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Secrets of Success and the Pillars of Self-Mastery

Dear readers,
To day i thought of writing down the this which i feel they are Secrets of Success and the Pillars of Self-Mastery for every one these things i am getting through my friends. i will daily update you with new post in this category as parts. please give your comments, iam very glad to c your views about these things, Thanks in advance.

Throughout the day we all get inspiration and excellent ideas. Keep a set of cards (the size of business cards; available at most stationary stores) in your wallet along with a pencil to jot down these insights. When you get home, put the ideas in a central place such as a coil notepad and review them from time to time. As noted by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."


Always remember the key principle that the quality of your life is the quality of your communication. This means the way you communicate with others and, more importantly, the way you communicate with yourself. What you focus on is what you get. If you look for the positive this is what you get. This is a fundamental law of Nature.


Light a candle beside you when you are reading in the evening. It is most relaxing and creates a wonderful, soothing atmosphere. Make your home an oasis from the frenzied world outside. Fill it with great music, great books and great friends.

Sleep less.....!!!!!

Dear readers,

I got to know few things form one of my friend, they are really very inspiring words, i would like to share few gud words with you. First one which gave me the good results is :

"Sleep less. This is one of the best investments you can make to make your life more productive and rewarding. Most people do not need more than 6 hours to maintain an excellent state of health. Try getting up one hour earlier for 21 days and it will develop into a powerful habit. Remember, it is the quality not the quantity of sleep that is important. And just imagine having an extra 30 hours a month to spend on the things that are important to you."

Inspiring Thoughts

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Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind .

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You can't change the past,
But you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.

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Love...and you shall be loved.

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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

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All people smile in the same language.

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Everyone needs to be loved...
Especially when they do not deserve it.

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The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.

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Laughter is God's sunshine.

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Everyone has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.

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Thank God for what you have,
TRUST GOD for what you need.

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If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow,
You have no today to be thankful for.

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Man looks at outward appearance, but the Lord looks within.

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The choice you make today, will usually affect tomorrow.

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Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul .

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor, when you feel like stripping your gears.

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Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.

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Harsh words break no bones, but they do break hearts .

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To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.

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We take for granted the things, that we should be giving thanks for.

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Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.

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Happiness is enhanced by others, but does not depend upon others.

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For every minute you are angry with someone,
You lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

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Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.

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Chanakya's Quotes - Worth Learning

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"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC)

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"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
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Leadership

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader." -- Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men." -- Thomas Carlyle

The real leader has no need to lead-he is content to point the way. -- Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. -- Lao Tzu

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." -- Aristotle

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. " -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm." -- Publilius Syrus

"Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong."
––Ronald Reagan

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better." -- Jim Rohn

“You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.” -–Tiorio

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership.Always keep your word. -- Jim Rohn

"The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says "LET'S GO!" -- H. Gordon Selfridge

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." -- Vince Lombardi

"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader." -- Stephen R. Covey

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group." -- Russell H. Ewing

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." -- Arnold Glasow

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." -- Theodore Roosevelt,

"A leader is best When people barely know he exists, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say: We did it ourselves." -- Lao-Tzu

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." -- Rosalynn Carter

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Muriel Strode

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." -- Jim Rohn

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." James Crook Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Brian Tracy

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve." -- Toma Landry

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." -- Sam Walton

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent." -- Douglas McCarther

"You manage things; you lead people." -- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!" -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." -- Lao-Tzu

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved." -- Thomas Wolfe

"An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag." -- Viking Proverb

"It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions." -- Queen Latifah

"Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America." -- Ronald Reagan

"Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time." -- H. Ross Perot

"My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together." -- Colin Powell

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow." --
Chinese Proverb

"The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go." -- Egyptian Proverb

"The man whose authority is recent is always stern." -- Aeschylus

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily;even if you had no title or position. --Brian Tracy

"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." -- Elaine Agather

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." -- Marian Anderson

"Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of Yale University, Dr. James R. Angell explained: "Grow antennae, not horns." -- Dr. James Rowland Angell

"A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead." -- Anonymous

"Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it." -- Anonymous

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." --Aristotle

"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"It’s great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently." -- Keith Bellow

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." -- Warren G. Bennis

" . . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership." -- Warren G. Bennis

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." -- Warren G. Bennis

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." -- Kenneth Blanchard

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." -- Andrew Carnegie

"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess — fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others." -- Herbert N. Casson

"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage." -- Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" -- that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." -- Peter F. Drucker

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." -- Max DuPree

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -- General Dwight David Eisenhower

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership." -- General David Dwight Eisenhower

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better." -- John H. Fischer

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." -- Harold S. Green

"The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive." -- Hugh Gilmore

"A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership." -- R. H. Grant

"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." -- Richard Harkness

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." -- Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." -- Eric Hoffer

"Respect a man, he will do the more." -- James Howell

Leaders think and talk about the solutions.Followers think and talk about the problems. -- Brian Tracy

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together." -- Jesse Jackson

"The only real training for leadership is leadership." -- Anthony Jay

"No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside." -- Charles Franklin Kettering

"Lift, Lead and Love." -- Spencer W. Kimball

" A leader is best
When people barely know he exists.
Not so good
When people obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they despise him.
But of a good leader
Who talks little
When his work is done,
His aim fulfilled, They will say "We did it ourselves." -- Lao Tse

"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish — don't overdo it." -- Lao Tse

"There are no dumb questions—only dumb answers." -- Marshall Loeb

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." -- Max Lucado

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." -- Andre Malraux

"Leadership is influence." -- John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is an action, not a position." -- Donald H. McGannon

"A leader is a dealer in hope." -- Napolean I

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." -- Michael O'Brien

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged." -- Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you." -- Dennis A. Peer

"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself." -- William Penn

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership.How much people respect you determines how well they perform. -- Brian Tracy

"The same ambition can destroy or save,
And makes a patriot as it makes a knave." -- Alexander Pope

"Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement." -- F. G. “Buck” Rodgers

"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. " -- Jim Rohn

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"To lead in the 21st century-to take soldiers, sailors, and airmen into battle, you will be required to have both character and competence." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"He who reads is never alone." -- Helder Simone

"Learn to obey before you command." -- Solon

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep." -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand--Périgord

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable." -- Claude I. Taylor

"Consensus is the negation of leadership." -- Margaret Thatcher

"It is much safer to obey, than to govern." -- Thomas á Kempis

"A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment." -- Harry S. Truman

"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." -- Harry S. Truman

"Education is the mother of leadership." -- Wendell Lewis Wilkie

The three "C's"of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. -- Brian Tracy

"Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing." -- Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Achievement

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." –Dale Carnegie

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." – Robert Louis Stevenson

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." –– Chinese proverb

"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully." -- Zig Ziglar

"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." -- Confucius

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." -- Epictetus

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." -- David Bailey

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." -- Orison Swett Marden

"Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever." -- Zig Ziglar

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." –– Thomas Edison

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude." -- Zig Ziglar

"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that." -- Sir James M. Barrie

"We will either find a way, or make one." -- Hannibal

"Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." -- George Fabricius

"If you're insincere, it's manipulative. " -- Zig Ziglar

"Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity." -- Gabriel Heatter

"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." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way around is through." -- Robert Frost

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." --
Vincent Van Gogh

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." -- Jonas Salk

"You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have." -- Zig Ziglar

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy." A. P. Gouthey

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." -- Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." -- Napoleon Hill

"The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation." -- Jack Kinder

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him." -- Golo Mann

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." -- Foster C. Mcclellan

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." -- Plutarch

"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

"All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do. " -- Zig Ziglar

"Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." -- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." -- Eddie Robinson

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are." -- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. " -- Brian Tracy

"Never mistake activity for achievement. " -- John Wooden

"Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere." -- Zig Ziglar

"I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling." -- J.R. Simplot

"Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do." -- French

"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful." -- Alfred Adler

"Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least." -- Anonymous

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! " -- Anonymous

"If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain." -- Anonymous

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk." -- Anonymous


"Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend." -- Zig Ziglar

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." -- Anonymous

"The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep." -- Anonymous

"To go beyond is as bad as to fall short." Anonymous Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. -- Zig Ziglar

"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth." -- Anonymous

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." -- Bruce Barton

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -- William Blake

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -- William Jennings Bryan

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." -- Frank Clark

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." -- Bette Davis

"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting." -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can." -- Henry Drummond

"Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something." -- Thomas Alva Edison

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." -- General Dwight David Eisenhower

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements." -- Benjamin F. Fairless

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." -- Kahlil Gibran

You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it's seldom easy. -- Zig Ziglar

"If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty." -- Heber J. Grant

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." -- Dag Hammarskjöld

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." -- Helen Hayes

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." -- Napolean Hill

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people. -- Zig Ziglar

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys." -- Eric Hoffer

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." -- H. L. Hunt

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon — deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." -- William James

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Francis Kennedy

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. " -- Vince Lombardi

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side." -- Zig Ziglar

"There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy."

