“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” —Herman Cain
“Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.” —Alex Haley
“Create a set of great personal values and surround yourself with the right people that can form your support system. Have an optimistic spirit and develop a strong purpose that you completely believe in and everything you can imagine is possible, for you.” —Andrew Horton
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose to be grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of lack falls away and we experience heaven on Earth.” —Sarah Ban Breathnach
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar
“There are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” —John Richardson
“Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” —Marilyn vos Savan
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” —Nelson Mandela
“View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential.” —Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
“When we feel stuck, going nowhere – even starting to slip backward – we may actually be backing up to get a running start.” —Dan Millman
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny.” —Maxwell Maltz
“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” —Dan Millman
“Money – like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself – is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.” —Dr. Wayne Dyer
“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.” —Miguel de Cervantes
“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision.” —Howard Schultz
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo Buonarroti
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, they make them.” —George Bernard Shaw
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
“When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” —Joseph Campbell
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.” —Jim Rohn
“Money like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.” —Dr. Wayne Dyer
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill
“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.” —Thomas Robert Gaines
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” —Maureen Dowd
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” —Henry Ford
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.” —Robyn Davidson
“Whether you be man or woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” –James Lane Allen
“If successful people have one common trait, it’s an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they’re driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.” —Mike Zimmerman
“Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” —James Buckham
“If you have made mistakes there is always another chance for you… you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” —Mary Pickford
“You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.” —Phillip C. McGraw
“You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.” —Les Brown
“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them.” —-William F. Halsey
“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.” —Adam Gordon
“It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it’s because we do not dare that they are difficult.” —Seneca
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill
“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” —F. P. Jones
“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” —Robert Service
“Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.” —Japanese proverb
“Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, ‘Press on,’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” —Calvin Coolidge (President USA)
“Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” —Frank A. Clark
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs – even though checkered by failure – than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.”
The Dilemma…
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before a crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrows, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or love.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave – he has forfeited his freedom.
Only a person who takes risks is FREE