.:: Character ::.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.  

~French Proverb

Character is higher than intellect. 

 ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't try to be different.  Just be good.  To be good is different enough.

  ~Arthur Freed

Your life may be the only Bible some people read.  

~Author Unknown

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. 

 ~Author Unknown

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?  

~William Lloyd Garrison

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

  ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. 

 ~William Safire

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.  

~Albert Einstein

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! 

 ~Author Unknown

When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.  That's my religion. 

~Abraham Lincoln

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it.  Autograph your work with excellence.  

~Author Unknown

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.  

~Henry Ford

Laws control the lesser man.  Right conduct controls the greater one.  

~Chinese Proverb

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.  

~Mark Twain, "What Is Man?", 1906

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

  ~John Lubbock

"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him." 

~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." 

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."

~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 

.:: Courage ::.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  

~Ambrose Redmoon

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  

~Winston Churchill

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. 

 ~Mary Anne Radmacher

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  ~Mark Twain

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.  

~Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. 

 ~Dan Rather

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared.

~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  ~C.S. Lewis

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.  

~John F. Kennedy

One man with courage makes a majority. 

 ~Andrew Jackson

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  

~Raymond Lindquist

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. 

 ~Michel de Montaigne

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.  

~Alfred North Whitehead

.:: Achievement ::.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

~Harold Taylor

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

~Dr. Jonas Salk 

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

~Conrad Hilton

There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements. 

~Anonymous

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.

~Mahatma Gandhi 

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

 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

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

~Alfred North Whitehead

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

 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

 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.

.:: Glory ::.

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

~ Socrates

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.

~ William Shakespeare

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

~Joseph P. Thompson

 There is no road of flowers leading to glory

~Jean de La Fontaine

“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”

~ Unknown

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him. 

~Plutarch

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

~ George Bernard Shaw

.:: Love ::.

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

~ Albert Einstein

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

~ Source Unknown

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

~ Source Unknown

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

~ Plato

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live. 

~ Source Unknown

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return.

~ From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole 

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

~ Thomas Fuller ..

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

~ Iris Murdoch

.:: Life ::.

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

 ~ Unknown

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
~Lillian Dickson

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

~ James Dean

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

~ Ashley smith

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~Chinese Proverb

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
~Charles Dickens

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
~Wilson Mizner

Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
~ Unknown

 

.:: Change ::.

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!" 

~Peter Senge

"One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment."

~  Robert E. Quinn

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

~ James Dean

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

~ Maria Robinson

"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."

~ Mark Twain

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business." 

~ Mark Sanborn

.:: Smile ::.

.:: Innovation ::.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. 

~ American inventor Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958)

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

~ American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931) 

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. 

~Woddy Allen 

 Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way. 

~Michael Vance 

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

~Mason Cooley

 

“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress” 

~Ted Levitt

 

 When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

~Larry Ellison 

.:: Vision ::.

 "The empires of the future are empires of the mind."  

~Winston Churchill

"Big thinking precedes great achievement."

~  Wilferd Peterson

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."

~ Jonathan Swift

 
Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

~Robert Collier

“Create your future from your future, not your past.”

~ Werner Erhard

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.”

~ William Jennings Bryan

 “Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.”

~ Jon Madonna

.:: Ability ::.

" Willingness + readiness + ability = destination."

The difference between the impossible and possible lies in a person's determination.

 Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

~ Lou Holtz

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. 

~ John Wooden

The most interesting income you will receive from doing good work is the increased ability to do better work. 

~ F.D. Van Amburgh

 
" The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is - it must be something you cannot possibly do."

~ Henry Moore

.:: Best Morning ::. 14Jan'11

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams; live the life you've imagined.

~ Thoreau

"When u truly care for someone, you don't look for faults,

you don't look for answers,

you don't look for mistakes, instead u fight the mistakes,

you accept the faults and you overlook the excuses"

 

:) KeeP SmilinG ForeveR :)

Seven golden rules of life

 Seven golden rules of life:

1st
Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an
option in their life.
Relationships work best when they are balanced.

Take a good look at the people in your life…family, friends, co-workers,
significant others, etc. Stop making excuses for poor behavior, don't
accept less than what you deserve, and weed out the ones who only
care about their own needs being met.
"A relationship should complement, not complicate."

2nd
When you keep saying you are busy, then you are never free.
When you keep saying you have no time, then you will never have time.
When you keep saying that you will do it tomorrow, then your tomorrow
will never come.

3rd
When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours.

4th
We make them cry who care for us.
We cry for those who never care for us.
And we care for those who will never cry for us.
This is the truth of life, it's strange but true. Once you realize
this, it's never too late to change.

5th
Never explain yourself to anyone.
Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who
doesn't like you won't believe it.

6th
Time is like river. You can't touch the same water twice, because the
flow that has passed will never pass again.

7th
Don't make promise when you are in joy.
Don't reply when you are sad.
Don't take decision when you are angry.
Think twice, act twice.

.:: Success ::.

.:: Best Morning ::. 12Jan'11

We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. 

~Robert Brault.

When you start treating people like people, they become people. 

~Paul Vitale

 

Be kind to your shadow.  

~Rebecca Lawless

:) KeeP SmilinG ForeveR :) 

"Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt,
sing like no one is listening,
and live like it's heaven on earth."

True Happiness

Never search your happiness in others,

Which will make you feel alone,

Rather search it in Yourself,

Will feel happy Even if you are left alone…

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"Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power."

.:: GooDMorninG ::.

Yesterday is history,  Tomorrow's a mystery.  
Today is a gift; that's why they call it "the present".
~   Unknown

Best Relations are like Beauitful street lamps.

They may not make the distance shorter

but they light your path and make the journey easier

~   Unknown

The beauty U see around you is a reflection of the person you are.

The good you find in others is in you too.

~   Unknown

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and

lifting people up.

~   John Andrew Holmes

:) KeeP SmilinG ForeveR :)

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