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