Words from the Wise

There may be many people that “Have your Back,”
But none of them will have it better than You
–Reverend John

Every Day through the Grace of God, a Positive Mental Attitude,
and Faith in God and Myself
I am becoming Healthier, Wealthier and Wiser
–Reverend John

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache
has the seed of an Equivalent or Greater Benefit
–Napoleon Hill

What the Mind of Man can Conceive and Believe, It can Achieve!
–Napoleon Hill

Attitude NOT your Aptitude determines your Altitude!

— Zig Ziglar

It’s about mentally overriding discomfort and push your body beyond it’s expectations.

— David Blaine

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower
— Steve Jobs

Failure: A man who has blundered and not able to cash in on the experience
Elbert Hubbard

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be;
and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike,
not to take thought for your persons or your properties,
but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
I tell you that virtue is not given by money,
but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.
This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

–Socrates

Hope Sees the Invisible, Feels the Intangible, and Acheives the Impossible
–Anonymous

On Achievements:
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success.
A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
–Andrew Carnegie

Begin with the end in mind.
–Stephen Covey

On Confidence:
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
–Henry Ford

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do
than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
–Mark Twain

On Communication:
If there is any great secret of success in life,
it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place
and to see things from his point of view – as well as your own.
–Henry Ford

Overcoming Failure:
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping-stones to success.
–Dale Carnegie

On Ability:
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity,
no matter how impressive their other talents.
–Andrew Carnegie

Benjamin Frankin On:

Success
A little neglect may breed mischief:
for want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
–Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter

–Benjamin Frankin

Energy
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them?
Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?

–Benjamin Frankin

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.

–Benjamin Frankin

Father of Light and Life, thou Good supreme– O teach me what is good, Teach me thy self!
Save me from Folly, Vanity and Vice, From every low Pursuit
And fill my soul with Knowlege, conscious Peace, & Virture pure–Sacred, Substantial, neverfading Bliss!
—One of Benjamin Fraklin’s favorites – from “Thompson’s Poems”

Wisdom
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
–Benjamin Frankin

Strategy
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
–Benjamin Frankin

Money
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

–Benjamin Frankin

Time
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

–Benjamin Frankin

Freedom
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

–Benjamin Frankin

Democracy
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last;
but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

–Benjamin Franklin

Lee Iacocca On:

Determination
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times.
I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches.
And I learned the value of hard work.

–Lee Iacocca

Perseverance
Boys, there ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals.
You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. –Lee Iacocca

On Integrity I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. –Lee Iacocca

Family
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family,
what have you really accomplished?
–Lee Iacocca

Business
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
–Lee Iacocca

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
–Vincent Lombardi

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,
but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
–Peter Marshall

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough;
and if they do not find them, they will make them.
–Samuel Smiles

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.
–Robert Collier

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
–Unknown Author

Dale Carnegie On:

Creativity
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. –Dale Carnegie

Action
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”
–Dale Carnegie

Business
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
–Dale Carnegie

Courage
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
–Dale Carnegie

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.
Then never, never, never give up.
–Norman Vincent Peale

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
–Thomas Jefferson

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one,
must… be undaunted when the going gets tough.
–Ronald Reagan

A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him.
I never felt that I could let up for a single moment.
–Harry Truman

Sam Walton On:

Expectation
High expectations are the key to everything.
–Sam Walton

Perseverance
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
–Sam Walton

Leadership
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
–Sam Walton

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
–T. S. Elliot

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
–Buddha

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
–Nora Roberts