Inspirations - Thursday, January 1, 2015

We pray that during 2015 you will find peace, comfort and safety; that your personal and professional life will be astounding, amazing, and memorable; that you will pay forward what you can, and receive what you need; that you will make new friends and forgive old enemies.

 HAPPY  2015!

Henry & Dianne Ford

www.successisyou.org

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving
1783-1859, Author, Biographer, and Historian

Inspirations - Monday, December 29, 2014

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1869-1948, Led India to Independence

Inspirations - Friday, December 26, 2014

There's no need to wait for the bad things to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

Kris Carr, Author

Inspirations - Thursday, December 25, 2014

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 24, 2014

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca
Businessman and Author
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Inspirations - Tuesday, December 23, 2014

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living.

Joseph Campbell
1904-1987, Writer and Lecturer

Inspirations - Monday, Dec. 22, 2014

Mt. Zion of Oakwood Village - Sunday 12-21-2014 Early Service
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Inspirations - Monday 12-22-2014 Mt. Zion of Oakwood Village (Praise Dancing & Christmas Speeches)

Mt. Zion of Oakwood Village - Sunday 12-21-2014 Early Service
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_Youth Praise Dancing Below:
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Inspirations - Friday, December 19, 2014

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the time that you outdid and defeated them.

Harold Kushner
Rabbi and Author

Inspirations - Thursday, December 18, 2014

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.

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

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 17, 2014

So it is, life is actually made up of our choices. We are the sum total of them, and if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success.

Delma Neeley

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 16, 2014

When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

Estee Lauder
1906-2004, Entrepreneur

Inspirations - Monday, December 15, 2014

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maxwell Maltz
1899-1975, Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

Inspirations - Friday, December 12, 2014

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1869-1948, Led India to Independence

Inspirations - Thursday, December 11, 2014

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 10, 2014

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn
1930-2009, Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

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

Inspirations - Monday, Dec. 8, 2014

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein
Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Friday, December 5, 2014

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.

Charlie Chaplin
1889-1977, Comic Actor

Inspirations - Thursday, December 4, 2014

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey
1911-1978, Politician

Inspirations - Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1934-2002, Journalist and Essayist

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The only people you should get even with are those who have helped you.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author

Inspirations - Monday, December 1, 2014

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, Author

Inspirations - Friday, November 28, 2014

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, Novelist, Playwright and Poet

Inspirations - Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014

As much as possible, be in the physical or mental presence of those people that encourage you to follow your dreams; because we "become" our closest associates, our most read books, our most dominant expressions, and those thoughts that wake us up early and keep us up late.

Henry Ford, Author-Speaker-Consultant

Inspirations - Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014

What do you get when you combine Domestic Violence Survivor Laura Cowen and Popular News Anchor Danita Harris?  You get HOPE and INSPIRATION!

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Inspirations - Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

Nathanael Emmons
1745-1840, Theologian

Inspirations - Monday, Nov. 24, 2014

The "graveyard" is filled with the remains of organizations that believed they would change the world, without they themselves changing. 

Henry Ford, Author-Speaker-Consultant 

Inspirations - Friday, November 21, 2014

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Wilma Rudolph
1940-1994, Olympic Gold Medalist

Inspirations - Thursday, November 20, 2014

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, Educator and Author

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Just trust that everything is unfolding the way it is supposed to. Don't resist. Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.

Sonia Ricotti
#1 Bestselling Author of Unsinkable:
How to Bounce Back Quickly When Life Knocks You Down

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Never give up. Never ever give up. Why? Because just when you are about to give up is when things are about to turn around in a grand way. Hold on. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.

Sonia Ricotti,
#1 Bestselling Author of Unsinkable:
How to Bounce Back Quickly When Life Knocks You Down

Inspirations - Monday, November 17, 2014

With Concern and Prayer for all the victims of Domestic Violence 

“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”

- Nina Simone -

Inspirations - Friday, November 14, 2014

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers
Psychologist and Television Personality

Inspirations - Thursday, November 13, 2014

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, Author and Syndicated Radio Personality

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 12, 2014

When we set out to do the best we can do, it is inevitable that great opportunity finds us because we are doing what truly makes us happy. We're in alignment and ready for the opportunities that life puts in our path.

Josh Hinds
Author of It's Your Life, LIVE BIG!

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 11, 2014

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out.

Dr. Myles Munroe

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Inspirations - Monday, November 10, 2014

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Friday, November 7, 2014

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Viktor E. Frankl - 1905-1997
Holocaust Survivor and Author of Man's Search for Meaning

Inspirations - Thursday, November 6, 2014

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about you. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of them.

Michael le Boeuf
Speaker and Author

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Parents can only give good advice, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank
1929-1945, Writer

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

Andrew Vachss

Inspirations - Monday, November 3, 2014

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Friday, October 31, 2014

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland
Poet, Writer and Historian

Inspirations - Thursday, October 30, 2014

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand.  That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.    

William Faulkner (1897-1962) American Writer

Inspirations - Wednesday, October 29, 2014

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.

Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

Inspirations - Tuesday, October 28, 2014

I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.

Arthur Warwick

Inspirations - Monday, October 27, 2014

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

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

Inspirations - Friday, October 24, 2014

Personal power is a gift that often goes unopened.

DeLores Pressley
Motivational Speaker
Personal Power & Confidence Coach
http://www.borntobeup.com/