Favourite Quotes or Sayings
Favourite Quotes
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal
achieving."
- Dennis Waitley
"Nothing is more confusing than people who give great advice but set a
bad example."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence then, is not an act, but a
habit."
- Aristotle
"Success comes not from what you know but who you know and how you
present yourself to each of those people."
- Lee Iococca
The Thief's Loan
=================
No one can steal.
They only take out a loan against their future
that must be paid back in some form or another
with extremely high interest.
~Nathaniel Bronner Jr.~
"You don't win a gold medal with a few weeks of intensive
training...Every great company, every great brand, every great career has been built
in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little."
- Seth Godin
"Every little action of eveyday, makes or unmakes character."
-Oscar Wilde-
This was written by Wilde from his jail cell at the age of 43 after he
had squandered everything he once had. Once the toast of London he was
now paying the price for the poor decisions he made over the course of
his lifetime when it appeared he was sitting atop the world. He died
broke and alone at the age of 46.
"Success is piece of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction
in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are
capable."
-John Wooden-
Wooden is considered not only the best NCAA coach ever but also one of
the most successful coaches in any sport at any point in history. His
leadership skills are still highly sought after even at the age of 97.
He is the author of several very successful books on leadership and
coaching. Check out Woodens' Pyramid of Success...
http://www.coachjohnwooden.com/pyramidpdf.pdf
"Most people don't lead their lives, they accept them."
-John Kotter-
Brief Bio on John Kotter...
A Harvard Business School Professor, Kotter is regarded as a foremost
authority on leadership and change. His most notable book, "Leading
Change", was an international bestseller. It outlined an 8-step process
for implementing successful transformations within an organization.
Check out a bit more about about John Kotter...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kotter
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"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by
changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in
fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove."
-Samuel Johnson, eighteenth-century poet-
Check out more on Samuel Johnson at...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art
of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life is consists of the
elimination of nonessentials."
-Lin Yutang, Chinese author and philsopher-
Check out more about Lin Yutang at...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang
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In many aspects of our life, 80% of our results come largely from 20%
of our activities.
- Based on a concept developed by Italian Economist Vilfredo Pareto-
To learn a more about the principle check out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all
material gain, all great discoveries and inventions and all achievement."
-Claude M. Bristol, author of "The Magic of Believing"
To find out more about this book check out...
http://astore.amazon.com/youarewhatyouthink-20/detail/0743539486/00...
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"Everytime you put an idea across, you can guarantee that at least 10
other people have thought if before you did-but they only THOUGHT about
it!!"
-Author Alfred Montapert-
Challenge: What idea have you been sitting on that you could take
ACTION on today?
Great ideas are everywhere if you keep your eyes and ears open for
them.
True Story...
One night at dinner, a friend of a man named John Kilcullen's described
something he overheard in a bookstore. A customer asked the clerk,
"Do you have any simple books on Mircosoft DOS-you know, something for
dummies?" It was only a passing comment, meant as a joke. But it struck
Kilcullen when he heard the story. And more importantly, he did
something with it. He launched the "Dummies" books series.
-Excerpt from author John C. Maxwell's book "Today Matters."
The scoop...
The Dummies series now encompasses a product line of over 370 titles in
30 plus languages.
Your challenge...
Where will your next idea come from? How can you train yourself to be
more open to the ideas that are out there?
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal
achieving."
- Dennis Waitley
"Nothing is more confusing than people who give great advice but set a
bad example."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence then, is not an act, but a
habit."
- Aristotle
"Success comes not from what you know but who you know and how you
present yourself to each of those people."
- Lee Iococca
The Thief's Loan
=================
No one can steal.
They only take out a loan against their future
that must be paid back in some form or another
with extremely high interest.
~Nathaniel Bronner Jr.~
"You don't win a gold medal with a few weeks of intensive
training...Every great company, every great brand, every great career has been built
in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little."
