Doing the right thing

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

Oprah Winfrey

Not many words

"Abba Macarius taught his disciples not to use many words when they prayed; rather they should frequently stretch out their arms saying, 'Lord, as you know best and in the manner you will, have pity on me'; or when in distress, 'Help me.'"

Joseph Jungmann, Christian Prayer Through the Centuries, p. 31

Our decisions and our lives

"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."

Anthony Robbins

What you think about

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

Benjamin Disraeli

20 ways Obamacare will take away your freedom

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How to get results

"If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results."

Bob Proctor

The freedom of your mind

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Mahatma Gandhi

Thankfulness

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Development and goals

"Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal."

Bob Proctor

Plans and action

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action."

Napoleon Hill

Hard work and mastery

"If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful."

Michelangelo
1475-1564, Painter, Sculptor and Architect

Reaching for the stars

"Your goal should be out of reach, but not out of sight."

Anita DeFrantz
Olympic Rower

A true master

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."

Albert Einstein

How to save a life

Hunches

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Changing mistakes into success

"It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly, correct it, and learn from it. That literally turns a failure into a success. Success is on the far side of failure."

T.J. Watson
1874-1956, Founder if IBM

One chance to live

"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose."

Lance Armstrong

Looking fear in the face

"You gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which we think we cannot."

Eleanor Roosevelt

What we expect -- and what we get

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little."

Ben Sweetland

The most important half

"One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck."

Carl Zuckmeyer
1896-1977, Writer and Playwright

The best defense against bad things

"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."

Thomas W. Higginson
1823-1911, Minister, Abolitionist and Author