Quotable Quotes


"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."- Ronald Reagan

"When Injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty ." Thomas Jefferson

"The true solider fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." G.K. Chesterton

Failure: The opportunity to begin again.....with more inteligently  from The Midas Touch, Trump & Kiyosaki

If you don't like change, then you really hate irrelevance!

 

Give your passion the same attention you’d give diarrhea.  Russ Wescott

 

Begin today, so tomorrow you are no longer dreaming, but are achieving.   Don Campbell

 

What are you willing to invest, What are you willing to endure, Whatever it takes!    Terry Paranych

 

Are you willing to be misunderstood in the world, in order to achieve what you really want?   Don Campbell

 

1. Stick it out through difficulties. You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to finish.

2. Stand up for yourself

3. Explain what you need, clearly

4. Ask questions

5. If you don't understand the answer, ask for a better, clearer explanation    Kevin O'Leary

What kind of foot print are you going to leave?  Timberland Shoes

Death is not a great out come if you have done nothing.   Brent Zettl

Usually the biggest demon is not out there. It's what's inside your head.      Rick Hansen

 

If you prevent it, you don’t have to cure it!

 

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.   Willie Nelson

 

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.    John Irving

 

Your goal should be out of reach, but not out of sight.   Anita DeFrantz

Every great dream begins with a dreamer, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world   Harriet Tubman

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.   Eileen Caddy

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

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.    Warren Buffett

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”      ― Aristophanes

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.  Maureen  Dowd

Don’t listen to those who say you’re taking too big a chance. If Michelangelo had, he would have painted the Sistine floor.   Neil Simon

Look at every exit as being an entrance to somewhere else.   Tom Shoppard

To swear off making mistakes is to swear off having new ideas.   Leo Burnett

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.   Amy Tan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.      - Winston Churchill

Envy is the art of counting the other persons blessings instead of our own.   Harold Coffin

Gratitude is riches, Complaint is poverty.   Doris Day

It's only when the tide is out, will you know who's been swimming naked.    Warren Buffett

6 Habits of Highly Un-Effective People   Mary Kanaris
1    Not showing up
2    Procrasting the day away
3   
Focusing on the Un-Important
4    Thinking to Much - Analysis paralysis
5    Always Seeing the Downside
6    Perpetually on Information Overload & Gathering Useless Information

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.     by Viktor E Frankl in Man's Search For Meaning

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of if.    by Spinoza in Ethics?

"Hatred corrodes the vessel in which it is stored."

The only way to get what you want, is to know exactly what you want!

The success we desire for tomorrow will only happen based on the decisions & actions we take today..Patrick Franci

The better you manage your money, the more money you will have to manage..Patrick Franci

It costs more to play than to work. So, if I want to play, I'd better learn to work more effectively.

The rich plan ahaed for three generations, the poor plan ahead for Saturday night..  Patrick Franci

“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.” (Dr. Seuss)

Knowledge combats fear    Peter Kinch

Plan your future & live your life on purpose    Peter Kinch

 

MOTHER TERESA HAD THIS ON HER  WALL

People are often unreasonable and self centered

Forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior  motives.

Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you.

Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous.

Be happy anyway

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.

Be good anyway

Give the best you have, and it may never be enough,

Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end it is between you and God.

It is never between you and them anyway.

 

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."      Cicero  -  55 BC            What have we learned in 2,066 years?

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall  become as corrupt as Europe      Thomas Jefferson
 

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those  who would not.           Thomas Jefferson
 
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A  principle which if acted on would save  one-half the wars of the  world.    Thomas Jefferson
 
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the    people under the pretense of taking care of  them.     Thomas Jefferson
 
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from  too much government.
Thomas Jeffers
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No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.   Thomas Jefferson
 
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in  government.   Thomas Jefferson
 
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of  patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
 

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful  and tyrannical.   Thomas Jefferson
 
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:* “I believe that banking institutions are  more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people  ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,  first by  inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up  around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their  children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."     ~Albert Einstein

The best & most beautiful things can not be seen or touched, they must be felt by your heart. Helen Keller

If you're not practicing, someone else is

Your confidence today will determine your success tomorrow    Philip McKernan

If you are not clear on who you are, your clients will never be     Philip McKernan

It is more socially acceptable to be nive than to tell the truth      Philip McKernan

Success is not about just creating more of the good days, rather it's learning how to handle the crap days    Philip McKernan

You are who you meet    Philip McKernan

Getting to the point in life that you can be truly proud of youself is a Stunning place to be. Become stunning   Philip McKernan

If you make money doing what you love, you will be both mentally & financially weatthy    Philip McKernan

We give ourselves what we feel we deserve      Philip McKernan

You can think as big as you want however if you cannot BELIEVE BIG then you are just passing time     Philip McKernan

When you change the way you look at things, the way you look at things changes         Dwayne Dyer


Efforts & courage are not enough without purpose & direction   John F Kennedy

More people send all their time, money & energy to grow their net worth and don`t place a value on growing their self worth. Ironically the more you grow your self-worth the more your net worth will increase    Philip McKernan

In the absence of clarity, take action     Philip McKernan

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak.....& the instruments of the wise     Samuel Lover

The real winners in life are those look at each situation with the expectation they can make it or they can make it better   Barbra Pletcher

 

Change happens, adapting to change is optional, choose wisely.

It is not the strongest or the smartest that survive, it is those that to adapt to change.   Darwin

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.   Steve Jobs

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.   Albert Einstein

 

The first of all frauds is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that.  Phillip James Bailey

Most people can bear adversity. But, if you wish to know who that person really is, give them power.  Robert Ingersoll

The best index to a persons character is how they treat people that can't do them any good and how they treat those whom can't fight back.   Abigail Van Buren

To keep your character intact, you can not stoop to filthy acts. It makes it much easier to stoop the next time.
   Katherine Hepburn

"A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude."
-Earl Nightingale

If you think the worst & get the worst, you suffer twice. If you think the best & get the worst, you only suffer once!

It is a waste of time to be angry with my disability. One has to get on with life & I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you're always angry or complaining.   Stephen Hawking

'Thoughts,' become words.   'Words,' become actions.   'Actions,' become habits.  'Habits,'  become character.   'Character', becomes YOUR Destiny.

The Future Begins, NOW!

 

It's difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try

All our successes are the same. All our failures, too. We succeed when we do something remarkable. We fail when we give up too soon. We succeed when we are the best in the world at what we do. We fail when we get distracted by tasks we don't have the guts to quit.   Seth Godin (from "The Dip")

Never out think your common sense

"Decide what you want. Decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

~H.L. Hunt

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.   George Burns

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.   Abraham Lincoln

You must get over the past so you can get to the future.   Don Campbell

When it's raining gold, get a bucket, not a thimble      Warren Buffett

If you really want to be positive, no one can stop you!

The only losers in life are those who don't get in the race, fore they never taste victory or defeat.   W Mitchell

It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it.   W Mitchell

"We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are always there for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you." - JEFF WARNER

"So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today."

(Matthew 6:34)

Everything doesn't always work each time but, everything always works out over time.

There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is s miracle. The other is as everything is a miracle.   Albert Einstein

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - MELODY BEATTIE

Service is the price we must pay for living.  Dr Antonia Coello-Novello

Those who take, eat better. Those who give, sleep better.   Dr Antonia Coello-Novello

Suffering is optional.  Dr Antonia Coello-Novello

Savor your victories.  Dr Antonia Coello-Novello

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.    Benjamin Franklin

"Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid."

Christmas: Its the only religious holiday that is also a federal holiday. That way Christians can go to their services and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state.    Samantha Bee

The best answer is action.  by Mike Lipkin

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.   Albert Einstein

They that cannot obey, cannot command.   Benjamin Franklin

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.   Eleanor Roosevelt

The price of greatness is responsibility.   Winston Churchill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.   Napoleon Bonaparte

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit.   Aristotle

It is a kindly act to assist the fallen.   Mother Teresa

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort & convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge & controversy.   Martin Luther King

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of like.   Dalai Lama

A bird doesn't sing because it has and answer, it sings because it has a song.   Maya Angelou

The real leader has no need to lead - they are content to point the way.   Harry Miller

I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave person is not one that does not feel afraid, but one that conquers that  fear.    Nelson Mandela

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

You must be the change you want to see in the world

Be generous without expecting rewards

If you want finish first, first you must finish

Refuse to give yourself a way out and you will find a way through

If failure is not an option then the only possibility is success

Live in the gap, that is between what you can do and what you want to do.

A lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting on it's shoes. Mark Twain

Be your best always & all ways

Courage comes from a very strong will, stubborness comes from a very strong won't!

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Vince Lombardi

When we loose what we took for granted, all we want back is what we took for granted

Control your frustrations because, when you are frustrated, EVERYONE is frustrating.

Life is like a grindstone, it will either grind you down or sharpen you up, whichever happens is your decision.

The door of opportunity will not open unless you do a little pushing

Life is where preparation and opportunity meet. The harder and smarter you work, the luckier you'll get.

If you don't know where you're going, you're already there.

Believing the world owes you something is like believing a bull won't charge you because you're a vegetarian.

TINA: There Is No Alternative

Service is the rent you pay for living.

The only way out is through. Robert Frost

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Beara

 

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.   Sen Alan k Simpson

The Most Expensive Thing You Can Own Is A Closed Mind

The Person Who Says It Can't Be Done
Should Not Interupt The One Doing It

Adversity Is The Creator Of Opportunity

Am I Using My Mental Ability To Make History Or Am I Using It To Merely Record History Made By Others

Every second you dwell on the past, you steal from your future.
Every moment you spend focusing on your problems, you take away from finding solutions.

Integrity: Doing what you said you will do, long after the moment of enthusiam to say it, has passed

Life is like a water-slide, enjoy the ride!

Don't let life get in the way!

You can't change the past but, you can ruin the present by worrying about the future!

Risk winning

Winning is our business

You are your only problem and you are the only solution

You can't push the river

time & money, you can spend both or invest both

Ability is what you are capable of doing
Motivation determines what you do
Attitude determines how you do it           Lois Holtz

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter, that tells what kind of life you've lived

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly

Nothing is easy..but who wants nothing?                   Donald Trump

A mind that expands and gains more knowledge, never returns to it's orignal size          Albert Einstein

What lies before us & what lies behind us are tiny matters, it's what lies inside us that is important
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorance is more expensive than education            Donald Trump

Excuses are not acceptable                                     Donald Trump

Diversification is protection against ignorance           Warren Buffett

I don't think much of a man that isn't any wiser today, than he was yesterday   Abraham Lincon

Chineese Proverb
When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others

Don't let what you can't do,
Interfer with what you can do!              Don R Campbell    REIN

Action is the antidote for despair

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate & connect with  people for the purpose of inspiring & empowering their lives                 Ophra Winfrey

There is no such thing as a rich victum

Ninety-nine % of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses George Washington Carver chemist who discovered 325 uses for the peanut

You only control over 3 things in your life. 1 the thoughts you think 2 the images you visulize 3 the actions you take Jack Cranfield

Yogi Beara    If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there

Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you wantRandy Paush

Africian Proverb
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter if you are a lion or gazelle.
When the sun cames up, you better start running!

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from the future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding solutions    Robin Sharma

Experience is what you get when you don't get want you want   Randy Paush

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.    Joe Paterno

We have met the enemy...and he is us     by Walt Kelly Pogo cartoon strip

LOSS - Lesson On Severe Stupidity

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm    Winston Churchill

Nothing kills your great ideas more than people with small ideas and limited imaginations! Robert Kiyosaki

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds        Albert Einstein

When you want what you've never had, you must do what you've never done

Don't argue with people who ask for advise but don't want the advise you're giving them. End the discussion immediately & go on minding your own business!                        Robert Kiyosaki's rich dad

Unsuccessful people find their strenghts & spend their lives making their strenghts stronger, often ignoring their weaknesses, until one day their weaknesses cannot be ignored anymore. Successful people find their weaknesses and make them their strenghts.  Robert Kiyosaki

Don't teach a pig to sing, It wastes your time & annoys the pig!   Robert Kiyosaki

Nothing happens until something moves   Albert Einstein

Be the change that you wish to see most in your world. Once you do, your life will change. Mahatna Gandhi

If men evolved from apes, how did we become pigs?

Seek out your weaknesses--then work tirelessly to get rid of them        Ian Poulter golfer

The discontented man, finds no easy chair.        Benjamin Franklin

You are not here to merely 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 & achievement. You are here to enrich the world, & to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.        Woodrow Wilson

Get good at being uncomfortable and stop walking the path of least resistance. Fortune is not on the side of the faint hearted.   by  Sophocles

Words are like arrows: Once released, they are impossible to retrieve. So choose your words with carefully & release them with care.                  from Who will cry when you die. by Robin Sharma

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. from Who will cry when you die. by Robin Sharma

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to a uncharted land, or opened a new haven to the human spirit. by Helen Keller

Take a good, hard look at your enviroment. Your thoughts are shaped by the people you associate with, by the books you read, by the words you speak and by your daily physical surroundings.    by Robin Sharama

You can make excuses or you can progress, you can't make both!

As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, as you only get to play one round.
pro golfer Ben Hogan.

Take your life into your own hands & what happens? A terrible thing; no one to blame

To more you are as a person, the less you need to prove yourself to others

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

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Seneca

The greatest discovery of all time is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitude    William James

If you think the cost of education is high, try ignorance. Donald Trump

Readiness for opportunity makes for success....Opportunity often comes by accident, readiness never does      Samuel Rayburn

Education's purose is to replace an empty mind with an open one        Malcolm Forbes

What you are shouts so loudly in my ears, I cannot hear what you say        Emerson

We are what we repeatly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.     Aristotle

The significant problems we face cannot be be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them   Albert Einstein

Wishing, is not a Plan    Don Campbell

Life is the result of all the choices you've made, both conscious & sub-conscious   Don Campbell

You can gain or lose money, Time you can only lose.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water

No one cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy!

If you're not failing now and again, it just proves you're not innovative.   Woody Allen

Change your thoughts & change your world.  Norman Vincent Peale

Burn brightly without burning out.  Richard Biggs

Nothing happens…but first a dream.  Carl Sandburg

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life..that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes in the winds of change, we find our true direction.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.  Norman Vincent Peale

The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.  Rich Devos

It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.  Jean Nidetch

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.  Will Rogers

Live everyday as if it's your last because, one day you'll be right. Steve Jobs

Now is the begining of my future

Torture the evidence until it tells you the truth

Today IS, my life in miniature

No act of charity is too small. Mother Teresa

What is not givin, is lost.

People are known by their abilities, they are remembered by their choices.

I am not here to test the waters, I am here to make waves.

My real teachers are those that frustrate me the most

 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Jim Rohn.

 

 

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