Quote of the Day
"Be changed and the world around you begins to change."
Gerald Epstein
"Be changed and the world around you begins to change."
Gerald Epstein
"It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions."
Robert Collier
Lou Holtz:
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.
"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
Thomas J. Watson: Former president of IBM
"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing." -Charles M. Schwab
"Theres a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. Its a nonrenewable resource. Once you' have spent it, and if you have spent it badly, it is gone forever."
Neil Fiore
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." -Henry David Thoreau
"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results."
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible."
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess super human powers to achieve." - Napolean Hill
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." -Henry Ford
"If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected."
Bill Gates
"Imagination is everything. it is a preview of life's coming attractions." -Albert Einstein
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
"A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband."
(on the term "housewife")
"I believe the key is for women to not set any limits".
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
Edmund Burke: Statesman, political theorist and philosopher.
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
-Lord Chesterfield
"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."
Debbi Fields: Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
"When life kicks you, let it kick you forward." -Kay Yow
Kay Yow received the first V Foundation Award for Perseverance at the 2007 ESPY's; her story and her perseverance is truly amazing.
Searching for quotes about being frugal, to go with Kimber's Frugal Fridays, I came across Frugal For Life's Fun With Frugal Quotes (say that five times fast!):
"Money isn't everything - but it ranks right up there with oxygen." -Rita Davenport
"Worry is all about the illusion of control. When you worry, you are expending energy, and it feels like you are doing something." -Tammy Cravit
"I am not going to complain. I knew where the ride was going when I bought my ticket." -Tammy Cravit
"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it." -Pearl Buck
"When in doubt, do the obvious." -Joy Browne
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart." -Erma Bombeck
"A stale mind is the devil's breadbox." -Mary Bly
"The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you." -Nancy Astor
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."
Colin Powell
"Money is freedom; the lack of it, tyranny." -Colleen aka Communicatrix
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill: Former U.K. Prime Minister.
"If you don't value what you have you're sure to lose it."
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"Egos are expensive…man, ain't that the truth.
Lucky for me,
everytime I get too big for my britches,
life pulls my pants down."
-Kimber (Client K, Free Photo Of the Day, and No Limits Ladies)
"One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us."
- Bernie Siegel
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
Richard Branson: Virgin Founder & Entrepreneur.
"Your brain has a mind of it's own." -Kathryn Barrett
"The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement." - William Arthur Ward
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
Mary Engelbreit: Innovative artist, illustrator, publisher.
"No pressure? No diamonds." - Mary Case
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A. Edison
"It's not so much how busy your are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted." - Mary O' Connor
"Chase your passion, not your pension." - Denis Waitley
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
James Allen: Author, As a Man Thinketh.
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." -Harriet Braiker
"Action is the antidote to despair." -Joan Baez
"You can never tell what type of impact you may make on anothers life by your actions or lack of action. Sometimes just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine."
— Ed Foreman: Congressman, advisor to 5 American presidents.
"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
— Edward Stanley
"Power is the ability not to have to please." -Elizabeth Janeway
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"To get rich, never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."
— Richard Baker
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
— Dale Carnegie
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
— René Descartes: French philosopher.
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"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
—Martha Washington
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
— Steve Jobs: Founder, Apple Computer, technology visionary.
"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."
- Mae West
"A good goal is like a strenous exercise - it makes you stretch."
-Mary Kay Ash
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
"Time is our most precious asset; we should invest it wisely."
— Michael Levy
"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually destitute, that is exactly what you will be."
— Robert Collier
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-W. H. Murray
The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
"Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions." -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong-
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
- E.M. Gray
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
- Chinese Proverb
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
- Erma Bombeck
"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."
- Orison Swett Marden
"The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go."
- John Morgan and Ewing Webb
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours."
- Jules Jusseran
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through."
- F. W. Nichol
"When you believe you can-you can!"
- Maxwell Maltz
"Do a little more each day than you think you can."
- Lowell Thomas
"You become what you think about."
- Earl Nightingale
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination."
- W. Clement Stone
"I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success."
- Buddy Ebsen
"No great thing is created suddenly."
- Epictetus
"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."
- Maxwell Maltz
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
- Ella Fitzgerald
"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."
- Maxwell Maltz
"The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."
- Marianne Williamson
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
- Dale Carnegie
"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
- Napoleon Hill
"Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
- Voltaire
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
- E.M. Gray
"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything."
- Harry Browne
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Mary Kay Ash
"If you decide to go for it, do it with spirit: Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal."
- Charles Buxton
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's. ~Earl Wilson
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Robert Kiyosaki
"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do."
“In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
-Abigail Adams, in a letter to John Adams, 1776
Taken from the Women's History Trivia Rich Woman Blog post today.
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an act it is a habit.
~Aristotle~
"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do."
- Jerry Garcia
Robert A. Heinlein:
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
"Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
- Voltaire
"If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve."
- Anthony Robbins
"I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."
- Harry S. Truman
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
- George E. Allen
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
- Brian Tracy
"Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution."
- Raymond E. Feist
"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures."
- Charles C. Noble
"You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."
- Wayne Gretzky
"Twenty YEARS from now you will be more DISAPPOINTED by the things you DIDN'T do then by the ONES you did. So throw off the BOWLINES, sail away from this safe HARBOR, catch the trade WINDS in your SAILS. EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER."
- Mark Twain
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
- Johnny Cash
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
- Thomas A. Edison
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
- Bruce Barton
"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
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith
"If you’ve had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you’ve achieved."
- Vic Conant
"There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings."