"The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."

"You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there." --Zig Ziglar

"Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before, A path to higher destinies." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." -- Niccoló Machiavelli

"The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for." -- Zig Ziglar

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do." -- Gian-Carlo Menotti

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement." -- Leo J. Muir

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit." -- Hugh Nibley

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation." -- Jack Niklaus

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage." -- Frederick Pierce

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." -- Ayn Rand

"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others." -- Ayn Rand

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting." -- Dr. Theodor Reik

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high." -- William Sharp

"Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love." -- Zig Ziglar

"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences , but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel." -- Delbert L. Stapley

"When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny." -- Zig Ziglar

"The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for." -- Zig Ziglar



"Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting.
PLAN while others are playing.
STUDY while others are sleeping.
DECIDE while others are delaying.
PREPARE while others are daydreaming.
BEGIN while others are procrastinating.
WORK while others are wishing.
SAVE while others are wasting.
LISTEN while others are talking.
SMILE while others are frowning.
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

COMMEND while others are criticizing.
PERSIST while others are quitting." -- William Arthur Ward

"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." -- Alfred North Whitehead

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -- John Wooden

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -- Woodrow Wilson

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." -- Robert Collier

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -- Conrad Hilton

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish." -- Brian Tracy

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come." -- C.S. Lewis

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -- Anonymous

"It's not the situation, but wheather we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important." -- Zig Ziglar

Control

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing themself." – Leo Tolstoy

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs." –– Andrew Carnegie

"Warriors take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them." -- Ancient Samurai saying

"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the others, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." -- Chuang Tzu

"No One is fit to command another that cannot command themself." -- William Penn

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let them." -- Napoleon Hill

"Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master, Your will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you." -- Charles E. Popplestone

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces." -- Og Mandino

"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure… they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it." -- John Bentham

"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." -- Chinese Proverb

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own." --
Samurai maxim & Chinese adage

"The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado." -- Louisa May Alcott

"The control center of your life is your attitude." -- Anonymous

"The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." -- Josh Billings

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food." -- Erma Bobeck

"As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control." -- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root." -- Robert Burns

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." -- Charles Robert Darwin

"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." -- Napoleon Hill

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him." -- Napolean Hill

"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward." -- Napolean Hill

"When any fit of anxiety or gloominess or perversion of the mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it, you will drive it away." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint." -- James Russell Lowell

"He that would govern others, first should be The Master of himself." -- Philip Massinger

"It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful." -- Neal A. Maxwell

"The Savior's constant desire and effort were to implant in the mind right thoughts, pure motives, noble ideals, knowing full well that right words and actions would inevitably follow.
He taught, and modern physiology and psychology confirm, that hate and jealousy and other evil passions destroy a man's physical vigor and efficiency. What a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield." -- David Oman McKay

"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king." -- John Milton

"The last and favorite resort of the clergy when they are questioned too closely is: their questioners simply don't understand; they are "uninstructed and amateurish." "Unless you accept our interpretation of the texts," the layman is told, "you obviously do not understand them. And if you don't understand them, you have no right to question our interpretation of them!"
And so the layman is put in his place. The guarded degree, the closed corporation, the technical vocabulary, these are the inner redoubt, the inviolable stronghold of usurped authority. Locked safe within the massive and forbidding walls of institution and formality lies what the Egyptians called "the king's secret," the secret of controlling the past." -- Hugh Nibley

"Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents." -- Hugh Nibley

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche

"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 (Tony) Robbins

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." -- William Shakespeare

"They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit Heaven’s graces,
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds:
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. " -- William Shakespeare

"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..." -- W. Clement Stone

"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively." -- William Clement Stone

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." -- Tao Te Ching

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, - These three alone lead life to sovereign power." --Alfred Lord Tennyson

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." -- Mark Twain

"Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty." -- James Q. Wilson

"If you can control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself . If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one." -- George G. Woodson

"Control your destiny or somebody else will." -- Jack Welsh

"You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you." -- Mark Victor Hansen

Motivational

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." -- St. Clement of Alexandra

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." -- Thornton Wilder

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." -- Aristotle

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." -- Voltaire

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." Author Unknown

"The best way out is always through." -- Robert Frost

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." -- William B. Sprague

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -- Samuel Johnson

"Fortune favors the brave." -- Publius Terence

"He who hesitates is lost." -- Proverb

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." -- Winston Churchill

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For hope is but the dream of those that wake." -- Matthew Prior

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone." -- Lucretius

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -- Mary Shelley