The Entrepreneur

"They cast aside their assurance for a 40-hour week;
they leave the safe cover of tenure and security...
and charge across the perilous fields of change and opportunity.
If they succeed, their profits will not come
from what they take from their fellow citizens,
but from the value they freely place
on the gift of their imagination."

~George Gilder

Victory

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out

how the strong man stubles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,

who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again,

because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,

but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,

who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best,

knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst,

if he fails at least he fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls

who know neither victory nor defeat."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Courage

"Courage is the door

that can only be opened

from the inside"

~ Terry Neil

Will

"The difference between a successful person

 and others is not a lack of strength,

not a lack of knowledge,

but rather a lack of will." 

                                                  ~ Vince Lombardi

Resolve

RESOLVE TO SUCCEED

The greatest discovery

is that NOTHING

is impossible

Cynics do not....

Cynics do not contribute

Skeptics do not create

Doubters do not achieve

~Gordon B Hinkley

Patience

Patience with God is Faith

Patience with Self is Hope

Patience with Others is Love

Be The Best of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub by the side of the rill
If you can't be a bush be a bit of grass, and some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskiek, then just be a bass, but the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be the crew,
There's something for all of us here, There's big work to do.
And the task we must do is the near, if you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star; it isn't by the size that you win or fail,
Be the best of whatever you are!

~Douglas Mallech

Today

Yesterday is but a dream,

and tomorrow is only a vision,

but Today well lived makes every yesterday

a dream of happiness and

every tomorrow, a vision of hope.

Look there for to Today.

Adveristy

ADVERSITY is the first path to truth.
  ~George Gordon Byron

Value

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

What we attain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly;

it is adversity that gives everything its value." 

                                                                                                                       ~Thomas Payne

Refuse to quit

"Effort only fully releases it's reward after a person refuses to quit." 
-Napoleon Hill

Belief

"The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible."
-- Rich Devos

Things that matter most

Things that matter most
must never be at the mercy
of the things that matter least.
~Van Goethe

Impact of Attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the facts.


It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.


The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our pasts, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.


I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you - we are in charge of our attitude.


- Charles Swindoll

Our Attitude / Life's Attitude

It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude towards us.
- Earl Nightingale

May You Always

May you always walk in sunshine

Slumber warm when night winds blow

May you always live with laughter

For a smile becomes you so

May good fortune find your doorway

May the bluebird sing your song

May no trouble travel your way

May worry not stay too long

May your heartaches be forgotten

May no tears be spilled

And may your cup of kindness forever be filled

May you always be a dreamer

May your wildest dream come true

May you find someone to love

As much as I love you

moment of decision...

In any moment of decision,
the BEST THING you can do
is the RIGHT THING;
the next best thing
is the WRONG THING;
and the worst thing you can do
is NOTHING.

Theodore Roosevelt

A Smile

A smile costs nothing, but gives much.

It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who gave.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it.

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business, and is the countersign of friendship.

It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature's best antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.

Some people are too tired to give you a smile.

Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile as much as he who has no more to give.

21 Suggestions for Success

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will dtermine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistece, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal
15. Be honest
16. Be a self-starter
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your mom proud.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I Am an Eagle

I am an eagle; I live for the challenge

Created by visions that reach to the sky.

From high in the heavens I beckon,

"Come and join me."

There's so little difference between you and I,

For all those who see me and all who believe in me

Share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

Come onward and upward and foward together.

Fly over the mountains and up to the stars.

Reach for the heavens and hope for the future.

Be all that you can be and more than you are.

Inspiration

"If there is righteousness in the heart

there will be beauty in the character.

If there is beauty in the character

there will be harmony in the home.

If there is harmony in the home

there will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation

there will be peace in the world.

~Old Chinese Proverb

I AM ONLY ONE

I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I ought to do; and what I ought to do
By the grace of God, I will do.

Edward Everett Hale

Lips and Slips

If your lips can keep from slips,

Five things observe with care:

To whom you speak;

Of whom you speak;

And how, and when, and where.

Edward Norris

we call success

Success is speaking words of praise,
In cheering other people's ways,
In doing just the best you can
With every task and every plan.
It's silence when your speech would hurt,
Politeness when your neighbor's curt.
It's deafness when scandal flows,
And sympothy with other's woes.
It's loyalty when duty calls,
It's courage when disaster falls.
It's found in laughter and in song.
It's in the silent time of prayer,
In happiness and in despair.
In all of life and nothing less,
We find the thing we call success.

Two Kinds of People

There are two kinds of people on earth today,

Just two kinds, no more I say.

Not the bad and the good,

For it's well understood,

That the good are half bad,

And the bad are half good.

Not the rich and the poor,

For to know a man's wealth

You must first know the state

of his conscience and health.

Not the haughty and meek,

For in life's little span,

Who puts on airs is not counted a man.

Not the happy and sad,

For the swift flying years

Bring each man his laughter,

And each man his tears.

No the two kinds of people on earth I mean,

Are the people who lift

And the people who lean.

Wherever you go you'll find the world's masses

Are always divided into just these two classes.

And oddly enough, you'll find too, I ween,

There's only one lifter,

To twenty who lean.