"You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind.  You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind." - Zig Ziglar

"Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals." - Bob Proctor

"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day." - Alan Lakein

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

"The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing." - Benjamin Franklin

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - H. Jackson Brown

"Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully." - Mason Cooley

"An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it." - Roy Ash

"He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat." - Robert Estabrook

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 will not forget you." - William Arthur Ward

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." - Mehran Amini

"Action is the real measure of intelligence." - Napoleon Hill

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." - Carl Jung

"We must listen before we can learn.

  We must learn before we can prepare. 

  We must prepare before we can serve.

  We must serve before we can lead." -  William Arthur

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." - Denis Waitley

"When it seems impossible, when it seems like nothing is going to work, you're usually just a few  millimeters away from making it happen." - Anthony Robbins

"Goals that are not written down are just wishes." - Mehran Amini

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

"Let us never negotiate out of fear; but let us never fear to negotiate." - John F. Kennedy

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." - Bernard Baruch

"Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve." - Tom Peters

"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going." - Mehran Amini

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals." - Brian Tracy

"A job is really a short-term solution to a long-term problem." - Robert Kiyosaki

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." - Henry Ford

"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!" - Richard Exely

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." - Isaac Newton

"Every choice you make has an end result." - Zig Ziglar

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace." - Ernie Banks

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.  The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing." - Michael E. Gerber

"That which does not kill us will only make us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ... as in being able to remake ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi

"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." - Thomas Dreier

"Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible." - Hunt Greene

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together." - Napoleon Hill

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts." - Sren Kierkegaard

"People of character do the right thing, not because they  think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." - Michael Josephson

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour." - Jim Rohn

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - Edward Stanley

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." - Sloan Wilson

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." - Pat Riley

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

"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1." - Warren Buffett

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money, it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." - Tony Robbins

"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." - Ellen Glasgow

"Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured." - Dr. Michael Beckwith

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." - Napoleon Hill

"You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.” - Norman Cousins

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The trouble for most people is they don’t decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it." - Michael Masterson

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." -  John Quincy Adams

"The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill." - W. Clement Stone

"Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success; both theirs and yours." - T. Harv Eker

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself." - Robert Collier

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin Roosevelt

"I can tell how much money you make by looking at how you respect your time." - Mike Litman

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." - Mary Lou Cook

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock

"The small person harms the more important in seeking what is less valuable, while the great person nurtures the parts of great importance." - Mencius

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright

"Nothing of great value in this life comes easily." - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Author unknown

"Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are." - James W. Frick

"The greatest defenition for concentration I ever heard is: wherever you are, be there!" - Jim Rohn

"Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else." - Peter F. Drucker

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." - Mildred Barthel

"Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'." - Jim Rohn

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves." - Brian Tracy

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." - Anthony Robbins

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock

"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking." - James Allen

"It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time." - T. Harv Eker

"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes." - Thomas Edison

"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality." - Ralph Marston

"The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love." - Zig Ziglar

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Wayne Dyer

"There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles." - Stephen Covey

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." Mehran Amini

"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results." - Mark Victor Hansen

"Opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack." - Paul J. Meyer

"Put your future in good hands - your own." - Mark Victor Hansen

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have." - John D. Rockefeller

"Our definition of risk is allowing your financial destiny to be under somone else's control." - Sharon L. Lechter

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." - Angela Monet

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now." - Zig Ziglar

"I have failed over and over again - that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." - P. J. O'Rourke

"Do what you can with what you have where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know." - T. Harv Eker

"You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life." - John Addison

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun." - John D. Rockefeller

"Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time." - T. Harv Eker

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Mortimer Caplan

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?'." - Brian Tracy

"The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true." - James Allen

"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it." - Bunker Hunt

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Karol Darwin

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves." - Steven Covey

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting." - Brian Tracy

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up." - Thomas Alva Edison

"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals." - Robert Conklin

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver

"Select a few people to be particularly kind to today - those you were a little harsh with yesterday." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Make a decision to be succesful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor." - Brian Tracy

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." - Earl Nightingale

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough." - Christian Nestell Bovée

"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

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." - Thomas Dewar

"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." - Michael Josephson

"Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you." - Brian Tracy

"The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't." - Zig Ziglar

"The most effective way to manage change is to create it." - Peter Drucker

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually." - Stephen R. Covey

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. " - Brian Tracy

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much." - Erich Fromm

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... Self-discipline with all of them came first." - Harry Truman

