07/01

You see things; and you say: “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say: “Why not?”
– George Bernard Shaw

Ability is what you’re capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
– Lou Holtz

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
– Janis Joplin

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
– Winston Churchill (thanks to Babette Bensoussan mindshifts.com.au for sending it in)

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
– Benjamin Disraeli

Your destiny isn’t a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice.
– Unknown

Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
– Albert Einstein

There’s always another option.

You can’t stay angry with someone you’re grateful to.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
– Lionel Hampton

If you’ve never thought of quitting then your dreams aren’t big enough

Well behaved women rarely make history
– Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

In marketing, doing one thing will not deliver 100 clients but doing 100 things will deliver 1 client
– Pip McKay

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
– Edmund Burke

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
– Peter Drucker

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focussed on giving of myself and everything that arrived in my life, then I was prosperous.
– Wayne Dyer

The Universe is your servant wishing to fulfil your intentions. To do so it needs clear and specific instructions. How clear are yours?

Do what you love and find a way to get paid for it.

here are two ‘shoulds’ in your life.
The good ones help you on your path of fulfilling your life purpose.
These come from your heart.
The bad ones keep you locked into a life of “quiet desperation”.
These come from your head (and other people).
Which ones are directing you?

Many people proudly say they don’t read fiction.
I think that’s sad.
Non fiction can tell you what is or was
but only fiction can show you what could be.

I don’t always know what I’m talking about but I know I’m right.
– Muhammad Ali

What you expect to happen, happens.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou

We humans have two great problems:
the first is knowing when to begin;
the second is knowing when to stop.
– Paulo Coelho

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
– Shakespeare (Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)

Any day I wake up with a pulse is a good day.
– Neville Brown

The one thing successful people never do – quit
– Bernard Marr

If you can read this – thank a teacher
– Bumper sticker

One day my life will flash before my eyes… I want to make sure it’s something worth watching!
– Margot Morton (Flying Solo)

Sometimes, the only thing people learn from making mistakes is that they can make mistakes.
– Harry Brunner

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
– Sarah Margaret Fuller

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
– Will Rogers

A smile is a curve which straightens things out.

There are only two times: now and too late.
– Anh Do’s father (“The Happiest Refugee”)

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
– Henry Ford

It’s not what you look at that’s important.
It’s what you see.
– Church noticeboard

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
– Albert Einstein

The fact that you plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return are common miracles.
– Unknown

2 GET and 2 GIVE creates 2 many problems.
But… double it:
4 GET and 4 GIVE solves all the problems!!
– Unknown (thanks to Philip Golan for this)

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest
– Benjamin Franklin

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.
– Naomi Wolf

Musturbation: The belief that, in order to be happy, one MUST/SHOULD have, do or be something. 
– Albert Ellis

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
– Douglas Adams

There are 4 types of people. One who says:
“What’s mine is mine & what’s yours is yours” is of average character.
“What’s mine is yours & what’s yours is mine” is ignorant.
“What’s yours is mine & what’s mine is mine” is evil.
“What’s mine is yours & what’s yours is yours” is saintly.
– The Talmud

One way of looking at this might be that for 42 years, I’ve been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience: education and training. And on January 15, the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal.
– Chesley Sullenberger III (Pilot of Flight 1549 Airbus that crashed into the Hudson River and became a hero)

Dreams come true when desire transforms them into concrete action.
– Napoleon Hill

Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don’t regard others as strangers.
– Dalai Lama

There are two types of laws in this world – those made by a higher authority and those made by man. Not until all the laws made by man are consistent with those made by a higher authority will we live in a just world.
– Dr Martin Luther King