Mystery of the Mind - YouTube

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Roundtable discussion featuring Gianfranco Basti, Ned Block, Richard Haier, Joseph LeDoux, Patrick McGrath, and Craig Piers.

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The Truth About Vitamins

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The Truth About Vitamins (2004)
Are vitamins doing us any good? Could they even be dangerous?

Every year we spend £300 million on vitamin supplements, but do they actually do us any good? Some believe they offer the promise of preventing or even curing some of the world's biggest killers, such as heart disease and cancer. Others claim that taking large doses of some vitamins may in certain cases be harmful. So what are the facts?

Vitamin C, the most popular of them all
Nearly 40 years ago, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and double Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling, revolutionised the way people thought about vitamins. He claimed that by taking huge doses of vitamin C you could prevent or even cure the common cold.

He predicted that if everybody followed his advice, the common cold could even be eradicated. Many scientists dismissed his theory as quackery, but the public loved it and it helped launch a huge industry. But the latest evidence shows the great man was mistaken. Vitamin C can help you once have got a cold, but for most people it does nothing to prevent you from catching one in the first place.

Even if large doses of vitamin C do not prevent the common cold, some claim that it can still offer a more profound benefit. It is one of a group of vitamins called anti-oxidants that some believe can prevent illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease.

Too much of a good thing?
In 2004, scientists in the United States claimed that people could be missing any of the potential benefits of taking one of the world's most popular anti-oxidant vitamin supplements, vitamin E, because their bodies might not be absorbing it. But our own investigation suggested that the American scientists' conclusion could be mistaken.

While most safety experts believe that vitamins C and E can be taken safely even in quite large doses, there is worrying evidence that one form of another common vitamin, vitamin A, could be linked to osteoporosis, a debilitating bone disease.

If the theory is right it means that a person's diet, or some supplements that they take every day to improve their health, could actually be slowly and silently weakening their bones

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AGAIN: All red meat is bad for you !!!

All red meat is bad for you, new study says - latimes.com

A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death.

Eating any amount and any type of red meat increases the risk of premature death, a new study says.


By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
March 12, 2012


Eating red meat — any amount and any type — appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a long-range study that examined the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults for more than 20 years.

For instance, adding just one 3-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat — picture a piece of steak no bigger than a deck of cards — to one's daily diet was associated with a 13% greater chance of dying during the course of the study.
 
Even worse, adding an extra daily serving of processed red meat, such as a hot dog or two slices of bacon, was linked to a 20% higher risk of death during the study.

"Any red meat you eat contributes to the risk," said An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study, published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Crunching data from thousands of questionnaires that asked people how frequently they ate a variety of foods, the researchers also discovered that replacing red meat with other foods seemed to reduce mortality risk for study participants.

Eating a serving of nuts instead of beef or pork was associated with a 19% lower risk of dying during the study. The team said choosing poultry or whole grains as a substitute was linked with a 14% reduction in mortality risk; low-fat dairy or legumes, 10%; and fish, 7%.

Previous studies had associated red meat consumption with diabetes, heart disease and cancer, all of which can be fatal. Scientists aren't sure exactly what makes red meat so dangerous, but the suspects include the iron and saturated fat in beef, pork and lamb, the nitrates used to preserve them, and the chemicals created by high-temperature cooking.

The Harvard researchers hypothesized that eating red meat would also be linked to an overall risk of death from any cause, Pan said. And the results suggest they were right: Among the 37,698 men and 83,644 women who were tracked, as meat consumption increased, so did mortality risk.

In separate analyses of processed and unprocessed meats, the group found that both types appear to hasten death. Pan said that at the outset, he and his colleagues had thought it likely that only processed meat posed a health danger.

Carol Koprowski, a professor of preventive medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine who wasn't involved in the research, cautioned that it can be hard to draw specific conclusions from a study like this because there can be a lot of error in the way diet information is recorded in food frequency questionnaires, which ask subjects to remember past meals in sometimes grueling detail.

