Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense.
- F.E. Willard

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- James Buckham

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.
- Mary Blake

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- W.J. Davison

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
US (Hungarian-born) biochemist (1893 - 1986)

If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! Rudyard Kipling

You can't help but get older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- James Freeman Clarke

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Kevin Costner

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoffer

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and

the pessimist the parachute."
Gil Stern

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
- Joseph Joubert

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the
mature than in the young.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles

'Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the United States Marines don't have that problem' ... Ronald Reagan

'If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.' Also by.. Ronald Reagan

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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few

Suzuki, Shunryu

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
- George P. Burnham

Note: " I WILL DO IT" will accomplish the most.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Washington Irving

YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING

You can have anything on earth that you want,
once you mentally accept the fact that you can have it.

If you want to be successful,
begin by thinking of yourself as being successful.
The feeling of being successful has to come first.
If you have a deep inner conviction
that you will always have all that you need,
if you actually feel prosperous, it will be so.

The only thing that stands between you
and what you want from life
is simply the will to pursue it
and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Only your mind sets your limits.

Max Steingart

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
- Marcus Aurelius

Success is connected with continuous action.
It's largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You're not finished when you're defeated,
you're only finished when you quit.

The most important quality essential to success is perseverance.
It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You can have a fresh start any time you choose.
Failure is not in the falling down, but in the staying down.
It's not over until it's over.

If you've got the courage to stick it out, you'll attain your goal.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
Max Steingart

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
- George Sand

In Omnia Paratus (Latin)

In All Things Prepared

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks

Thought For The Day

"A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within."

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."

~T.S. Eliot

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