Pretensions and Enemies

1. Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. (E R Beadle)

2. The man who never makes a mistake always take orders from one who does. (Unknown)

3. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. (E Hofter)

4. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. (D Bates)

5. A good goal is like a strenuous exercise...it makes you stretch. (M K Ash)

Always Be Optimist

1. We tend to get what we expect. (N V Peale)
2. It's never too late to be what you might have been. (G Elliot)

3. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (E Roosevelt)

4. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.(S Jackson)

5. This above all; to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. (W Shakespeare)

Giving and Receiving

1. We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation, for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. (L A Seneca)

2. The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone, you develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. (E Agather)

3. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do, think up something appropriate and do it. (E W Howe)

4. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. (T Roosevelt)

Problem And It's Solution

1. Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds. (N V Peale)

2. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish proverb)

3. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (R W Emerson)

4. One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. (H Ford)

5. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity (A Einstein)

It's All In The Mind

1. The only lack or limitation is in your mind. (N H Moos)

2. Your altitude is determine by your attitude. (Anon)

3. If you are aware of your weakness and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless. (J Sidhu)

4. It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. (C M Bristol)

5. If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes (S C Alexandria)

6. A wise man will make more opportunity than he finds. (F Bacon)

Truth, Reputation And Life

1. Many man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. (E Hubbard)

2. There are two ways to live your life,. One is as though nothing is miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (A Einstein)

3. There are two great days in a person's life --- the day we are born and the day we discover why. (W Barclay)

4. All truth passes through three stages; First, it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. (A.Schopenhaur)

Friends May Come And Go

1. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. (T Jones)

2. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. (L Lewin)

3. The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalized it when it comes along. (H B Lewis)

4. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. (J A Garfield)

5. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and is prepared to assume responsibilities. (W J H Boetcker)

Ingenuity Of Fools

1. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to under estimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (D Adams)

2. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (E Jong)

3. Many people use their youths to make their old age miserable. (Anon)

4. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. (W Morris)

5. We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. (M S Peck)

Think That You Can

1. They can because they think they can. (Virgil)

2. What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. (Seneca)

3. None are so old as those who have out lived enthusiasm (H D Thoureau)

4. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (E G Hubbard)

5. I can live for two months on good compliment. (M Twain)

6. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. (T Lasorda)

Human nature

1. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them, Every day began the task a new. (S F Sales).

2. If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. (K Gibran)

3. Guard well within yourself that treasure; kindness. Know how to give without hesitations, how to lose without regrets, how to acquire without meanness. (G Sand)

4. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (E Hubbard)

Man, Works and Regrets

1. The true measure of man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (S Johnson)

2. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. (C N Parkinson)

3. A people that value its privilage above its principles soon loses both. (D D Eisenhower)

4. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (A Einstein)

5. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. (Xenocrates)

Best Things In Life

1. The best thing in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. (R L Stevenson)

2. Let go your attachment at being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. (R Marston)

3. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. (T T Hunger)

4. Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. (D Seabury)

The Best Thing

1. The best thing in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. (R L Stevenson)

2. Let go your attachment at being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. (R Marston)

3. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. (T T Hunger)

4. Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. (D Seabury)

Fool and Bigger Fools

1. The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do. (Unknown)

2. The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. (S Jersey)

3. Characters cannot developed in ease and quiet, only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (H Keller)

4. Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (M Twain)

Let's Not Regret

1. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband/wife, a friend, a child or a parent. (B Bush)

2. The best time to make friends is before you need them. (E Barrymore)

3. Ask yourself this question: Will this matter a year from now? ((R Carlson)

4. It's not the situation......it's your reaction to the situation. (B Conklin)

5. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. (T Paine)

Door of Happiness and Money

1. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (H Keller)

2. Successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually in comparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. (A Einstein)

3. If a man has money, it is usually a sign too, that he knows how to take care of it, don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. (E W Howe).

To Be A Better Person

- Secrets of family communication:
1. Listen - just listen
2. Don't criticize or judge
3. Talk from the heart
4. Don't assume
5. Show your love

- To beat the daily grind you may have to change your habit. But you'll reap significant rewards; less stress, better health and greater sense of accomplishment.

- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

It Took Twenty Years

1. Actually I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. (M Hill)

2. The third rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. (A A Milne)

3. Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. (V G Thomson)

4. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. (W Churchill)

Simply Simple Acts

1. Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for, isn't worth it.

2. Don't make a date for anything more than a month in advance.

3. Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place its always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

4. What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.

5. Sow an action and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Doing a Good Job

1. Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask.

2. Write down ideas; they get lost, like good pens.

3. Long hours don't mean anything; results count, not effort.

4. Never in your life say, "It's not my job."

5. Understand what finished work looks like and deliver your work only when it is finished.