But Pan said the bottom line was that there was no amount of red meat that's good for you.

"If you want to eat red meat, eat the unprocessed products, and reduce it to two or three servings a week," he said. "That would have a huge impact on public health."

A majority of people in the study reported that they ate an average of at least one serving of meat per day.


Pan said that he eats one or two servings of red meat per week, and that he doesn't eat bacon or other processed meats.

Cancer researcher Lawrence H. Kushi of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland said that groups putting together dietary guidelines were likely to pay attention to the findings in the study.

"There's a pretty strong supposition that eating red meat is important — that it should be part of a healthful diet," said Kushi, who was not involved in the study. "These data basically demonstrate that the less you eat, the better."

UC San Francisco researcher and vegetarian diet advocate Dr. Dean Ornish said he gleaned a hopeful message from the study.

"Something as simple as a meatless Monday can help," he said. "Even small changes can make a difference."

Additionally, Ornish said, "What's good for you is also good for the planet."

In an editorial that accompanied the study, Ornish wrote that a plant-based diet could help cut annual healthcare costs from chronic diseases in the U.S., which exceed $1 trillion. Shrinking the livestock industry could also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and halt the destruction of forests to create pastures, he wrote. 




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Opinion: Singing the blues about red meat

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face - YouTube

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face - YouTube: "http://youtu.be/1bnzVjOJ6NM"

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

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 Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well

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Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network


Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Early Death


By Katherine Harmon | March 12, 2012








Steak image courtesy of iStockphoto/Kativ

Over the years, eating too many burgers, steaks pork chops or other red meat products has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. In particular, processed red meat, such as bacon, hot dogs or bologna, has especially strong links to chronic diseases.

But the latest research brings even more dire news for hardcore carnivores. In addition to increasing the odds people will get sick, red meat—whether it is processed or not—can actually increase the risk of premature death overall, according to a study that was published online March 12 in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Researchers, led by An Pan of the Harvard School of Public Health, analyzed health and diet information from more than 121,000 U.S. men and women participating in two long-term health studies. Everyone in the group the researchers assessed had been free of both heart disease and cancer at the outset of the studies.

Over long-term follow-up, as long as 28 years in some cases, more than 13,900 people died—about 9,460 from cancer and almost 6,000 from cardiovascular disease. After adjusting for other factors, the researchers found each daily serving of red meat (beef, pork, lamb or a processed meat, such as bacon, bologna, hot dog, salami or sausage), increased the risk of a premature death by about 12 percent. Processed meat consumption in particular increased these odds even more than did unprocessed meats. And hot dogs and bacon seemed to be the most likely to lead to an early death.

If everyone in the study had limited themselves to 42 grams or less of red meat a day (considered to be about half a standard serving), more than 9,860 early diet-related deaths could have been prevented in the study alone, the researchers estimated.

So if that lamb and ham are off the table, along with all the all-too familiar beef, many people worry that they might not get enough protein with each meal. Fear not, say many health experts, there are plenty of other ways to put protein on your plate that don’t come with such high risks of chronic diseases. Chicken breasts actually have more grams of protein by weight than a piece of beef, and fish isn’t too far behind. The researchers also found that beans, nuts, low-fat dairy and whole grains made for healthful replacements for a red meat meal portion.

And for folks worried about getting enough iron, excess iron from diet has actually been linked to heart attacks and fatal heart disease as well as possibly to cancer, the researchers noted.

Getting to a healthful level of red meat consumption in the U.S. might be an uphill battle. Only about 9.6 percent of the women and 22.8 percent of the men in the studies fell in the low-risk category (of a half-serving-or-less per day) for red-meat consumption.

But contrary to popular thinking, a good diet is as much about what you put in to your mouth as what you omit.

The study found that trading out a serving of red meat for fish or poultry didn’t just negate the red meat risk; rather, it actually improved people’s odds of living longer. Replacing a serving of red meat each day with fish reduced premature mortality risk by 7 percent; for poultry, the reduction was twice that: 14 percent.

