not a complete person.
--Indian Proverb

~*~  I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely 
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite 
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

~*~  Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a 
symphony orchestra and all they played were the little happy high notes. 
Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the 
cymbals and the minor keys.
Jim Rohn

~*~  "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb

~*~  "Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic."
Rosalind Russell

~*~  "It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so 
much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or 
maybe thinking is another kind of music."
Ursula K. Le Guin

~*~  The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your 
problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity
Unknown

~*~  The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Althsuler

~*~  Tough times never last, but tough people do!
Robert Schuller

~*~  Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
David Wilkerson

~*~  We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~*~  The past should be a springboard not a hammock.

~*~  "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge,
and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
   George Bernard Shaw

~*~  "The best of my education has come from the public library...
my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents
a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much
to start with, if you know the way to the public library."
         - Lesley Conger

~*~  "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
         - Alvin Toffler

~*~  "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney

~*~  More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.
Spanish Proverb

~*~  It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
  Zelda Fitzgerald

~*~  "If one desires a change, one must BE that change before that change 
can take place."
Gita Bellin

~*~
"Vision without action is merely a dream.
  Action without vision just passes the time.
  Vision with action can change the world"
Joel Barker

~*~  Parents... you raised the bird now let them fly

~*~  "When written in Chinese, the word crisis
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
  John F. Kennedy

~*~  Laughter is the sun that drives winter from
      the human face.
Victor Hugo

~*~  "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

~*~  "Look for the good in every person and every situation.  You'll almost 
always find it." - Brian Tracy

~*~
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it
literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created
by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. -
Joseph Sugarman

~*~  "It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have 
to do, that makes life blessed." - Johann von Goethe

~*~  A little spark kindles a great fire.
Spanish proverb

~*~  "All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle."

~*~  "Love is but a discovery of ourselves and the delight in the recognition."
Alexander Smith

~*~  "Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it."
Danny Kaye

~*~  "There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The true 
nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

~*~  Only you can give up on yourself.

~*~  "Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better
tomorrow."
Doug Firebaugh

~*~  "I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness
exhausts me completely."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

~*~  "It isn't work, it's worry that makes people tired and
frustrated."
J. E. Gulick

~*~  "I am only one; but still I am one.  I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something.  I will not refuse to do the
something I can do."
Helen Keller

~*~  "Everything counts!  Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up
or takes away."
Brian Tracy

~*~  "Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be
satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
Samuel Smiles

~*~  The Golden Rule of networking is simply this... All things
being equal, people will do business with and refer business
to those people they know, like and trust. That's it.

~*~  If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

~*~  If all mankind were of one opinion, and only one person were of the
contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing
that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in
silencing mankind.
   --John Stuart Mill

~*~  "Don't spend so much time earning your salt that you forget your sugar!"

"Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you
  do." -- George F. Burns

~*~  "Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person 
will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual 
satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."  B. C. Forbes

~*~  "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead 
of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our 
today."
Stewart B. Johnson

~*~  "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J Kaiser

~*~  "An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the 
knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way 
that leads to collective organizational success."  Stephen R. Covey

~*~  "If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get
people better than you are. Always remember that you often find
outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
  Soichiro Honda

~*~  "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for
themselves."
Ray Kroc

~*~  "Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is 
a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole 
organization compromises."
Charles Knight

~*~  In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good
we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Flora Edwards

~*~
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship;
It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one,
When they discover that someone else believes in them
And is willing to trust them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

~*~  As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and 
the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an 
infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; 
hopeless, we are lost forever.

~*~  Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with 
what you have.
Doris Mortman

~*~  The past and the future are great places to visit, but you
don't want to live there.
Tom Payne
"Quotes for a Changing Workplace"

~*~  Two great talkers will not travel far together.
  Spanish Proverb

~*~  To entertain some people all you have to do is listen.
Bernard Edinger

~*~  "Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my
company be if everyone in it was just like me?'"
Brian Tracy

~*~  You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West (1893-1980)

~*~  Use soft words and hard arguments.
           -- English Proverb

~*~  If you have an important point to make, don't try
      to be subtle or clever.  Use a pile driver.  Hit
      the point once.  Then come back and hit it again.
      Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.
           Winston Churchill

~*~  It's important that people should know what you
      stand for.  It's equally important that they know
      what you won't stand for.
Mary H. Waldrip

~*~  Be who you are and say what you feel because those who
matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

~*~   "When I was 14, I couldn't believe how ignorant my father was.
By the time I turned 21 I was astounded at how much the old man
had learned in just seven years."
Mark Twain

~*~*~*~  May today be better than yesterday, but, not as good as tomorrow.