Success

Dont shoot for something unattainable completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
- Michael Johnson

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

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

- Aristotle

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
- Michael Johnson

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. - Traditional Proverb If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- Anna Quindlen

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you. - Rodney Dangerfield You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
- Michael Johnson

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart. - Christy Borgeld Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

- Emily Dickinson

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
- Michael Johnson

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

- Gerry Spence

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road. - Yiddish Proverb Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

- Michael Johnson

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

- Michel Montaigne, sixteenth-century French essayist

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.
- Michael Johnson

Friends
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
- Afghan Proverb

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

- African Proverb

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is not born of words alone.

- Armenian Proverb

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
- Assyrian Proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

- Czech Proverb

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

- Gabonese Proverb

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts Mumford

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacredthat of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

- Russian Proverb

The time to make friends is before you need them.

- Traditional Proverb

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

- Egyptian Proverb

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
- Michael Johnson

Courage and Risk-Taking

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stopto look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon Take a risk and you will get a reward, although it may not be a medal

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

- Anonymous

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- Anonymous

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 H. White

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. Henry Drummond
Firefighters, policemen, they all risk their lives every day. Won't you risk something once and a while?

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

- Anonymous

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
- Wayne Gretzky

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

- Anonymous

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
- Molly McDonald

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of courage is also full of faith

- Cicero

Self-Improvement
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
- Louis L. Mann

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
- William George Jordan

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

- David O. McKay

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

- L. A. Rouchefolicauld

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- David O. McKay

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

- Anonymous

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.

- Anonymous

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

- Anonymous

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Anonymous

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
- Anonymous

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
- Charles Reade

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
- Anonymous

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. - Marcus Aurelius That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again. - By Michael Johnson

God, Spirituality & Religion

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 (see also verses 9 -12)

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
- Mark 11:22-24

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey

All consumed are their imperfections, Doubts are dispelled, their senses mastered, Their every action is wed to the welfare of their fellow creatures: Such are the seers who enter Brahman* and know Nirvana*.
- Bhagavad Gita, chapter 5

*(Brahman may be translated as Spirit and Nirvana as the highest state of spiritual being) [God says], do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10 (New International Version)

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde, author For I am mindful of the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. You call upon me and come and pray to me, and I heed you. You seek Me and find Me: Now you seek Me with all your heart and I am at hand for you, says the Lord...
- Jeremiah 29:11-14a; Matthew 7:7

If you keep sincerely asking for what's best, God will give you a very good chance to achieve it - even if you don't believe in God!
- Bill Blackman

God will always open another door for you

If you fear God, you won't fear humans.

- Albanian Proverb

A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle. - Latin Proverb We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - Dalai Lama You have to believe in gods to see them.
- Hopi Indian Proverb

Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God.

- Malagasy Proverb

He who doesn't speak will get no help from God.

- Mexican Proverb

I believe in God but Id much rather live with people who care about each other than those who only care about God or heaven. - Bill Blackman I will cause you to walk in the straight way... I will open to you the gates of righteousness.. For whoever finds Me, finds life
- Psalm 118:19; Proverbs. 8: 35-6

Children and Family

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother?
- Christy Borgeld

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
- Virginia Satir

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
- Brigham Young

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
- Kim Rohn

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
- Christy Borgeld

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
- Terence

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
- David Bly

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

- Harold Hulbert

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
- Christy Borgeld

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
- Christy Borgeld

Children are the reward of life.

- Congolese Proverb

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

- Hebrew Proverb

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
- Christy Borgeld

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

- African Proverb

Adults are dead children

- Michael Brown

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction - Anne Sullivan Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
- Lydia Maria Child

Fulfillment and Happiness

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

- Madame De Maintenon

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
- Dick Gregory

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
- Anonymous

Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
- Indian Proverb

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

- Chinese Proverb

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

- Hasidic Proverb

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

- Spanish Proverb

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
- Berthold Auerbach

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
- Leo Rosten, American teacher and humorist

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

- Burton Hills

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret B. Runbeck

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- Anonymous

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
- Ray Lyman Wilbur

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers

May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a state of activity.

- Aristotle

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

- Anonymous

Strength
There is no strength without unity. - Irish Proverb A chain is as strong as its weakest link. - Danish Proverb A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
- Anonymous

The crocodile is only strong in the water. - Angolan Proverb A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars. - Canary Island Proverb

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