“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
- Max Lerner
“Spirit … has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.”
- Unknown
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
- Liane Cardes
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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
Max Depree
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
Sir James M. Barrie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person […]
“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life’s challenges vigorously. Don’t numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” — J. Donald Walters
“Challenges […]
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
-Milan Kundera
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability […]
When you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still like you.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the […]
Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass […]
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mohandas Gandhi
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” -Richard Bach
“To do exactly the opposite is also a form of imitation.” -Lichtenberg
“Failure is only an opportunity to begin more intelligently.” -Henry Ford
“Success is blocked by concentrating on […]
A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, do what he can to change things there.
Paule Marshall
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove […]
“When you make them mad, it’s twelve-to-one they’ll leave or be leery. It takes 12 positive impressions to overcome one negative one. What do you do to recover from an angry customer?” — Jeffrey Gitomer
“Whatever your job title, you are in the business of customer satisfaction. Who is your customer?” — Brian Tracy
“If you make […]
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last […]
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, […]
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. ~Author Unknown
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi
The nice thing about teamwork is that you […]
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
Though no one can go back […]
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.
~good advice quote by Robb Sagendorph
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
~advice by Faith Whittlesey
Excuse me, then! you know […]
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
~inspirational quote on Exercise by Thomas de Quincey
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, […]