"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." - Harry Firestone

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use of them." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"I don't believe 1 grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age 1 stands still & stagnates."~T.S. Elliot

"Never believe anything until it's officially denied." -- Margaret Attwiid

"There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good." - Tillotson

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat." - Malcolm Forbes

"If you find in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - Maya Angelou

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."~Glenn Clark

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."~George Bernard Shaw

"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within."~Steven H. Coogler

"To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."~John Henry Patterson

"Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins."~Sioux Indian prayer

"Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."~Carl Zwanzig

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"What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it."~Mahatma Gandhi

"Think big and expand your ideas. Keep expanding until your ideas have an irresistible life of their own." - Mark Victor Hansen

"There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good." - Tillotson

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self." - Hindu proverb

"You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you."~Charles Allen

"Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine." - Kathleen Norris

"Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are." - Houssaye

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - G. K. Chesterton

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be & you will help them become what they r capable of becoming."~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?" - A. C. Jolly

"Conscience is God's presence in man." - Emanuel Swedenborg

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." - Elvis Presley

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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Sally Berger

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." - Chinese Proverb

"Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday."~John Wayne

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."~Carl Sandburg

"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."~Lady Bird Johnson

"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view."~Wilma Askinas

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"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them."~Charles C. West

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."~Moshe Dayan

"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless."~Mary Kay Ash

"How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet."~Catharina Elisabetha Goethe

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."~Lucy Larcom

BE THANKFUL...

I received this amazing poem below on gratitude and thankfulness from my friend Coach-Stoney over at transformation.com ( http://ping.fm/LFnUW ) and it reminded me of the great joy that comes from living a life based in this way. The true joy that comes from being thankful is amazing. It is so easy to be thankful for the good stuff, but it is the more challenging things in our life that give us even more joy when we find a way to be thankful for them too. How we respond to the challenges in our lives ultimately decides the outcome and results. Respond with gratitude and an open heart that there is something great coming. I am thankful every day that I have the opportunity to learn more and create more in this amazing world that we live in. I take everything as it comes with full personal responsibility and use each challenge as a lesson to teach me and allow me to grow to something new. I am thankful for all that I have and especially the relationships that I have created with others. In these relationships I grow so much and get inspired to give back even more. Thank all of you for your friendship, I really appreciate it and value it from my heart. Go out and face your challenges today head on! It is when we move through them to the other side that we will experience true joy, happiness and success in our lives. Have a fantastic day! Enjoy! God Bless.

BE THANKFUL

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times you grow.
Be thankful for the limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.
It's easy to be thankful for good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."~Golda Meir

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."~Epictetus

"Our only security is our ability to change."~John Lilly

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"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."~Allophones Karr

"Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment."~(As A Man Thinketh)

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."~Arnold Glasgow

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."~Billie Jean King

"You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail."~Hank Aaron

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness."~Ralph W. Sockman

"All the resources we need are in our mind."~Theodore Roosevelt

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"If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time."~Anna Neagle

"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards."~Soren Kierkegaard

"I like to train. I enjoy challenges, but most of all I like winning."~Sugar Ray Leonard

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."~Pele

"The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness."~Johnny Majors

"Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated."~Roger Staubach

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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time, for that’s the stuff Life is made of."~Benjamin Franklin

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"Slow down, simplify, and be kind."~Naomi Judd

"You can’t do it unless you can imagine it."~George Lucas

"Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post."~D. W. Williams

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."~Walter Elliot

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm."~Abraham Lincoln

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"Chance favors the prepared mind."~Louis Pasteur

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"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show."~Mignon McLaughlin

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would limit the human spirit."~Stephen Hawking

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."~Lorraine Hansberry

"The most important work you and I ever do will be within the walls of our own homes."~Harold B. Lee

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."~Albert Einstein

"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."~Merry Browne

"Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed."~Mia Hamm

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"No man is free who is not a master of himself."~Epictetus

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears."~Rudyard Kipling

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"If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet."~Arnot L. Sheppard

"Trust thyself."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All the mistakes I ever made in my life where when I wanted to say No, and said Yes."~Moss Hart

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."~Henry Ford

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."~Norman Vincent Peale

"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride over all obstacles, and win the race!"~Charles Dickens

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."~Mark Russell

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life."~Sandra Carey

"Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball."~Mitzi Chandler

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."~Stephen Vizinczey

Sometimes not being in control is the most beautiful thing in the world....

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."~William James

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."~James Oppenheim

"Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill."~Elsa Schiaparelli

"If you want a life with no bumps, you'll never learn how to take your lumps."~Kent Krive

"The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have."~Leonard Nimoy

"I am not a has-been. I am a will be."~Lauren Bacall

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."~Sally Field

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others."~Sonya Friedman

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."~Ellen Goodman

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."~Les Brown

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."~Louisa May Alcott

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."~Wendy Wasserstein

"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs."~Dan Zadra

"Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness."~Ram Dass

"Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown."~Author Unknown

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies."~Roderick Thorp

"If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."~Author Unknown

"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."~Michel de Montaigne

"Never dull your shine for somebody else." ~Tyra Banks

"Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle."~Marilyn Monroe

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."~Deepak Chopra

"Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices."~Margaret Jensen

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."~Henry David Thoreau

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."~Alistair Cooke

"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others."~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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"To achieve great things you have first to believe it."~Arsene Wenger

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."~Norman Vincent Peale

"Success is the ability to fullfill your desires with effortless ease"~Deepak Chopra

"Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have."~David Myers

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."~Frank Lloyd Wright

"It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in.""~Washington Gladden

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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."~Pablo Picasso

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."~Nicholas Murray Butler

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"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan. You should wear it inside, where it functions best."~Margaret Thatcher

"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."~Kahlil Gibran

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."~Thomas Fuller

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."~Helen Keller

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."~Peter T. Mcintyre

"Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."~Norman Vincent Peale

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"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."~Edmund Hillary

"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."~Henry Ford

"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours."~Richard Bach

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"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."~Author Unknown

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."~Brian Tracy

@MarkVHansen My pleasure Mark. Keep up the great work of spreading great leadership and inspiration in the world. God Bless!

