Inspirations - Thur., Nov. 1, 2012

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.  

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer

Inspirations - Wed., Oct. 31, 2012

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Harrison Ford

Inspirations - Fri., Oct. 26, 2012

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx - 1890-1977, Comedian and Film Star

Inspirations - Thur., Oct. 25, 2012

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell
Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Wed., Oct. 24, 2012

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me. 

Marjorie Holmes

Inspirations - Tue., Oct. 23, 2012

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Inspirations - Mon., Oct. 22, 2012

Given three requisites--means of existence, reasonable health, and an absorbing interest--those years beyond sixty can be the happiest and most satisfying of a lifetime.

Earnest Elmo Calkins

Inspirations - Fri., Oct. 19, 2012

Do what's right and try to get along with people, in that order.

Ezra Taft Benson

Inspirations - Thur., Oct. 18, 2012

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Inspirational Writer

Inspirations - Wed., Oct. 17, 2012

Inspirations - Wed., Oct. 17, 2012
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The first person you are accountable to is yourself. It's imperative that you know what your key values are, because they set the standards for how you will do business."

Marilyn Strong
Author of Getting Paid to Pay Attention
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Inspirations - Tue., Oct. 16, 2012

You've got to walk right into what you want and not look at what you don't want. Stay focused on the goal.

Calvin LeHew
From Flying High: A True Story of Shared Inspiration

Inspirations - Mon., Oct. 15, 2012

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we think others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Author of Simple Abundance
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Inspirations - Fri., Oct. 12, 2012

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

David J. Schwartz
Trainer and Author

Inspirations - Thur., Oct. 11, 2012

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich

Inspirations - Wed., Oct. 10, 2012

Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibility for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people, these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

George Lucas

Inspirations - Tue., Oct. 9, 2012

Inspirations - Tue., Oct. 9, 2012
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I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.' I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Anna Quindlen
Author and Journalist
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem
Writer and Journalist

Inspirations - Mon., Oct. 8, 2012

Inspirations - Mon., Oct. 8, 2012
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Many a man with no family tree has succeeded because he branched out for himself.

Leo Aikman
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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.

Marcia Wieder
Speaker and Author

Inspirations - Fri., Oct. 5, 2012

Inspirations - Fril., Oct. 5, 2012

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension.

Kathleen Tierney Andrus
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Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.

Michael Josephson
Law Professor and Speaker

Inspirations - Thur., Oct. 4, 2012

Inspirations - Thur., Oct. 4, 2012

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis
1913-2007, Psychologist

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True wisdom consists in tracing effects to their causes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Inspirations - Wed., Oct. 3, 2012

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

Richard Koch
Author of The 80/20 Principle

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn
1930-2009, Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Tue., Oct. 2, 2012

Inspirations - Tue., Oct. 2, 2012
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There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela
11th President of South Africa
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

George Eliot
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The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.

Thomas Carlyle