God grant me the ability to change the things I can, the willingness to accept the things I cannot, and

the wisdom to know the difference, -Reinhold Niebuhr In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. -Robert Frost 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 bit 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 to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will NOT be sent to you. You have to WIN it. The man who knows HOW will always have a job. The man who also knows WHY will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but PRINCIPLES are few. The man who grasps PRINCIPLES can successfully select his own METHODS. The man who tries METHODS, ignoring PRINCIPLES, is sure to have trouble." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse tomorrow; only one thing endures character. -Horace Greeley

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit -Aristotle Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore-Dream-Discover -Mark Twain

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. -Anthony Robbins Four things (feelings) that influence our life (1) how you feel about the past: Carry as a burden or let it instruct you. (2) How you feel about the future. It is not easy to pay the price if you cant see the promise. (3) How you feel about other things and people (4) Big Biggy, How you feel about yourself. Understanding of self worth is the beginning of progress. - Jim Rohn "Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose." Grenville Kleiser Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Other: Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear)-Ambrose Redmoon Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. -Dennis Waitley When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. -Bernard Shaw 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 "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love and have fun in what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

-Thomas Henry Huxley Its not that Im so smart; its just that I stay with problems longer. (When you're going through hell, keep going) -Albert Einstein I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. -William A. Ward We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things -Jim Rohn When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. -Helen Keller Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein 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; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? Jim Rohn Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal. -Henry Ford "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."- Samuel Johnson The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck Anthony Robbins People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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, make them. Bernard Shaw If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. SENECA Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Zig Ziglar I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.- Confucius As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. -Lao-Tze What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. -John Ruskin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, youre still a rat. -Lily Tomlin "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!" - Henry Ford The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot The greatest success is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. -Vince Lombardi "The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do." - Dennis Waitley "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington "Peak performance in life isn't about succeeding all the time or even being happy all the time. It's often about compensating, adjusting, and doing the best you can with what you have right now." - Ken Ravizza "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." - Anthony Robbins

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson While I can run, I'll run; while I can walk, I'll walk; when I can only crawl, I'll crawl. But by the grace of God, I'll always be moving forward. - Abraham Lincoln Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.-Epictetus When God wants to send you a gift, He wraps it up in a problem. The bigger the problem He wraps it up in, the bigger the gift that it contains. - Norman Vincent Peale The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay "Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."-Mark Twain "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer Youve achieved success in your field when you dont know whether what youre doing is work or play.-Warren Beatty My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future. -Jim Rohn Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.-Jim Rohn We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. -Jim Rohn There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.-Ralph Waldo Emerson "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." Unknown

"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream." -Unknown I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I havelife itself." -Unknown This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. Unknown "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Unknown "It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin." Unknown "Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. "Unknown "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Unknown Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." Unknown "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. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing." Unknown "If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: We will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us." Unknown "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." Unknown "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!" Unknown From error to error one discovers the entire truth. Unknown A minute's success pays the failure of years. Unknown A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Unknown Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. Unknown "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." David Russell If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. Unknown

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all answers; it comes from being open to all questions. Unknown Life is a journey that is not meant to be made safely. I want to live my life in a way that when i get really old, i look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it. Unknown "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Unknown Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possibleUnknown We are shaped and fashioned by what [whom] we love. Unknown Action without Vision is a Daydream; Vision without Action is a Nightmare. Japanese Proverb Fortune favors the bold. Virgil Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. Unknown An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A battle is raging inside me ... it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The old man fixed the children with a firm stare. "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee replied: "The one you feed." Unknown

Your time is limited; dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs Dont ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive. Howard Thurman You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People cant do something themselves, they wanna tell you you cant do it. If you want something, go get it. Pursuit of Happyness I am not my memories. I am my dreams. -Terry Hostetler (Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success .BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure (Performance = (Knowledge + Skills)*Attitude) Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. Randy Pausch Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. Judy Garland As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie The world aint all sunshine and rainbows. Its a very mean and nasty place and I dont care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it aint about how hard ya hit. Its about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Thats how winning is done! Now if you know what youre worth then go out and get what youre worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you aint where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that aint you! Youre better than that! Rocky Balboa

The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. Lifes Little Instruction Book Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries. -Ralph Waldo Emerson To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis Smedes There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.- Winston Churchill Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. -Steve Jobs.