Veggies are even better. “Plant-based foods are rich in phytochemicals, bioflavonoids and other substances that are protective,” wrote whole-food diet advocate Dean Ornish in a related essay also published online Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. “So substituting healthier foods for red meat provides a double benefit to our health.”

Ornish noted that the focus for a healthful diet should be on high-quality over high-quantity: “smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods.” In addition, he highlights current research-based suggestions for the healthiest diet:
Little to no red meat; instead obtain protein from poultry, fish, legumes, nuts or other products
Plenty of good, whole-food carbohydrates, such as whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables
Little processed or refined carbohydrates, such as white flour, sugar or corn syrup
Some good fats, such as omega three fatty acids that are in flax and fish oils
Little bad fats, such as hydrogenated, saturated or trans fats

Another benefit to cutting red meat consumption: dialing back out-of-control medical costs, Ornish noted. Avoiding chronic diseases linked to excess red meat consumption could decrease medical spending by billions of dollars.


About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences. Follow on Twitter @katherineharmon.

More Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein


The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it: --Plutarch


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Lao Tzu


The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. - Giovanni Ruffini


Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The only thing stopping you bringing Heaven to earth is your imagination & your willingness to Love all as God does.

Do not look behind you. Do not regret mistakes, but be thankful for every experience: White Eagle



Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself: 
--Robert Collier



To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God: Meister Eckhart


Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. - Robert Louis Stevenson


Do more than believe:- practice. - William Arthur Ward


The people who matter will recognise who you are. - Alan Cohen



You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. - Warren Buffett



Love flowers after the spring time of self acceptance, after the winter that takes away the overgrown thoughts of the past.


Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. - William James

Turn your back on pain & misery & embrace love as a way of life, the only miracle cure.
-- Dalai Lama ‏
HHDL during the Jataka Tales teaching held at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India, on March


Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts & in every living being: 
-- Swami Vivekananda



Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. - Teilhard de Chardin


The are no shortcuts to a happy relationship, the only way is through the heart of friendship.


We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated: Maya Angelou




Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau


Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo. - Dr. Sara Jordan


Know well what leads you forward & what hold you back, & choose the path that leads to wisdom:
-- Buddha


You can do it if you believe you can! - Napoleon Hill


Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles F. Kettering

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. - Anthony J. DAngelo


He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West


Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true:
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston


Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect:.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson





Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values. - Dalai Lama


Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself:
-- Hermann Hesse



He that does good to another does good also to himself: -- Seneca


We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration & survival: Winston Churchill


The more adept we are in cultivating altruism, the happier we will be and the better the atmosphere we will create around us.


How wise is he, who has learned to discriminate, between what to say and what to leave unsaid:

-- White Eagle

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More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."
— Anthony Robbins

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
— Dale Carnegie

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping."
— Dale Carnegie

"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."
— Dale Carnegie

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
— Dale Carnegie

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
— Dale Carnegie

"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

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
— Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
— Dale Carnegie

"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."
— Dale Carnegie

"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."
— Deepak Chopra

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."
— Deepak Chopra

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
— Napoleon Hill

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
— Napoleon Hill

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."
— Napoleon Hill

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
— Napoleon Hill

"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
— Napoleon Hill

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
— Zig Ziglar

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
— Zig Ziglar

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
— Zig Ziglar

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
— Zig Ziglar

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
— Zig Ziglar

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."
— Zig Ziglar

"If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
— Zig Ziglar

"Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther."
— Zig Ziglar

Quotes 9

"There are never enough I Love You's."
— Lenny Bruce

"Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre."
— Chet Atkins

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
— Dale Carnegie

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
— Warren Buffett

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
— Dale Carnegie

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
— Warren Buffett

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. "
— Dale Carnegie

"To work is to feel alive."
— Tony Bennett

"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by."
— Lou Holtz

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
— Larry Bird

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
— Lou Holtz

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
— Napoleon Hill

"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
— Larry Bird

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."
— Napoleon Hill

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
— John Cage

"How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%."
— Vic Conant

"If you’ve had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you’ve achieved."
— Vic Conant

"Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees."
— Tom Gegax

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
— Dale Carnegie

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
— Dale Carnegie

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
— Johnny Cash

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
— Marie Curie

"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."
— Richard J. Daley

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
— Miles Davis

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
— Claude Debussy

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."
— Jack Dempsey

"Peace is a conscious choice."
— John Denver

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
— Princess Diana

"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back."
— Princess Diana

"I am realistic - I expect miracles. "
— Wayne Dyer

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
— Wayne Dyer

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
— John Foster Dulles

"I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success."
— Buddy Ebsen

"Reject hatred without hating."
— Mary Baker Eddy

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."
— Marian Wright Edelman

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
— Marian Wright Edelman

"If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelet."
— Anthony Eden

"Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!"
— Thomas A. Edison

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
— Duke Ellington

"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
— Epictetus

"No great thing is created suddenly. "
— Epictetus

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
— Medgar Evers

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."
— Harvey S. Firestone

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
— Ella Fitzgerald

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe."
— Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."
— Jon Kabat-Zinn

"We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become."
— David R. Hawkins

"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all."
— David R. Hawkins

"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are."
— David R. Hawkins

"Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us."
— Stuart Wilde

"Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice."
— Stuart Wilde

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow"
— Robert Kiyosaki

"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most"
— Robert Kiyosaki

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."
— Maxwell Maltz

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
— Marianne Williamson

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present."
— Marianne Williamson

"The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment."
— Marianne Williamson

"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
— Anthony Robbins

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
— Anthony Robbins

"There's always a way - if you're committed."
— Anthony Robbins

"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."
— Anthony Robbins

quotes 8

"Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths."
— Lu Yen

"Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin."
— Saadi

"Chase your passion, not your pension."
— Denis Waitley

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
— Saint Francis of Assisi

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
— Denis Waitley

"Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny."
— Carl Schurz

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit."
— Robert Shaffer

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
— Denis Waitley

"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles."
— William Penn

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."
— John A. Simone Jr

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic."
— Jean Sibelius

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
— George Bernard Shaw

"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."
— Townes Van Zandt

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare

"Without deviation progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other."
— Donald G. Smith

"Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially."
— David Bach

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
— Zig Ziglar

"Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit."
— Andrei Sakharov

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
— Carl Sandburg

"The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I’m stunned by how many people are actually not rich."
— David Bach

"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."
— May Sarton

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."
— Brian Tracy

"Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects."
— Sima Qian

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

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."
— Sally Ride

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
— Wayne Dyer

"Don't let other people tell you what you want."
— Pat Riley

"Only the insecure strive for security."
— Wayne Dyer

"A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on."
— Tom Morris

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
— Tony Robbins

"In imagination, there's no limitation."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."
— Maxwell Maltz

"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone."
— Maxwell Maltz

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. "
— Deepak Chopra

"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become."
— Maxwell Maltz

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. "
— Deepak Chopra

"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior."
— Maxwell Maltz

"Be smart, be intelligent and be informed."
— Tony Alessandra

"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."
— Marilyn Manson

"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."
— Sir John Templeton

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind."
— Bob Marley

"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
— Les Brown

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
— Isaac Newton

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
— Les Brown

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
— Isaac Newton

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

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
— Saul Bellow

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. "
— Michael E. Gerber

"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."
— Les Brown

"Honor your commitments with integrity."
— Les Brown

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
— Anthony Robbins

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
— Les Brown

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
— Denis Waitley

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. "
— Denis Waitley

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
— Les Brown

"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence. "
— Denis Waitley

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
— Les Brown

"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original."-- Roy Acuff

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— Franklin P. Jones

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
— Erica Jong

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
— Erica Jong

"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."
— Michael Jordan

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
— James Joyce

"He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside awakens."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience."
— Philippe Kahn

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."
— Nikos Kazantzakis

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
— Sam Keen

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
— Helen Keller

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
— Donald Kendall

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Don't agonize, organize."
— Florynce Kennedy

"Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple."
— David Keuck

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."
— John Maynard Keynes

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Intellectuals solves problems, geniuses prevent them."
— Albert Einstein

"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips."
— Elsa Lanchester

"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
— Georges Louis Leclerc

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!"
— Clive Staples Lewis

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"
— Vince Lombardi

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
— Vince Lombardi

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
— Vince Lombardi

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
— Jack London

"Man is a universe within himself."
— Bob Marley

"Twenty YEARS from now you will be more DISAPPOINTED by the things you DIDN'T do then by the ONES you did. So throw off the BOWLINES, sail away from this safe HARBOR, catch the trade WINDS in your SAILS. EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER."
— Mark Twain

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
— Abraham Maslow

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
— Henri Matisse

"...society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
— Mignon McLaughlin

"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
— Archibald McLeish

"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil."
— The Prophet Mohammad

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."
— Claude Monet

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
— James Douglas Morrison

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
— Keith Rupert Murdoch

"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf."
— Native American Proverb

"The unconscious is our best collaborator."
— Mike Nichols

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
— Richard M. Nixon

"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures."
— Charles C. Noble

"Education is a vaccine for violence."
— Edward James Olmos

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
— Satchel Paige

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
— Thomas Paine

"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.’"
— Dave Parnas

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Blaise Pascal

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."
— Louis Pasteur

"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams."
— Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come."
— Perry Paxton

"Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible."
— James W. Pence

"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
— H. Ross Perot

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
— Plato

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
— Alexander Pope

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
— Pope John XXIII

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
— John Powell

"The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."
— Colin Powell

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes."
— Wolfgang Puck

"There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them."
— Mario Puzo

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
— G. Randolf

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
— Nancy Reagan

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
— Carl Sandburg

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
— Carl Sandburg

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
— Michael Althsuler

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
— Ambrose Redmoon

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
— Christopher Reeve

"Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it."
— Wilhelm Reich

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
— Jules Renard

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
— Eddie Rickenbacker

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
— John D. Rockefeller

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
— Will Rogers

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well."
— Joseph Ross

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people."
— Leo Rosten

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
— Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."
— Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
— David Russell

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."
— Rosalyn S. Yalow

"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men."
— Saadi

"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing."
— Richard Yates

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"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

"What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself."
— Robin Cook

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
— Henry B. Adams

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
— John Quincy Adams

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."
— Joseph Addison

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
— Stella Adler

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
— Aesop

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
— Muhammad Ali

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
— Dante Alighieri

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
— Thomas Alva Edison

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
— Minna Antrim

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
— Aristotle

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."
— Byrd Baggett

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
— James Baldwin

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
— Bruce Barton

"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
— John Beecher

"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
— Warren G. Bennis

"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."
— Bible, Proverbs 16:24

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
— Paul Boese

"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
— Daniel Boorstin

"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."
— Win Borden

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
— The Buddha

"Patience will achieve more than force."
— Edmund Burke

"Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them."
— Leo Burnett

"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
— John Cage

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
— Michael Caine

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
— Charles Caleb Colton

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
— Confucius

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
— Calvin Coolidge

"Spend some time alone every day."
— The Dalai Lama

"Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it."
— Salvador Dali

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
— Anne Dillard

"Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died."
— John Dretschmer

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
— Bruce Springsteen

"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Great spirits have always faced violent protest from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

"It is never to late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
— Euripides

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
— Bruce Feirstein

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
— Henry Ford

"You exist only in what you do."
— Federico Fellini

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
— Brendan Francis

"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
— Jameson Frank

"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
— Fernando Flores

"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated.... To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality."
— Ellen Glasgow

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
— Arnold Glasow

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
— Vincent van Gogh

"Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny."
— Kamran Hamid

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

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
— Sydney J. Harris

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Give me liberty or give me death."
— Patrick Henry

