Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 9, 2012, 1:34 am
It’s not the hours you put into your work that count — it’s the work you put into the hours. – Sam Ewing The most important thing about goals is… having one. – Geoffry F. Abert Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. – Louisa May Alcott You are unique. Just like everyon...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 8, 2012, 1:33 am
Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. – Albert Einstein Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sil...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 7, 2012, 12:35 am
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. – James W. Frick Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 6, 2012, 2:35 am
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. – Stephen Vizinczey Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. – Bruce Lee Do you know what the greatest test i...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 5, 2012, 1:34 am
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus There is a millionaire inside of you…you decide who wins. – Doug Firebaugh Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it. – Jim Rohn Dont jo...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 4, 2012, 12:33 am
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. – Sonia Johnson There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness. – Gregg Braden What we see dep...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 3, 2012, 1:32 am
Successful people are simply those with successful habits. – Brian Tracy Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discour...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 2, 2012, 1:32 am
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth. – Maxwell Maltz Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing. – Mark Victor Hansen The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in ev...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Feb 1, 2012, 2:31 am
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. – Maureen Dowd Courage, that is the temporary domination of will over instinct, brings about victory. – Ardant du Picq Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 31, 2012, 1:30 am
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. – Shimon Peres All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others. – Anonymous Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the h...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 30, 2012, 2:30 am
Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential. – Denis Waitley Men do not fail; they give up trying. – Elihu Root The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake. – Richard Wheeler Gratitude takes t...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 29, 2012, 2:29 am
He who angers you conquers you. – Elizabeth Kenny A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. – General George S. Patton Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. – Thomas Edison Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. – Oscar Wilde What most...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 28, 2012, 1:28 am
The beginning is always today. – Mary Wollstonecraf Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. – Dale E. Turner It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are g...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 27, 2012, 1:28 am
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. – James Corbett There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 26, 2012, 2:27 am
Ultimately, it is through serving others that we become fully human. – Marsha Sinetar It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. – Mick Jagger Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail. – Anne Wilson Schaef We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, bu...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 25, 2012, 2:26 am
Act the part; walk and talk exactly as if you were already the person you want to be. – Brian Tracy The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin If y...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 24, 2012, 2:26 am
When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy. – Samuel Goldwyn The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. – Thomas Arnold Bennett Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr. S...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 23, 2012, 2:25 am
Our aspirations are our possibilities. – Robert Browning If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. – Jack Welch Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh The signific...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 22, 2012, 1:19 am
Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. – Bishop Hall Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow. – Swedish Proverb Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 21, 2012, 2:18 am
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. – Annie Lennox Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. – Doug Firebaugh Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 20, 2012, 2:17 am
To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart. – Sydney Smiles In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. – Robert G. Ingersoll Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winsto...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 19, 2012, 2:16 am
Don’t be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. – Chiang Kai Shek To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excell...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 18, 2012, 2:16 am
Life is what I make it, always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses A great drive, a powerful determination and a consuming desire will easily compensate for a little or limited talent. – Robert Schuller Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 17, 2012, 2:15 am
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. – Helen Keller Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket. – Doug Horton No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. – James T. Mccay ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 16, 2012, 2:14 am
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. – Johann v Goethe The purpose of a business is to create a customer. – Peter F. Drucker Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. – Vince Lom...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 15, 2012, 2:14 am
All beginnings require that you unlock a new door. – Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between. – Pat Riley In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 14, 2012, 2:13 am
... M. Kelly Pray to God but continue to row to the shore. – Russian Proverb What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. – Paul Eldridge
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 13, 2012, 2:12 am
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. – Henry David Thoreau Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. – Norman Cousins The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Einstein The differe...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 12, 2012, 2:12 am
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. – William A. Ward The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. – Robert Heinlein Nothing leads t...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 11, 2012, 2:11 am
The most important thing about goals is… having one. – Geoffry F. Abert Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. – Louisa May Alcott You are unique. Just like everyone else. – Anonymous As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency....
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Jan 10, 2012, 1:10 am
Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. – Albert Einstein Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sil...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Nov 2, 2011, 5:03 am
The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. – Martha Washington Change before you have to. – Jack Welch Security is a superstition–it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. – Helen Kelle...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Nov 1, 2011, 5:03 am
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. – Abraham H. Maslow You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere. – Brian Tracy To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not kn...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 31, 2011, 5:02 am
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing. – Ernest J. Gaines People don’t fail because they aimed too high and missed, but because they aimed too low and hit. – Les Brown Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the fie...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 30, 2011, 5:01 am
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. – Wayne Dyer People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. – George Matthew Allen Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. –...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 29, 2011, 5:01 am
Two little words that can make the difference: Start now. – Mary C. Crowley The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.  – Victor Hugo We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life. – Elisabeth Ku...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 28, 2011, 5:00 am
Don’t dwell on who let you down, cherish those who hold you up. – Unknown Guilt is anger directed at ourselves-at what we did or did not do. – Peter McWilliams I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 27, 2011, 4:59 am
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Aeschylus Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement. – Donald A. Laird Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. – Gerald R. Ford Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. â€...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 26, 2011, 4:59 am
Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. – James T. Mccay The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in – Edward Everett Hale Accept th...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 25, 2011, 4:58 am
How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. – Martin Luther Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success; both theirs and yours. – T. Harv Eker The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish u...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 24, 2011, 4:58 am
Recognize that life is what you get when youre born … living is what you do with it. – Jim Allen A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. – Ellen Glasgow Character consists of what you ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 23, 2011, 4:57 am
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Anon Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 22, 2011, 4:56 am
Each is responsible for his own actions. – H. L. Hunt What’s meant to be will always find a way – Trisha Yearwood You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywh...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 21, 2011, 4:56 am
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. – George Sheehan A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. – John C. Maxwell Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 20, 2011, 4:55 am
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. – Theodore Isaac Rubin The deeper that sorro...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 19, 2011, 4:54 am
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. – Mary Lou Cook Most smiles are started by another smile. – Frank A. Clark Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes. – Benjamin Franklin In the absence of ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 18, 2011, 4:54 am
Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances – Unknown We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Sir Winston Churchill Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. – Muhammad Ali Don’t judge each day by th...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 17, 2011, 4:53 am
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrew Holmes The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. – George Patton, General Good friendships are fragile things an...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 16, 2011, 4:52 am
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of ...
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Bea C. posted an article on Thoughts to Ponder - Oct 15, 2011, 4:52 am
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. – Estee Lauder Whenever yo...
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