Quotes Page 11
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self-defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.
When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.
Heroes are merely men who do extraordinary things during extraordinary times.
The beauty of tomorrow is that you have today to create it. - Timon Roussis
Remember to offer a smile, encouragement and hope to those you see on a daily basis. You never fully know what's going on in someone else's life, so be a positive role model, and always express hope.
Remember the losses for they will make you strong, and treasure the victories for they will make you smile.
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, to teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be, but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will effect the rest of you life in some profound way. And sometimes things happen to you that might seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without those small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless. Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from those moments everything that you possibly can for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people who you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in love, break free, and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself or it will be hard for others to believe in you. You can make your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it with no regrets. Most importantly, if you love someone tell them, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store. And learn a lesson in life each day you live as time keeps slipping into the future. - Excailbur yearbook 2000
Happiness lies for those who cry those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
The greatest battles of life are fought within the confines of the human soul. - David O. McKay
You can never forget the people who change your life. You become a different person, and everything you do is slightly altered by what they taught you. - Lyanna Porter
Perseverance is holding on when the rope is gone. Trust is not being afraid even when you are vulnerable.
Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau
I imagine one reason people cling so stubbornly to hate is because once the hate is gone, they are forced to deal with the pain. - James Baldwin
Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and are always asking for money; others are like the news with sad tales to tell everyday. Some are like that one channel, with the foreign language, because you don't understand a word of it but you watch and listen anyway; and then there are the ones like commercials: always changing, ever so annoying and only seem to be there when you are bored. But every once in a while you meet someone who's like a really good movie of the week or that TV show you hardly ever get to see anymore because you're so busy. The point is this: hold on to the friends that you care about and since you don't have a remote control to mute someone or just change the channel, choose your friends wisely.
Courage is giving up all you've ever known, and moving forward. - Sarah Ellsworth
Redemption is difficult and it takes a long time and there isn't always a goal in sight. If you make it easy, if you find the golden key, that's kind of a false hope. The thing about a hero is that even when it doesn't look like there's light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, just because that's who he is. - Joss Whedon
When we begin to help ourselves first, though selfish it may feel, then we can begin to help others. We must first try to heal ourselves in order to realize that we are much stronger than we give ourselves credit for. It is only when we lose part of ourselves it is that we realize what we had. And then sometimes it is too late but that teaches us not to dwell on the past rather to learn from the situation and not have any regrets. Although many say "think with your head and not the heart", I choose to not listen and just follow my heart. That way no matter what the outcome I know I was true to myself, the other and the situation. - Wendy Correa
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - Dr. David M. Burns
In the mist of darkness, light persists. In the mist of untruth, truth persists. In the mist of death, life persists. - Mahatma Gandhi
Be remembered as the fireball in the sky, not as a birthday candle.
Why do we have friends? Friends are special people that care for you; they feel for you. You tell friends about your life and they tell you theirs. Why do we have friends? They are there for you when you make a bad decision or maybe even a good one. You tell each other secrets, hopefully they won't tell, but some things are meant to be told. Why do we have friends? Not to disclude or ignore. But to be there whenever they need you. Even if leave they will always be your friends. Why do we have friends? We have friends for the best memories person could have, we have friends to live, to fight, to cry and to face reality. We all have friends, maybe we haven't found them yet or maybe you have. Who are your true friends?
When you leave the light that you know and step into the darkness of the unknown, you must find something solid upon which to stand or you must learn to fly.
Acceptance is looking reality in the eye and having the ability, courage, and discipline to say, "this is the way it is".
Acceptance and approval are different. There are certain circumstances, events, and people that we just have to accept or acknowledge as being the way it really is, before we can get over it and get on with it.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Failure, disappointments, and displeasure are a part of life. Accept it. Maybe you want to forget and pretend that the past really didn't happen or that this person in your life that causes you pain can and will change. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. The illusion that you have control over others or life is an illusion. You don't. You don't have control over what other people think, say or do. The only say or action you have any control over is yours.
Accident rules every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. - Snow Falling on Cedars
Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. - August B. Black
I wish for you...
Comfort on difficult days
Smiles when sadness intrudes
Rainbows to follow the clouds
Laughter to kiss your lips
Sunsets to warm your heart
Gentle hugs when your spirits sag
Friendships to brighten your being
Beauty for your eyes to see
Confidence for when you're in doubt
Faith so that you can believe
Courage to know yourself
Patience to accept the truth
And love to complete your life.
When it comes to matters of the heart, in my eyes, there is no greater act of courage than to be the one who kisses first and no greater fear than being the first to fall in love. - Duffi Finnegan
Without the darkness of the tunnel, the light at the end wouldn't seem so bright. - J.A. Davis
How can you have a beautiful ending without making beautiful mistakes?