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited." - Earl Nightingale

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"Discipline is remembering what you want." - David Campbell

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." - Theodore White

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do." - Michael Korda

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel

"You cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary." - Wallace D. Wattles

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley

"Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work." - David Sarnoff

"Success is like aiming for the moon. If ever you fail, you will find yourself in he company of stars. " Unknown

"Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others." - Unknown

"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." Dr.Maxwell Maltz

"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are." - Jim Rohn

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert H. Schuller

"Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment." - Sidney Poitier

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities." - Orison Swett Marden

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

"You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." - Chuck Yeager

"My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency...become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'" - Rudolph Giuliani

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now." - Zig Ziglar

"There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort." - Buzz Aldrin

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

"Every body in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions." - Dale Carnegie

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." - Oscar Wilde

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again." - Abraham Maslow

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become." - Ben Herbster

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures." - Bernard Baruch

"Although it is not possible to change your future overnight, it is possible to change your direction overnight" - Jim Rohn

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting." - E.E. Cummings

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it." - Debbi Fields

"If you have a positive thought your body actually goes into a positive vibration, you actually attract everything that resonates with that vibration." - John Assaraf

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability to overcome bad luck." - Channing Pollock

"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles M. Schulz

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous." - Henry Ford

"The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own." - Eric Hoffer

"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret." - Mary Kay Ash

"Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change." - Tom Clancy

Wealth Comes In Many Forms

My mentor, Bob Proctor, once said, "Don't cry over anything that won't cry over you." People will often create tremendous suffering for themselves just because they're in debt or have lost money. They'll generate intense feelings of anger, sadness, and fear, all of which are destructive and actually make it more difficult for them to regain the wealth they lost. Because they're upset, they may fight with their spouse over money or become severely depressed, not realizing that the power to create abundance for themselves once again is always available to them.

When you understand that money is simply one form of the tremendous force known as abundance or wealth, and that you can always receive riches from our ever-giving Universe, it becomes easier to let go of negative feelings about money and the destructive belief that material wealth is more important than other manifestations of abundance. Ask yourself how much money you would take in exchange for your eyesight and your abundant health. How much would I have to pay you for you to give up your relationship with the person you love the most? My guess is that your health, your eyesight, and the people you love are far too precious to trade for any amount of money.

If what you receive isn't money, open yourself up to it with gratitude and joy. Allow your creativity to flourish and you can discover ways to convert the abundance into the form you could most use right now.

Wisdom and knowledge are types of abundance that we often overlook. An antiques dealer I know often purchased items from homeless people who brought him furniture and other objects they'd found in the garbage.

He was always gracious and kind to them, and one day one of his regular sellers, who was a homeless man, noticed that the dealer had recently acquired a gold record by a celebrity.

"You have that underpriced," he said. "I used to work in the music business. I know."

The antiques dealer listened to what the man had to say and decided to take his advice and quadruple the price. A few days later, the dealer's dentist came in, got very excited about the gold record, and said, "Listen, I'd love to own that, but I don't have that much in cash to spend. How about if I do that dental work I recommended to you, in exchange for the gold record?"

The antiques dealer was able to pay for expensive dental procedures he needed and couldn't afford, because he valued the abundance that came to him from an unexpected source and converted it into something he could use.

Peggy McColl

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." - Napoleon Hill

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein

"Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company." - Napoleon Hill

"It matters not what a person is born, but (whom) they choose to be." - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

"It's not what you have, it's what you do with what you have that counts." - Unknown

"The Universe wants to give to you. The moment you begin to change your vibration to one of abundance, it will start sending you people, situations, and opportunities that reflect your inner state." Peggy McColl

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. " - Unknown

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success." - Brian Tracy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck

"A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow." - George S. Patton

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned." - Carol Burnett

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." - Stephen Covey

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"In life, as in chess, forethought wins." - Charles Buxton

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

"Just what can positive thinking do? To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do "anything." If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. As a ridiculous example, I'm a positive thinker, but I could never slam-dunk a basketball or perform major surgery - or even minor surgery - on anyone and expect that person to survive. Nate Newton, the 300-plus pound lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, is positive, optimistic and outgoing but he'd be a complete failure as a jockey or a ballet dancer.

It's safe to say that positive thinking won't let you do "anything." However, it is even safer to say that positive thinking will let you do "everything" better than negative thinking will. Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome. It works this way. You can walk into a dark room, flip on the switch and immediately the room is lighted. Flipping the switch did not generate the electricity; it released the electricity which had been stored. Positive thinking works that way - it releases the abilities which you have.

The student who hasn't studied and prepared for the test won't be helped by "thinking positively." However, positive thinking will help the student who has studied and prepared by "releasing" the stored knowledge when the questions are asked. To express it in a different way, knowledge breeds confidence; confidence breeds enthusiasm; and enthusiasm is an important key to being and doing more with your life.

Buy the positive approach to life and I will SEE YOU AT THE TOP!" - Zig Ziglar

"It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going." - Brian Tracy

"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time." - Napoleon Hill

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire (Wolter)

One of the hardest things to take is one of the easiest things to give - criticism.

If you must criticize, try criticizing the fault instead of the person.

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue - disregard it; if it is unfair - don't let it irritate you; if it is ignorant - smile; if it is justified - learn from it.

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." - Unknown

"To earn more, you must learn more." - Brian Tracy

"You may not be able to control the situation, but you can always control your reaction." - Austin Mcgonigle

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

"I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever." - Bob Proctor

"My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline." - John Irving

"One of the lessons I've learned is that the quality of the answers that we get in life is truly determined by the quality of the questions we ask." - Paul Martinelli

"Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind." - Zig Ziglar

"I want to demonstrate by my life and my results, not my talk, not my wishes, but by my results." - Gerry Robert

"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you." - Cynthia Kersey

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." - Ezra Pound

"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference." - Luciano Pavarotti

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli

Attraction

Have you ever spent time wondering why many good people continually attract negative situations into their lives while others seem to attract nothing but beautiful situations into theirs. This concept contains power, possibility, and promise if you will use it.


You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life. There have always been small select groups of individuals who are aware of how to work in harmony with this natural law of the universe: The Law of Attraction.

This law clearly states you can only attract to you that which is in harmony with you. Everything in the universe vibrates. That is based on the Law of Vibration. That includes your mind and body. Look at your body through a microscope, it is a mass of energy that is moving and vibrating. Your mind controls the vibration you are in at any given moment. You control your mind by the thoughts you choose. No one can cause you to think something you do not want to think. This is where freedom comes in, this is also where the problem begins with most people. They permit what is happening around them to determine how they think. They have become the play-thing for outside forces.

Ninety percent of the population wish positive but think negative. Their negative thoughts puts them in a negative vibration which by law determines what is attracted into their lives. As a creative individual you will continually attract good things into your life by thinking positive thoughts and expecting the best life has to offer. You deserve it. Bob Proctor

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Altshuler

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneka

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." - William James

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosenfield of endeavor." - Vince Lombard

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." - Rita Mae Brown

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"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

"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits." - Napoleon Hill

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others." - Zig Ziglar

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day." - Og Mandino

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

"Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others." - Christian D. Larson

"Anything’s possible. You can be told you have a 90% chance or a 50% chance or a 1% chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight." - Lance Armstrong

"Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." - Wayne Dyer

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you never see the shadow." - Helen Keller

"The most essential factor is persistence- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm (passion) to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come." - James Whitcomb Riley

"Until you value yourself... you will not value your time; until you value your time... you will not do anything with it." - M.Scott Peck

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember- the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." - Zig Ziglar

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin

"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." - Rubel Shelly

"You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind." - Zig Ziglar

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome." - William James

"If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it." - Roger Babson

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end." - Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

"There are two kinds of failures: Those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." - Laurence Peter

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it." - William Feather

"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

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar

If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top." - Zig Ziglar

Never, never, never, never GIVE UP." - Winston Churchill

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." - Zig Ziglar

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything." - Abraham Lincoln

The Making Of A Memory

One can't predict when or where they will come from; those memories that stay with us a lifetime, and never fail to bring us warm fuzzy feelings.

My husband had just finished loading his car; made one lap back through the house and then into the kitchen. "I guess filling my thermos is all I have left to do, and then I'm off." Down the drain went the hot water that had been warming his thermos. With a very nostalgic look on his face he softly said, "When I filled this with water earlier, I thought of your mom. In fact, anytime I fill my thermos I think of her."

"Oh honey, that's so sweet. I know she's watching and listening right now with a big smile on her face," I responded as tears began to brim my eyelids.

"You know, I never fill my thermos that I don't think of her, and I always smile too." The tone in his voice was so tender as he spoke of my mother who is no longer with us.

Years ago we had been visiting my parents, and the morning we were leaving mother watched as Jerry began to fill his thermos. Being the "coffee drinker" in the family, he's always placed himself in charge of thermos duties. Mom then casually offered up a tidbit of advice. "Jerry, if you would fill your thermos with hot water and let it sit a while, your coffee would stay hot longer on your drive." The look on his face was priceless as her simple suggestion sunk in. Well of course it would! It only makes all the sense in the world! Who wouldn't know that? He dumped the small amount of coffee already in the thermos, and ran the tap until it was at its hottest; then refilled with piping hot water. After pouring himself a fresh cup of coffee, he sat down to enjoy a few more minutes with mom, and to discuss this unique new idea.

Words of wisdom from a loving mother-in-law made an impact that will never be forgotten. When spoken that morning, Jerry didn't realize he would always hear those words ringing in his ears, or that they would bring a smile to his face time and time again. And Mother would never have dreamed her words would be a treasured and everlasting memory in the heart of her son-in-law.

The "fondest, lasting memories" don't necessarily come from "major moments" in life...the making of a memory simply happens... - Kathleene S. Baker

Law Of Opposites

Have you ever paid any attention to the idea that there are "two sides to everything?" Think of how often you have heard that.

Look at your hand. It has a front and a back side. Your body has a right and a left side. The automobile or room you are in has an inside and an outside. You couldn't possibly have one without the other.

This is an orderly universe, of which you are a part. The whole universe is governed by laws.

If you have watched The Secret you heard me quote the father of the space program, the late Dr. Warner Von Braun who said the natural laws of the universe are so precise that we do not have any difficulty today building a space ship, sending a person to the moon and timing the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second.

The law I am referring to today is the Law of Polarity or the Law of Opposites.

If it is a long way up to the top of a building, it must be a long way down. If it is a mile from point A to point B, it must be a mile from point B to point A. They are not only opposite, they are equal and opposite.

Everything that happens in your life today will either appear negative or positive. Keep in mind whatever happens must have a positive side to it.

A large majority of the population seems to be mentally programmed to pay attention to the negative side of life and unfortunately, ignore the positive.

Make a decision right now that, regardless of what happens today, you are going to look for the positive aspect of what's happening. Remember... every cloud has a silver lining. Do this again tomorrow and the next day until it becomes a habit to see the positive in everything. You will feel better, you will be more productive, and you will have more friends. - Bob Proctor

"The simple step of writing down your ideal scene can lead you to discover the unfailing natural laws of manifestation." - Marc Allen (Author of The Greatest Secret of All)

"You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have." - Norman Vincent Peale

"You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end." - Sidney A. Friedman

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are." - Muhammad Ali

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

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." - Mary Tyler Moore

"When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy. - Marci Shimoff (Author of Happy for No Reason)

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world." - Dr. Joseph Edward Murphy

"Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring."- Red Aurbach

"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest." - Beatrix Potter

"Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." - Robert Heinlein

"Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still." - Linda Brakeall

"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable." - Roger L'Estrange

"A positive attitude is perhaps more important at home than anywhere else. As spouses and parents, one of our most vital roles is to help those we love feel good about themselves." - Keith Harrell

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true." - Richard Bach

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence." - Buddha

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." - Zig Ziglar

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." - Hermann Hesse

Enjoyment of life is not the presence of something outside ourselves; it is the absence of something within ourselves. Gloom is a state of inner blockage of your True Self; enjoyment is its release. Just as a balloon rises to greater heights by discarding weights, so do we ascend as we toss out negativities. - Vernon Howard From Psycho-Pictography

"Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do."

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities." - Charles "Tremendous" Jones

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan

"If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal." - Bob Proctor

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." - Peter Marshall

"I have never been a millionaire. But I have enjoyed a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a walk with a friend and a hug from a child. There are plenty of life's tiny delights for all of us." - Jack Anthony

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.


HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1- Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2- Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3- Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4- Enjoy the simple things.

5- Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6- The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7- Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8- Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9- Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10- Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

"We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win." - Joseph Ford Newton

"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there." - Robert Kiyosaki