"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
Ida Scott Taylor
1820-1915, Author
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Edison
1847-1931, Inventor and Entrepreneur
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
Margot Fonteyn
1919-1991, Classical Ballet Dancer
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."
Jim Rohn"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
Confucius"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you."
Henry Ward Beecher"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
Kathleen Norris
1880-1966, Novelist
"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"Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously."
Og Mandino"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
Jim Rohn
1930-2009, Author and Speaker
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
Helen Keller"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."
Muhammad Ali"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."
William Arthur Ward
1921-1994, Writer
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work."
Thomas Watson
1874-1956, Founder of IBM
"I've always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other."
Ronald Reagan"The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another, is in some way, to make that person's life a little bit better to live."
John Assaraf