A woman of genius makes no mistakes. Her errors are potholes of discovery. - Cassandra Zenzo Ncube
Life is a journey through the woods. There are many things to see and do and many paths one can embark on. One never knows what lies ahead, only what they've passed. Somewhere along the path, one may have taken a wrong turn or may have taken the right one. Every diverting path is a chance, a chance one must take in order to achieve the goal. - Jessica Miller
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. But if you spend all your time deciding and don't just reach in and grab one, you're never gonna get anything at all. - Kimberly Knight
Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
It's perfectly okay for me to be imperfect. This includes not being a perfect person. This means that it's okay that I have already made a lot of mistakes as a person. And that it's okay that I will make other mistakes in the future. What's not okay is for me to pretend that I am perfect and to thereby hide my mistakes from myself. Instead I will catch my mistakes with a smile rather that a kick and learn what they have to teach me. That way, I won't make the same mistakes too often, and I'll never be a perfect person, and that's ok, because my goal is excellence, not perfection. - Dr.Leo Buscalia
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there. - Venus Williams
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it going on. - Tyra Banks
As you journey through life, choose your destinations well, but do not hurry there. You will arrive soon enough. Wander back roads and forgotten paths, keeping your destinations in your heart like a fixed point of a compass. Seek out new voices, strange sights, and ideas foreign to your own. Such things are riches for the soul. And if, upon arrival, you find that your destination is not exactly as you had dreamed, do not be disappointed. Think of all you would have missed but for the journey there, and know that the true worth of your travels lies not in where you came to be at the journey's end, but in who you came to be along the way.
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation - 95 percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself. - Brian Tracy
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. - Norman Vincent Peale
You should look on the inside not on the out side. Judge by the soul not by the face. Look deeper there is something you don't see. Look harder and you will see the true person inside. You may find a friend in someone you don't know. Give them a chance before you shut them out. Don't judge a book by its cover
Always give a chance to another even when they are not like you. We cannot judge, we are not perfect give a chance to everyone. Look into their eyes you may find a friend. In someone you didn't know was alive
Popularity isn't everything.
The worst way we can take a good look at who we are, is by peering in a telescope through other people's eyes. -Erin Clark
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. - Jim Rohn
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals. - Paul Meyer
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. - Denis Waitley
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino
Give yourself something to work toward--constantly. - Mary Kay Ash
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear focused goals. - Brian Tracy
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. - Harvey Mackay
Never mind where you stand in the beginning of a race, all that counts is where you stand at the end of the race. - A. Datta
People come and go in your life and sometimes you don't even realize it. Every person who enters your life helps you in some way, whether it be to help you decide what you want on your cheeseburger, to help you find your match in love and life, or maybe they are that match in your life. The point is that when you cross those people, which you will every single day of your life, NOTICE THEM. They are the obstacles in life. Without them, life would be the same every single day. MY CHORE FOR ALL OF YOU: The next person to cross your path, be kind to, because not only are they the obstacles of your life, you're the obstacles of their life too. - Trisha Hall
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. -Benjamin Disraeli
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke. - W.J. Cameron
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require. - Jim Rohn
Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it. - Brian Tracy
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there. - Harvey Mackay
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. - Og Mandino
In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with. - 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
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want! - Zig Ziglar
Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one. - Harvey Mackay
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. - Jim Rohn
Three rules for success. Number 1. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. Number 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. Number 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding. --Lou Holtz
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. ---Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does. - Harvey Mackay
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. -Anthony Robbins
You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. - Zig Ziglar
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching. - Mark Twain
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation - 95 percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself. - Brian Tracy
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. - Harvey Mackay
'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything. 'I will try' has accomplished wonders. - George P.Burnham
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. - Norman Vincent Peale
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar
Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will" - Jim Rohn
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future. - Jim
Rohn
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do. - Brian Tracy
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. - Harvey Mackay
The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain
I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who `have' to dance. - George Balanchine
We can make a difference, each one of us. We are all unique with special gifts and talents. Embrace life, be the best you can be! Open your mind and heart to the coming changes and live your life positively, with hope and optimism.
No regrets. Regrets are a way of living in the past and the only people that live in the past are the ones afraid of the future. - Meg Gleason
Don't walk through life letting other people make decisions for you. Be your own self; make your own choices.- Ashley Black
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. - Brian Tracy
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. - Ann Landers
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. - Harvey Mackay
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash
I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. -- Vince Lombardi
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me. - Jim Rohn
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson
Decide what's right before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things. - Stephen Covey
Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas! - Josh S. Hinds
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended. - Jim Rohn
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them. - Harvey Mackay
Leadership is not a right - it's a responsibility. - John Maxwell
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. - Warren G. Bennis
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. - Thomas J. Watson
The leader acts as though everyone is watching even when no one is watching. - Brian Tracy
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back. - Harvey Mackay
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? - Jim Rohn
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. - Earl Nightingale
The word "no" is a great time saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time. - Brian Tracy
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. - Jim Rohn
As every thread of gold, so is every moment of time. - J. Mason
We always have time enough if we will but use it aright. - Goethe
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. - Melody Beattie
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. - John Holt
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes …just be an illusion. - Javan
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. - Nan Fairbother
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pine
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Hannah Moore
Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain…the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock. - Hazret Inayat Khan
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on. - Robert Frost
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourselves. - Andy Warhol
You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's fine. If they don't, that's their problem. - Sting
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin is serenely, and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your own nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