"Nothing is permanent but change."
— Heraclitus

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
— Don Herold

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
— Eric Hoffer

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
— Robert Hughes

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
— Victor Hugo

"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."
— Thomas Henry Huxley

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
— Eugene Ionesco

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
— John Irving

"To be loved, you must be lovable."
— Italian Proverb

"In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely."
— H. Jackson Brown

"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking"
— William James

"If you believe everything you read, you better not read."
— Japanese Proverb

"Fall down seven times; stand up eight times."
— Japanese Proverb

"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
— Thomas Jefferson

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
— Pope John Paul II

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

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." — Franklin P. Jones

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"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
— Frederick Douglass

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

""I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders."
— George P. Burnham

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but is has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
— Helen Keller

"Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
— Leo F. Buscaglia

"The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning."
— Jack Welch

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. "
— Thomas Jefferson

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it. "
— Karl Marx

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."
— Irving Berlin

"The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help others."
— Albert Schweitzer

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"People with small minds talk about other people. People with average minds talk about events. People with great minds talk about ideas "
— Anonymous

"Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!"
— Josh S. Hinds

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation."
— Arthur Ashe

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines."
— Gary Sinise

"Success is never permanent, and failure is never final."
— Mike Ditka

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
— Nelson Mandela

"Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that – at least in the early days -- you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts."
— John Cummuta

"The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality."
— Ronald Reagan

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
— Dale Carnegie

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
— Napoleon Hill

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
— Pablo Picasso

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
— Conrad Hilton

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
— Woodrow Wilson

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it."
— Vince Lombardi

"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision."
— Ronald Reagan

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
— African Proverb

"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."
— Robert De Niro

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
— Mother Teresa

"There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. "
— Sun Tzu

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
— Thomas Wolfe

"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
— Vince Lombardi

"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity."
— William Menninger

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
— Anne Frank

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer."
— Army Corp of Engineers

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
— Arthur Ashe

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
— Colin Powell

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
— Satchel Paige

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
— Richard M. Nixon

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
— Ralph Nader

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one."
— Benjamin Franklin

"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
— William Wordsworth

"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
— Deepak Chopra

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
— Henry Ford

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
— Warren Buffett

"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."
— Bible, Proverbs 15:1

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things, which renew humanity."
— The Buddha

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Nurture great thoughts for you cannot go higher than your thoughts."
— Benjamin Disraeli

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— Leo Buscaglia

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
— Aldous Huxley

"I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
— Mike Todd

"The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them."
— David Seabury

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
— John Wooden

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
— Lloyd Jones

"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise…"
— Bible, Proverbs 13:20

"If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it."
— Zenrin

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."
— Miguel de Cervantes

"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being…"
— Orison Swett Marden

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
— Chinese Proverb

"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success…"
— John Keats

"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder…"
— Paul J. Meyer

"Some defeats are only installments to victory."
— Jacob A. Riis

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
— William Connor Magee

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
— Thomas A. Edison

"To win…you’ve got to stay in the game…"
— Claude M. Bristol

"You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot do."
— Ben Stein

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
— Robert Collier

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it – as long as you really believe a 100 percent."
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart."
— Orison Swett Marden

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
— James Broughton

"Our aspirations are our possibilities"
— Robert Browning

"We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
— Denis Waitley

"I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objectives. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man."
— Charles M. Schwab

"Life…can only be understood backwards…"
— Soren Kierkegaard

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
— Winston Churchill

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. "
— Adlai Stevenson

"Knowing that you have complete control of your thinking you will recognize the power…"
— Mikhail Strabo

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
— William James

"You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself."
— W. Clement Stone

"You are where you are today because you’ve chosen to be there."
— Harry Browne

"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us."
— Parks Cousins

"What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside."
— Earl Nightingale

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
— Andrew Carnegie

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
— Oliver Goldsmith

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done."
— David Lloyd George

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
— John Locke

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot have success without the failures."
— H. G. Hasler

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."
— Napoleon Hill

"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."
— Vash Young

"A stumble may prevent a fall."
— Thomas Fuller

"View every problem as an opportunity…"
— Joseph Sugarman

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim."
— John D. Rockefeller

"You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided."
— General George S. Patton