- Seth Godin
"Every little action of eveyday, makes or unmakes character."
-Oscar Wilde-
This was written by Wilde from his jail cell at the age of 43 after he
had squandered everything he once had. Once the toast of London he was
now paying the price for the poor decisions he made over the course of
his lifetime when it appeared he was sitting atop the world. He died
broke and alone at the age of 46.
"Success is piece of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction
in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are
capable."
-John Wooden-
Wooden is considered not only the best NCAA coach ever but also one of
the most successful coaches in any sport at any point in history. His
leadership skills are still highly sought after even at the age of 97.
He is the author of several very successful books on leadership and
coaching. Check out Woodens' Pyramid of Success...
http://www.coachjohnwooden.com/pyramidpdf.pdf
"Most people don't lead their lives, they accept them."
-John Kotter-
Brief Bio on John Kotter...
A Harvard Business School Professor, Kotter is regarded as a foremost
authority on leadership and change. His most notable book, "Leading
Change", was an international bestseller. It outlined an 8-step process
for implementing successful transformations within an organization.
Check out a bit more about about John Kotter...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kotter
-
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by
changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in
fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove."
-Samuel Johnson, eighteenth-century poet-
Check out more on Samuel Johnson at...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art
of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life is consists of the
elimination of nonessentials."
-Lin Yutang, Chinese author and philsopher-
Check out more about Lin Yutang at...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang
-
In many aspects of our life, 80% of our results come largely from 20%
of our activities.
- Based on a concept developed by Italian Economist Vilfredo Pareto-
To learn a more about the principle check out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all
material gain, all great discoveries and inventions and all achievement."
-Claude M. Bristol, author of "The Magic of Believing"
To find out more about this book check out...
http://astore.amazon.com/youarewhatyouthink-20/detail/0743539486/00...
-
"Everytime you put an idea across, you can guarantee that at least 10
other people have thought if before you did-but they only THOUGHT about
it!!"
-Author Alfred Montapert-
Challenge: What idea have you been sitting on that you could take
ACTION on today?
Great ideas are everywhere if you keep your eyes and ears open for
them.
True Story...
One night at dinner, a friend of a man named John Kilcullen's described
something he overheard in a bookstore. A customer asked the clerk,
"Do you have any simple books on Mircosoft DOS-you know, something for
dummies?" It was only a passing comment, meant as a joke. But it struck
Kilcullen when he heard the story. And more importantly, he did
something with it. He launched the "Dummies" books series.
-Excerpt from author John C. Maxwell's book "Today Matters."
The scoop...
The Dummies series now encompasses a product line of over 370 titles in
30 plus languages.
Your challenge...
Where will your next idea come from? How can you train yourself to be
more open to the ideas that are out there?
Tags: aristotle, bell, dummies, iococca, peale, quotes, waitley, wilde
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Joey on -
"Work Hard, Play Hard"
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it."
" Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new."
Henry Davod Thoreau
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens
"Asking a question is only embarrassing just for that moment. Not asking is embarrassing and it will haunt you for the rest of your life."
Japanese Proverb
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
Jesse Jackson
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Permalink Reply by Parthena on -
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that is
doing its best to make you just like everybody
else means to fight the greatest battle there is
to fight and to never stop fighting."
— E. E. Cummings
American Poet and Painter
"It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button."
Excerpted from a workshop in Boca Raton, FL on Sunday, January 12th, 1997 Abraham-Hicks.com
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur, American Rap Artist and Poet
"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life." -- Harvey Mackay
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Today is a one-time deal. Offer Expires At Midnight" -
Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe
"Never put off til tomorrow what you are willing to die today left undone" - Pablo Picasso
"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." Carl G. Jung
There are so many more! Lately I have been focusing on thinking only positive thoughts, feeling only positive emotions and not allowing anything that is not sweet and kind come out of my mouth. My ideas come from other people, whether I agree with them or not, music, nature, my pets and most importantly, my dreams.
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