Obstacle and Opportunity

“What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity?

Our attitude toward it.

Every opportunity has a difficulty,

and every difficulty has an opportunity!”

J. Sidlow Baxter

Only You

‎"Only you can hold yourself back,

only you can stand in your own way.

Only you can help yourself."

Mikhail Strabo

Accept Everything

“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.

You are you and that is the beginning and the end -

no apologies, no regrets.”

Henry Kissinger

Mistakes of Others

‎"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.

You won't have time to make them all yourself."

Alfred Sheinwold

Every Change

"Every change is a challenge to become who we really are."

Marianne Williamson

How You Think About A Problem

“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself.

So always think positively.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Think Positively and Masterfully

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

Swami Vivekananda

Excellence

“Excellence is not a skill.

It is an attitude.”

Ralph Marston

Face Up to Change

‎"Not everything that is faced can be changed,

but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

How Big a Man?

“The size of your accomplishments,

the quality of your achievement,

will depend very largely on

how big a man you see in yourself,

what sort of image you get of your possible self,

yourself at your best.”

Orison Swett Marden

Perseverance and Obstinacy

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy

is that one often comes from a strong will,

and the other from a strong won't.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Hard Work

‎"Hard work spotlights the character of people:

some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses,

and some don't turn up at all!"

Sam Ewing

Trust Yourself

“Trust yourself.

Create the kind of self

that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Make the most of yourself

by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility

into flames of achievement.”

Golda Meir

Go With the Flow

‎"Do not struggle.

Go with the flow of things,

and you will find yourself at one

with the mysterious unity of the universe."

Chuang Tzu

Untie the Ribbons

“Each day comes bearing its own gifts.

Untie the ribbons.”

Ruth Ann Schabacker

Comfort and Luxury

‎"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,

when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Charles Kingsley

A Single Footstep

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

Henry David Thoreau

Doubt

"If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow.

Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow.

Doubt and action are incompatible."

John Kanary

In The End

"In the end,

we will remember not the words of our enemies,

but the silence of our friends"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stress

“Stress is the tax you pay for not taking

complete responsibility for your life.”

Dr. Barnet Meltzer

Dream and Hope

‎"It is difficult to say what is impossible,

for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today

and the reality of tomorrow."

Robert H. Goddard

Everything in Life

"You can have everything in life that you want

if you will just help enough other people

to get what they want.”

Zig Ziglar

Life and Imagination

“Whatever you create in your life

you must first create in your imagination.”

Tycho Photiou

Perseverance and Confidence

‎"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

Marie Curie

Faults

‎"Human faults are like garden weeds.

They grow without cultivation

and soon take over the place if they aren’t thinned out."

Napoleon Hill

Curiosity and Imagination

Treasure your curiosity and nurture your imagination.

Have confidence in yourself.

Do not let others put limits on you.

Dare to imagine the unimaginable.

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Times of Change

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth,

while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped

to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer

Opportunity

‎"If you wait for opportunities to occur,

you will be one of the crowd."

Edward de Bono

Live and Learn

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi

The Past Cannot be Changed

‎"The past is over and done and cannot be changed.

This is the only moment we can experience."

Louise Hay

Roots of True Achievement

“The roots of true achievement

lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”

Harold Taylor

Where Your Future Lies

“Nobody gets to live life backward.

Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”

Ann Landers

Di It Now

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now.

The conditions are always impossible.”

Doris Lessing

Love is an Element

“Love is an element, which though physically unseen, is as real as air or water. It is an active, living, moving force. It moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.”
Prentice Mulford

Supreme Power

“There is a supreme power and ruling force, which pervades and rules the boundless Universe.
You are a part of this power.”
Prentice Mulford

Where You Are

“People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be –

whether they will admit that or not.”
Earl Nightingale

Closer to a Better Tomorrow

“Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”
Doug Firebaugh

Faith

“Faith is taking the first step when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Origin in the Mind

“Everything has it’s origin in the mind, and that which you seek outwardly, you already possess. No one can think a thought in the future. Your thoughts of a thing constitutes it’s origin.”
Genevieve Behrend

Unique Essence and Spirit

“You have a unique essence and spirit that no one else has.
Your contribution in this world is priceless and beyond measure.”
Hemal Radia

Superior to Circumstance

“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that

something inside them was superior to circumstance.”

Bruce Barton

No One Else to Blame

"We are each responsible for our own lives, which we create with our thoughts, words and deeds. When things go wrong, we have no one to blame but ourselves. No one else can fix our problems for us; we must fix them ourselves, not by concentration on the problems, but by focusing on the solutions."

Anne Child

Money

“Thoughts about money dominate our culture and they can be pleasant or disturbing. Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many things that make you unhappy. Money will always be an important part of your life, whether you like it or not. Money determines, in most instances, the quality of your life because money allows you freedom. You can either suffer the miseries of financial problems, or you can use your power as a Deliberate Creator to solve these problems.”
Dr. Robert Anthony

Full of Life

“Find that which is full of life, vibrant and joyful;

it is there you will realize happiness.”

Kenneth D Foster

Responsibility and Happiness

“We are each responsible for the feelings we experience, the goals we achieve, the actions we take. Happiness does not depend on anything outside of ourselves, it is a self - determined proposition. We can easily change our thinking, we can learn to see things differently. When we have a problem we focus on fixing it & changing the way we think about it.”
Annie Ashdown

The Best You Can Imagine

“Your entire life is what you have imagined it to be. Everything you have or don’t have, every situation and circumstance of your life is what you have imagined it to be. The problem is that many people imagine the worst! They’re turning the most wonderful tool against themselves. Instead of imagining the best, many people are in fear and imagine all the things that can go wrong. And as surely as they keep imagining and feeling those things, they happen. Whatever you give, you receive. Feel and imagine the best and the highest you can in every area of your life, because the best you can imagine is a “piece of cake” for the force of love!”

Rhonda Byrne

In Memory of Steve Jobs

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

Make Space

"Once we begin to learn to accept the goodness of the Universe,

we naturally want to share it as well,

realizing that as we give out of our energy,

we make space for more to flow into us."

Shakti Gawain

We Get to Choose

"With everything that has happened to us,

we can either feel sorry for ourselves

or treat what has happened to us as a gift.

Everything is either an opportunity to grow

or an obstacle to keep us from growing.

We get to choose."

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Unsuccessful and Successful People

“Unsuccessful people think "either/or"; Successful people think "both."
You can be kind, generous, loving, spiritual, balanced,

do work you love, AND be really, really rich!”
T Harv Ecke

Limited by Your Dreams

“What you want to do, and what you can do,

is limited only by what you can dream.”

Mike Melville

Willingness to be Afraid

"Courage is the willingness to be afraid

and yet act anyway."

Robert Anthony

Weak People

“People too weak to follow their own dreams

will always find a way to discourage yours.”

Steven Goggin

World Habit

“The world has the habit of making room for the man

whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

Napoleon Hill