Knowing is not enough

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Defeat is a state of mind

Defeat is a state of mind, no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Always be yourself, express yourself...

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The doubters said,"Man can not fly,"..

“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”

Try not to become a man of Success..

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Anyone who has never made a mistake...

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein Quote: "Imagination is more iimportant than knowledge..

Everybody is a genius.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid

Be so busy improving yourself..

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

- Chetan Bhagat

Friendship means understanding, not agreement..

Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting...It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.

Don't expect life to be any different if you keep doing...

Don’t expect life to be any different if you keep doing what you’ve always done. Whether you’re in a bad relationship, the wrong job, or a place in your life where you feel stuck, have the courage to shake things up and cut your losses. Free yourself from the regret of the situation you’re in and take a new direction. Stop doing what isn’t working so you can start doing what works.

– Marc Muchnick

Be with people who knows your worth...

Be with people who knows your worth, you don't need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are.

Swami Vivekananda Quote for Personal Excellence

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

- Swami Vivekananda

Some times it's better to keep silent

Sometimes it's better to keep silent than to tell others what you feel because it will only hurt you when you know they can hear you but they can't understand.

If you want to be happy learn to be alone..

If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to learn, things to do and people who can enrich your life.

A best friend is n't just someone..

A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself

Ability is what you're capable of doing.

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

Feeling Unsettled ?

For many at this present time there is a feeling of being unsettled. A feeling that you don’t know if
you are coming or going. A feeling that you don’t have the energy to get started on anything new.
It will please you to hear that there is good reason for these feelings and that you are not alone. For
during this time of transition there is much clearing going on. Many new energies are being sent
down to lighten the load of what is going on. To help ease the path to the new beginnings.
During this time it is not a matter of working hard and feeling success but of letting go. Of letting go
of what you know and letting the truth of you flow. For this is a time where new ideas and creations
will be formed. When new ways of being will become more obvious. These new things cannot be
brought about if you are busying yourself in the old ways. So instead of thinking that you are failing
at what you are doing, just know that you are beginning to grow new seeds. That new growth is
forming.

Allow yourself time to sit in meditation and to feel the new energies that are being sent to you.
Acknowledge the light and feel the brightness as the clearing within you takes place. Be open to
receive information that will help you along your new path.

Find time to enjoy the simple things and be creative. Let go of the need to sweat and toil and just let
your body relax and your mind go. Come from a place of the heart and feel the new love that you
impart.

This is a time of kindness and love, a time of peace and tranquillity, a time of just letting go. Try not
to question what is happening or to force things to begin for things will happen as they are meant to.
Everything is as it is meant to be. The world is finally beginning to set itself free. Free of the
negativity that has been around for so long, so hang on in there and just know that soon you will
dance and new dance and sing a new song.

There is nothing to fear only fear itself. So enjoy your lives and what you have and bring yourself into
better health. Allow body mind and soul to rest from all its toil and to know that all will be revealed
in good time as to what it is that you are to be doing. Most of all be happy, laugh lots and breathe in
fresh air.

Immature people always want to win arguments..

Immature people always want to win an argument, even at the cost of a relationship. Mature people understand that it’s always better to lose an argument and win a relationship.

7 lovely logics of life

1. Make Peace with your Past so it doesn’t spoil your Present.


2. What others Think of you is None of your Business.


3. Time Heals Almost Everything, Give the Time, Some Time.


4. No one is the Reason of your Happiness Except You yourself.


5. Don’t compare your Life with others, You have No Idea what their journey is all about.


6. Stop Thinking too much, It’s alright not to know all the Answers.


7. Smile, you don’t own all the Problems in the World.

 

7 paths to a meaningul life

 

1. Use time wisely and well.


2. Love a lifetime of learning.


3. Nurture your passions


4. Transform shyness into social engagement


5. Remake your image


6. Become a positive deviant


7. Train yourself to become an everyday hero

The Most Successful people learn something new...

The most successful people learn something new everyday. Knowledge is endless and personal growth is continuous - Brooke Griffin

Start Now

What your life is today is a result of what you did…or did not do…yesterday.

If you’re still dreaming instead of creating

If you’re still planning but not implementing

If you’re hesitating because you lack confidence

If you’re holding back in any way…start now

If you want tomorrow to bear different results…start now.

And then one day you will look back and realize you had it in you all along

All you have to do is start now

You have to take the good with the bad..

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you’re sad, love what you’ve got and remember what you had… Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

Life's Challenges are not supposed to paralyze you..

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

Everyone is important

Lonely tree was growing among the hot sands of dead desert. Prickly sands covered the Wood. The Sun mercilessly burned its bark. But the Tree kept on living in spite of all.
Once the Hawk flied over the desert. The Hawk saw the Wood and sat on its branch. He looked around the desert and said:
— You are strange Tree, why do you keep on living among these dead hot sands ? Who needs it?
— You, — the Tree answered.
— Me? — the Hawk was surprised. — I don‘t need you.
— But if not me, — the Tree told, — you would have to sit on the hot sand instead of my branches. If not me, someone, seeing you sitting on the tree alone, would say that nobody needs you, too. And would ask you what do you live for. Sitting on my branches you, Hawk, think that I need you. The Hawk thought about it and had to agree with the Tree. If there was no Tree, the hawk would feel himself alone and useless among this vast desert.

The only person you should try to better..

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday

A man must constantly exceed his level!

This inspiring story is about Bruce Lee, a legendary martial art master.

“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile].

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So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.”

I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-” if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.”

He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles.

Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?”

He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

From The Art of Expressing the Human Body
By Bruce Lee, John Little

The power of determination - Glenn Cunningham (athlete) Story

A true story about athlete Glenn Cunningham who was horribly burned in a schoolhouse fire at the age of 8. Doctors predicted he would never walk again. Determined to walk, Glenn would throw himself off his wheelchair and pull his body across the yard and along a fence. Twenty-two months later, he took his first steps and through sheer determination, learned to run despite the pain…

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The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old-fashioned, pot-bellied coal stove. A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived.

One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse engulfed in flames. They dragged the unconscious little boy out of the flaming building more dead than alive. He had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to a nearby county hospital.

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From his bed the dreadfully burned, semi-conscious little boy faintly heard the doctor talking to his mother. The doctor told his mother that her son would surely die – which was for the best, really – for the terrible fire had devastated the lower half of his body.

But the brave boy didn’t want to die. He made up his mind that he would survive. Somehow, to the amazement of the physician, he did survive. When the mortal danger was past, he again heard the doctor and his mother speaking quietly. The mother was told that since the fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body, it would almost be better if he had died, since he was doomed to be a lifetime cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs.

Once more the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be a cripple. He would walk. But unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just dangled there, all but lifeless.

Ultimately he was released from the hospital. Every day his mother would massage his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. Yet his determination that he would walk was as strong as ever.

When he wasn’t in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. He pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him.

He worked his way to the white picket fence bordering their lot. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, stake by stake, he began dragging himself along the fence, resolved that he would walk. He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence. There was nothing he wanted more than to develop life in those legs.

Ultimately through his daily massages, his iron persistence and his resolute determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk haltingly, then to walk by himself – and then – to run.

He began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run for the sheer joy of running. Later in college he made the track team.

Still later in Madison Square Garden this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run – this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world’s fastest mile**!

Story Told By Burt Dubin,
Developer of Speaking Success System.

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**On June 16, 1934, Glenn Cunningham ran the mile in 4:06.8 minutes, breaking the world’s record. His effort portrays that whatever you want to create in your life is yours for the making. As long as you desire it enough and allow your will to guide you, you can have and be whatever your heart desires. The only one that can put limits on our personal will is ourselves. Develop and encourage your will to create and all the forces of nature within and without will help you bring your desire to pass.

Life Summary:

• 8 years old, was horribly burned in a schoolhouse fire. Doctors predicted he would never walk again.


• 22 months later, took his first steps and through sheer determination, learned to run despite the pain.


• In high school, set records for the mile and later attended Kansas University.


• While at Kansas, refused all scholarship money, preferring to pay his own way.


• By sophomore year, ran the 1,500 meter race at the 1932 Olympics, but finished fourth due to a severe cold.


• By senior year, set a world record for the mile of 4:06.8 and held seven of the top 13 fastest recorded times for the mile.


• In 1936, voted “Most Popular Athlete” by his fellow athletes.


• He went on to earn a master’s degree from University of Iowa and later a doctorate from New York University.


• While in New York, won 21 of 31 races at Madison Square Gardens and set an indoor mile record there in 1938.  His fastest mile time was 4:04.4 at a Dartmouth track meet in 1938.


• When the 1940 Olympics were cancelled, he retired from his running career and taught at Cornell College in Iowa.


• During World War II, he served two years in the Navy.


• Spent the remainder of his life running the Glenn Cunningham Youth Ranch for troubled kids in Kansas, USA.  It is estimated that he and his wife raised around 9,000 kids on their ranch in the years until his death in 1988.

For More Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Cunningham_(athlete)

ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

The Star Thrower

A scientist was walking on the beach. In the distance, he noticed a young man apparently dancing. As he got closer, he realized the man was not dancing. Instead, he was reaching down to pick up starfish and then throwing them into the sea. “Why are you doing that?” he asked. “Because”, the young man answered, “if I don’t, they will die as the tide goes out.” “But there are hundreds of miles of beach and millions of starfish,” said the scientist. “What difference can you make?” The young man picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean, saying, “I can make a difference to that one.”

Unsettled by the experience, yet now knowing the power of one person and one action, the next morning the scientist went to the beach and with the young man threw starfish into the ocean, thinking: “I made a difference to that one.”

Difference between interest and commitment

There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Social comparison is the thief of happiness

Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything.

Don't expect anyone to understand your journey...

Don't expect anyone to understand your journey, especially if they've never had to walk your path

Don't Limit Yourself.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. - Mary Kay Ash

A man is but the product of his...

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.