@SteveRamirez Thanks for the RT. Have a great day! Cheers!

@shacri Thanks for the RT. Have a great day! Cheers!

@1macbeth Thanks for the RT. Have a great day! Cheers!

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."~Samuel Johnson

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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."~Anna Freud

"In the case of good books, the point is not 2 see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through 2 u."~Mortimer J Adler

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."~Nicholas Murray Butler

"Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."~Doug King

If there are challenges in our lives then there maybe a place where we are lacking in wisdom. Take a look at the roots.

"Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end."~Unknown

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Lack of wisdom in our life can cause all kinds of challenges. Have you experienced this in your life?

"Don’t let go of the vine."~Johnny Weissmuller

"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."~Woody Allen

Be careful how you measure TRUE wisdom. What does wisdom mean to you?

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Wisdom is a lifestyle. How are you living a life of wisdom today?

"Write a goal every single month to eliminate a mess from your life, and when you do - abundance will come in."~Raymond Aaron

Take a look at the fruit you are eating in your life and work backwards to find the roots and identify the seeds.

Out of the overflow of the mouth the heart speaks.

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."~Steve Bartkowski

Live within wisdom. If we don't like the fruit we are eating, check the seeds we are sowing.

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."~Usula K. LeGuin

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Love one another no matter what. Live in harmony with each other.

"Goals are for a lifetime. They are our voluntary, yet mandatory assignment."~Mark Victor Hansen

When your relationships are bad, life is bad. When your relationships are good, life is good! It's all about relationships.

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time."~Oprah Winfrey

Seek to understand rather than seek to be heard.

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"Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end."~Unknown

How do you know when you are making a wise decision?

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."~Anais Nin

Choose today to live a life style of wisdom in all that you do!

RT @justynalam RT @worldprayr: RT @caleb_moore: Please pray for my friend Kelly (@kellythp) and her dad who just had a stroke. Prayer works

"You got to be hungry!"~Les Brown

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."~Thomas Carlyle

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."~Doug Floyd

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."~Albert Einstein

"The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them."~Unknown

"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else!"~Lawrence "Yogi" Berra

"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

RT @Randy_Gage: #FF Some engaging people that get Twitter to follow: @LorenaHeletea @RachelHenke @CourtneyEngle @PaulSchwend (thank you!)

RT @kevin_irwin: As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.- Henry Ford

RT @Power2BThin: "Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." Mary Kay Ash #quote

RT @Power2BThin: RT @SteveRamirez RT @seishindojo: The greatest teachers do not give lessons, they provide experiences - (via @Nurul54)

RT @ryanbiddulph: RT @cityspur RT @UnderTheBar: Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. -Confucius

RT @Power2BThin: "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." Andre Gide #quote

RT @BobHowardMktg: I would rather have one percent of 100 people?s efforts than 100 percent of my own. ? Andrew Carnegie

RT @IvelinaB: RT@katiefreiling YOU are an unlimited being... Anything you focus your intentions on and pour your heart into you will create!

RT @KaylaSaphira: "To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer." "Keith Degreen"

"If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one."~Mark Twain

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."~Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."~Ben Johnson

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."~Japanese Proverb

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful and amazing wife Julie. Thanks for 10 great years. I look forward to many many more to come. You are the love of my life and I am grateful.

"If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one."~Mark Twain

"If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one."~Mark Twain

"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."~John Wanamaker

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."~Mark Twain

"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head."~Jack Nicklaus

""You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."~Rabindranath Tagore

RT @ryanbiddulph: Action without inspiration equals too much perspiration.

RT @ryanbiddulph: If a person never takes inspired action they should look for a new line of work.

RT @ryanbiddulph: Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others. ~William Allen White

RT @ryanbiddulph: God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey

RT @ryanbiddulph: The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus

RT @ryanbiddulph: RT @dennismiller55 Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~Mother Teresa

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule."~Earl Nightingale

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere."~Christopher Reeve

"Opportunities are like sunrises - if you wait too long, you miss them."~William Arthur Ward

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."~Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."~Maya Angelou

"You never lighten the load for others until you've first felt the pressure in your own soul."~Alan Redpath

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."~Benjamin Disraeli

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."~Frank Leahy

RT @LillyAnn: “It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.” — Addison Walker

"If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."~Jane Goodall

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit."~Aristotle

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."~Benjamin Franklin

"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."~Trina Paulus

"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."~Mahatma Gandhi

"The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others."~Bob Perks

"You can do it if you believe you can!"~Napoleon Hill

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."~Mother Teresa

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."~Dr. Robert Anthony

"To think that you are not going to fail is an illusion.
Fail faster, you will only be closer to what you want."~UNKNOWN

"Inches make champions."~Vince Lombardi

"Experience is what we attend to."~William James

"When the tide comes in you get to see who's been swimming naked."~Warren Buffet

"Shift from stagnation to innovation and you can't help but lead."~Robin Sharma

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."~Mark Twain