"Concentration, in its truest, unadulterated form, means being able to focus the mind on one single solitary thing."
— Komar

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
— Albert Einstein

"Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something…hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."
— Roger Staubach

"Be Prepared!"
— Boy Scout Motto

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets."
— Nido Qubein

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
— Alexander Graham Bell

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
— Winston Churchill

"Time is the wisest counselor."
— Pericles

"For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead…"
— Thomas Jefferson

"Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are."
— Vernon Howard

"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."
— Malcolm X

"A man’s own self is his friend, a man’s own self is his foe."
— Bhagavad-gita

"Habit is stronger than reason."
— George Santayana

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
— Benjamin Franklin

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope for advance."
— Orville Wright

"A man masters nature not by force but by understanding."
— Jacob Bronowski

"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..."
— W. Clement Stone

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
— Napoleon Hill

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."
— Plato

"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."
— Socrates

"If not you, then who? If not now, then when? "
— Hillel

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

"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

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. "
— Lou Holtz

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
— Lao Tzu

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
— Wayne Dyer

"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not."
— Italian Proverb

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
— Chief Seattle

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age."
— Ronald Reagan

"If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools."
— Martin Luther King

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
— Indira Gandhi

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
— Napoleon Hill

"Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
— Vince Lombardi

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
— Ray Kroc

"As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him."
— Jean Paul Richter

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

"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
— Jameson Frank

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
— Helen Keller

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— Colin Powell

"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing."
— Ed Foreman

"A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow."
— General George S. Patton

"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
— Napoleon Hill

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal: Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
— Thomas Jefferson

"It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not."
— Denis Waitley

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
— John F. Kennedy

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."
— David Viscott

"We tend to get what we expect."
— Norman Vincent Peale

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
— John Wooden

"Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
— Peter Drucker

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. "
— Anthony Robbins

"Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it. "
— Virgil

"Creative ideas reside in people’s minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity."
— Alex Osborn

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
— Wayne Dyer

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
— Louis Pasteur

"The one without dreams is the one without wings."
— Muhammad Ali

"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas. If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed."
— Robert Schuller

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
— Katharine Hepburn

"It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth."
— Malcolm Forbes

"I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."
— Mark Twain

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Nelson Mandela

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
— Michael J. Fox

"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time."
— Napoleon Hill

"The more you can dream the more you can do. "
— Michael Korda

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
— Oprah Winfrey

"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do. "
— Jerry Garcia

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak and esteem to all."
— George Washington

"If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain."
— Jimmy Durante

"Accept everything about yourself-I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end-no apologies, no regrets. "
— Clark Moustakas

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
— Marianne Williamson

"Every winner has scars. "
— Herbert N. Casson

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
— Elbert Hubbard

"One needs to be slow to form conviction, but once formed, they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
— Mohandas Gandhi

"Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
— Michael Bartel

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others can not keep it from themselves."
— J.M. Barrie

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."
— Mother Teresa

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."
— William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to. "
— George E. Allen

"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal."
— Mia Hamm

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The key to why things change is the key to everything."
— James Burke

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
— Winston Churchill

"Great hopes make everything great possible."
— Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest potential of control tends to exist at the point where action takes place."
— Louis A. Allen

"Fixing your objective is like identifying the North Star - you sight your compass on it and then use it as the means of getting back on track when you tend to stray."
— Marshall Dimock

"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us. "
— Stephen Covey

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
— Brian Tracy

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
— Julia Sorel

"Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Success is a journey, not a destination."
— Ben Sweetland

"The journey is the reward."
— Taoist Proverb

"There is always room at the top."
— Daniel Webster

"Success is never final."
— Winston Churchill

"What we love we shall grow to resemble."
— Bernard of Clairvaux

"In life, as in chess, forethought wins."
— Charles Buxton

"Do the next thing."
— John Wanamaker

"The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it."
— The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."
— Leo Buscaglia