Words of Wisdom
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." —Ambrose Redmoon
"It is your decisions not your conditions that truly shape the quality of your life." —Anthony Robbins
"Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear." —Anthony Robbins
"We must find time to stop and thank the people who have made a difference in our lives." —Dan Zadra
"To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves'." —Lao Tzu
"The consequence of living our lives at warp speed is that we rarely take time to reflect on what we value most deeply or to keep these priorities front and center. Most of us spend more time reacting to immediate crises and responding to expectations from others than we do making considered choices guided by what matters most to us." —Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, The Power Of Full Engagement
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." —Thomas Carlye
"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage without fear." —P. Hayes
"Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it." —Barry Rogstad
"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." —Brendan Francis
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." —Marie Curie
"If your actions inspire others to do more, to learn more, to dream more or to become more, you are a leader." —John Quincy Adams
"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." —Arland Gilbert
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"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 Pierpont Morgan
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." —English proverb
"The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in?" —Dan Quayle
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." —Albert Einstein
"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." —Mike Murdock
"Real difficulties can be overcome. It's the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." —Theodore Vail
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." —Ambrose Redmoon
"Luck favors the well prepared." —anonymous
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." —T.S. Eliot
"If we can only accept what we currently believe, we have already reached our full potential. Be willing to experiment, to take risks. While skepticism can be healthy, too much skepticism can be deadly... deadly to one's spirit, to one's sense of well-being and to one's dreams." —Blair Warren
"People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies." —Blair Warren
"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future." —Marilyn Ferguson
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
"How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done?'" —Nathaniel Branden
"Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor." —Brian Tracy
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." —Alan Lakein
"Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of confidence." —Vince Lombardi
"Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional." —Alan Cohen
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them." —Booker T. Washington
"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems." —Margaret Mead
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." —Anne Bradstreet
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand." —Kotaku Wamura (Mayor of Japanese village who built a sea wall, against many protests, which recently saved the town when the tsunami hit NE Japan)
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." —Indira Gandhi
"A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence." —Stephen Covey
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!" —Jonathan Winters
"If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will GROW. Challenge the doubts with action and YOU will grow." —John Kanary
"Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake." —Jim Collins
"Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece." —Sherry Rothfield
"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails." —anonymous
"Life's not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain." —B.J. Gallagher
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." —Thomas Jefferson
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." —Mahatma Gandhi
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." —Gandhi
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." —English proverb
"Great masters merit emulation, not worship." —Alan Cohen
