Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses." - Sarah Orne Jewett
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have." - Norman Vincent Peale
"You can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price". - Vince Lombard
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson
"To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." - Sugar Ray Robinson
"If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race." - Grand Heidrich
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible". - Bonaparte Napoleon
"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be." - Marcel Pagnol
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Francois-Marie Arouet
"I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep." - Greg Evans
"Another word for creativity is courage." - George Prince
"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there." - H. Stanley Judd
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have that to have things I am not able to appreciate." - Elbert Hubbard
"People who make decisions go to the top. Those who fail to make decisions go nowhere." - Bob Proctor
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this." - Henry Ford
"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find." - Wayne Dyer
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment." - Thomas Carlyle
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." - Oprah Winfrey
"Successful people make decisions quickly and change them slowly if and when at all." - Napoleon Hill
"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know." - Anthony Robbins
Living is Giving

Living is giving your best self away,
Living is helping someone every day;
Living is giving more than you get,
It’s treating an animal like a person, instead of a pet.
It’s helping the handicapped across the street,
It’s smiling at the new person at work that you meet;
It’s respect for all nations, color and creeds,
It’s sharing and caring for your neighbor’s needs
One of God’s greatest laws you can live and believe,
Is the more that you give, the more you’ll receive!
"You can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price." - Vince Lombardi

Thursday, November 12, 2009

"We can’t fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future’s all in our heads, fear must be a head thing." - Tom Payne

CHARACTER

“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...” - Stephen Covey

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” - John Wooden

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” - James D. Miles

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - John Wooden

“Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can’t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing” - Jim Rohn

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Keller
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help." - John F. Kennedy

Six Behaviors that Increase Self-Esteem by Denis Waitley

Following are six behaviors that increase self-esteem, enhance your self-confidence, and spur your motivation. You may recognize some of them as things you naturally do in your interactions with other people. But if you don’t, I suggest you motivate yourself to take some of these important steps immediately.

First, greet others with a smile and look them directly in the eye. A smile and direct eye contact convey confidence born of self-respect. In the same way, answer the phone pleasantly whether at work or at home, and when placing a call, give your name before asking to speak to the party you want to reach. Leading with your name underscores that a person with self-respect is making the call.

Second, always show real appreciation for a gift or complement. Don’t downplay or sidestep expressions of affection or honor from others. The ability to accept or receive is a universal mark of an individual with solid self-esteem.

Third, don’t brag. It’s almost a paradox that genuine modesty is actually part of the capacity to gracefully receive compliments. People who brag about their own exploits or demand special attention are simply trying to build themselves up in the eyes of others—and that’s because they don’t perceive themselves as already worthy of respect.

Fourth, don’t make your problems the centerpiece of your conversation. Talk positively about your life and the progress you’re trying to make. Be aware of any negative thinking, and take notice of how often you complain. When you hear yourself criticize someone—and this includes self-criticism—find a way to be helpful instead of critical.

Fifth, respond to difficult times or depressing moments by increasing your level of productive activity. When your self-esteem is being challenged, don’t sit around and fall victim to “paralysis by analysis.” The late Malcolm Forbes said, “Vehicles in motion use their generators to charge their own batteries. Unless you happen to be a golf cart, you can’t recharge your battery when you’re parked in the garage!”

Sixth, choose to see mistakes and rejections as opportunities to learn. View a failure as the conclusion of one performance, not the end of your entire career. Own up to your shortcomings, but refuse to see yourself as a failure. A failure may be something you have done—and it may even be something you’ll have to do again on the way to success—but a failure is definitely not something you are.

Even if you’re at a point where you’re feeling very negatively about yourself, be aware that you’re now ideally positioned to make rapid and dramatic improvement. A negative self-evaluation, if it’s honest and insightful, takes much more courage and character than the self-delusions that underlie arrogance and conceit. I’ve seen the truth of this proven many times in my work with athletes.

After an extremely poor performance, a team or an individual athlete often does much better the next time out, especially when the poor performance was so bad that there was simply no way to shirk responsibility for it. Disappointment, defeat, and even apparent failure are in no way permanent conditions unless we choose to make them so. On the contrary, these undeniably painful experiences can be the solid foundation on which to build future success.

- Denis Waitley
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image." - Nido Qubein

2. Your Achievement Quotes

RELATIONSHIPS

“Choose your relationships with care.” - Brian Tracy

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” - Anais Nin

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” - Stephen Levine

“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” - Leo Buscaglia

REPUTATION

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln

“The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples—do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings—don’t do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.” - Jim Rohn

“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” - Euripides

“Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.” - Michael Lapoce

RESOLVE

“I had the responsibility to show resolve. I had to show the American people the resolve of a Commander in Chief that was going to do whatever it took to win. No yielding. No equivocation.” - George W. Bush

“He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” - Victor Hugo

“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.” - Archimedes
"The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say to you!" - Zig Ziglar
"The core of your personality is your self-esteem—'how much you like yourself.' The more you like and respect yourself, the better you do at everything you attempt." - Brian Tracy

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month - get married.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.

Chinese Proverb
"There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become." - Orison Swett Marden

1- Your Achievement Quotes

RECOGNITION

“We can secure other people’s approval, if we do it right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it.” - Mark Twain

“Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.” - Brian Tracy

“When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.” - Samuel Goldwyn

“When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.” - Denis Waitley

REFERABILITY

“If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won’t even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know.” - Patricia Fripp

“Keep every promise made. To make the sale, some salespeople will promise everything. And then they don’t do what they promised. You’ll never get a referral that way. Under-promise so you can over-deliver. That’s how you ‘wow’ them and keep them happy.” - Tom Hopkins

“Does he or she know you, like you, and trust you? Does he want to see you succeed? Does she want to help you find new business? If so, then you have yourself a ‘Personal Walking Ambassador.’” - Bob Burg

“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.” - W. Edwards Deming

REFLECTION

“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.” - T.S. Eliot

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?” - Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.” - Thomas Fitzosborne

“Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.” - Jim Rohn
"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Motivational Quotes

"Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks." - Denis Waitley
"It doesn't take a million dollars to learn the difference between a bottle of fine wine and a Pepsi. Sophistication is a study, not an amount." - Jim Rohn
"Sophisticated people don't leave early. The man says, 'Yeah, but I want to beat the traffic.' Isn't that a great skill to have—beating the traffic?" - Jim Rohn
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All things are difficult before they are easy." - Thomas Fuller

Motivational Quotes: Motivational Quotes

"Sophistication is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures." - Jim Rohn

Motivational Quotes

17 Principles of Personal Achievement by Napoleon Hill

For most of his life, Napoleon Hill lived with the conviction that every failure carried with it the seed of equivalent advantage. Here are his 17 principles for extraordinary achievement.

Lesson 1: Definiteness of Purpose
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly through life.

Lesson 2: Mastermind Alliance
The Mastermind principle consists of an alliance of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common definite objective. Success does not come without the cooperation of others.

Lesson 3: Applied Faith
Faith is a state of mind through which your aims, desires, plans and purposes may be translated into their physical or financial equivalent.

Lesson 4: Going the Extra Mile
Going the extra mile is the action of rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid. When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play.

Lesson 5: Pleasing Personality
Personality is the sum total of one’s mental, spiritual and physical traits and habits that distinguish one from all others. It is the factor that determines whether one is liked or disliked by others.

Lesson 6: Personal Initiative
Personal initiative is the power that inspires the completion of that which one begins. It is the power that starts all action. No person is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own.

Lesson 7: Positive Mental Attitude
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Lesson 8: Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is faith in action. It is the intense emotion known as burning desire. It comes from within, although it radiates outwardly in the expression of one’s voice and countenance.

Lesson 9: Self-Discipline
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of thought. If you do not control your thoughts, you cannot control your needs. Self-discipline calls for a balancing of the emotions of your heart with the reasoning faculty of your head.

Lesson 10: Accurate Thinking
The power of thought is the most dangerous or the most beneficial power available to man, depending on how it is used.

Lesson 11: Controlled Attention
Controlled attention leads to mastery in any type of human endeavor, because it enables one to focus the powers of his mind upon the attainment of a definite objective and to keep it so directed at will.

Lesson 12: Teamwork
Teamwork is harmonious cooperation that is willing, voluntary and free. Whenever the spirit of teamwork is the dominating influence in business or industry, success is inevitable. Harmonious cooperation is a priceless asset that you can acquire in proportion to your giving.

Lesson 13: Adversity & Defeat
Individual success usually is in exact proportion of the scope of the defeat the individual has experienced and mastered. Many so-called failures represent only a temporary defeat that may prove to be a blessing in disguise.

Lesson 14: Creative Vision
Creative vision is developed by the free and fearless use of one’s imagination. It is not a miraculous quality with which one is gifted or is not gifted at birth.

Lesson 15: Health
Sound health begins with a sound health consciousness, just as financial success begins with a prosperity consciousness.

Lesson 16: Budgeting Time & Money
Time and money are precious resources, and few people striving for success ever believe they possess either one in excess.

Lesson 17: Habits
Developing and establishing positive habits leads to peace of mind, health and financial security. You are where you are because of your established habits and thoughts and deeds.

- Napoleon Hill
"Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day." - Jim Rohn