- Stephen Covey
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"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
- Wayne Dyer
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
- Jacob A. Riis
"Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."
- Mark Twain
"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence."
- Denis Waitley
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
- Anthony Robbins
"View every problem as an opportunity…"
- Joseph Sugarman
"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
- Napoleon Hill
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle." - William Penn
"If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal." -Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
"Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." - Denis Waitley
"In imagination, there's no limitation." - Mark Victor Hansen
"I dream my painting and then paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh
"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination." - Maxwell Maltz
"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
- The Dalai Lama
"In the end, we do battle only with ourselves. Once we understand this and focus our energy on what we can do to control our lives... we begin to gain important insights into how life works."
- J. Stanley Judd
"Success...My nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed."
- Louis Lundborg
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." - Wayne Dyer
"I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd
"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds." - Jameson Frank
"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles."
- William Penn
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown
"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you." - Mark Victor Hansen
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher
It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! -from the No Limits Ladies
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt (1910 Speech in Paris)
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
- George E. Allen
"Fixing your objective is like identifying the North Star - you sight your compass on it and then use it as the means of getting back on track when you tend to stray."
- Marshall Dimock
Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"--Jim Rohn
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)
A friend of mine said this earlier this week; I'm not sure who she was quoting or if this is exactly right- but the essence of it has been powerful in my mind:
"Be rigid and controlled in your daily life, so that you may be creative and violent in your art."
Here are more quotes on creativity:
Early in my career I felt that organization would destroy my creativity. Whereas now, I feel the opposite. Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.--Verna Gibson
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.--Mae Jemison
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.--Geri Weitzman
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
- George E. Allen
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird--that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity.--Charles Mingus
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." -Hasidic saying (from The Art of the Start)
"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
- Napoleon Hill
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
- Wayne Dyer
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
- Thomas A. Edison
"A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy's country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, "You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice—we win, or we perish! They won.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success"
- Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A. Edison
"Women are like teabags; put them in hot water and they get stronger." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
- Julia Sorel
"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
"THE PROBLEMS OF THIS WORLD cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
"You must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated risk, and act.. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." - Maxwell Maltz
"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don’t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don’t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
- Michael Gerber
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
- George E. Allen
"We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded, we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, we now defy."
- William Jennings Bryan
"In the end, we do battle only with ourselves. Once we understand this and focus our energy on what we can do to control our lives... we begin to gain important insights into how life works."
- J. Stanley Judd
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
- Chief Seattle
"All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means."
- Robert Collier
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
- Madeline L'Engle
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or backward. -RK
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
- Buddha
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus. -Alexander Graham Bell
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through."
"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground."
- Sophia Bedford-Pierce
"Ignorance can be overcome by education, but stupidity lasts forever."
"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal: Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing."
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
"Business is a great teacher:
It makes you take risks, go for your dreams, face fears, handle your emotions, deal with difficult people, and learn balance. You don't have to do any weird workshops or sign up for any therapy sessions. Go into business and you'll be enrolled in the greatest seminar of all time. And it happens every day, every where, to every one. You can't avoid it."
"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."
- Michael Jordan
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with...
(song playing as I sit freezing in Starbucks after too many iced mochas trying to read The Pre-Foreclosure Property Kit)
"The more a person seeks security the more scarcity they will have in their life. Security and scarcity go hand in hand. That is why people who seek job security or guarantees are often the people with less abundance in their life. One of the reasons the 90/10 rule of money holds true is most people spend their lives seeking more security instead of seeking more financial skills. The more financial skills you have the more abundance you will have in your life."
-R D's Guide to Investing
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our
children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan
"To achieve more and better results, more resourcefulness is as important as more resources."
Well sorta... I was thinking today about an interview I heard Will Smith do. He said there are two things he does (daily) to beat the noise in his head: read and run . Great advice!
"From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, a girl needs good looks. From 35 to 55, she needs a good personality. And from 55 on, she needs cash." -Sophie Tucker
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." -Mary Wollstonecraft
"A woman will always be dependent until she carries a purse of her own."
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home."
The only thing that stands between a woman and what she wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Managing money is a life skill." -Kim Kiyosaki
She who associates with those who are wiser than she is, is wiser than they are... c\_/
"Constant life changes will distract you if you allow it." -S. Olafson
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. -Unknown
"The first step to becoming is to will it."
- Mother Teresa
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy,
The chance to draw back,
Always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative and creation,
There is one elementary truth
The ignorance of which kills countless ideas
And endless plans:
That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occured.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
Raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen
incidents and meetings and material assistance.
Which no one could have dreamed would come their way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can,
Begin.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Begin now.
-Johann Goethe
"Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground. "
by Sophia Bedford-Pierce
"If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
-Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
"If you educate a man, you educate a person; if you educate a woman, you educate a family." -Ruby Manikan
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." (woo hoo!)
"Gold in a purse is gratifying to own and satisfies a miserly soul but earns nothing."
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
"Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that won't run." -Phyllis Diller
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you are being miserable." -Clare Boothe Luce
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today."
"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."
"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires."
- Abigail Van Buren
"Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part."
Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
Oprah Winfrey
"He who reigns within himself (herself) and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.(queen!)" - John Milton
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale
"Aim for success not perfection. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it."
- Jim Rohn
"When I hear someone say, 'I'll start as soon as I have the money', it justifies not doing anything because you can't...until you have the money. It's a great excuse to do nothing." -Kim Kiyosaki from her new book Rich Woman
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein
"Women will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton women's rights activist (1815-1902)
I can trust my friends... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. --Cher
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt