Persuasion

f someone's lifestyle embarrasses you.

It's your problem, not theirs.

You will never get across town...

If you wait until all the lights are green.

Generous people give of themselves...

Selfish people give advice.

When you make a mistake...

You can ease your mind by harshly criticizing others.

Sometimes it's easier to change people...

By listening, than by making arguments.

Sometimes all you must do to understand...

Is just be very quiet.

You can cripple people...

By keeping them supplied with too many crutches.

Success is just a matter of luck...

Just ask any failure.

Triumph is "umph" added to try

You are what you imagine you can be.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or

opportunities in every difficulty?

Someone's Opinion of you does not have

to become your reality.

-Les Brown

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A man can get discouraged many times

But he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else

And stop trying.

-John Burroughs

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy in life

doesn't lie in not reaching your goal

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin Mays

Don't tell me that worrying doesn't do any good. I know better

The things I worry about never happen!

For things to change

You got to change

For things to get better

I have to get better

Jim Rohn

There's great demand for people who can get the job done

But there's not much interest in those who can only explain why it wasn't done.

Run "through the finish line, not "to" the finish line.

The person who believes they can do something

is probably right

So it the person who believes they can't.

There's not much demand for people...

Who feel sorry for themselves.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Denis Waitley

Don't confuse excellence with perfection.

Excellence I can reach for;

Perfection is God's business

Loyd Swope

Don't be afraid to attempt something new.

Remember it was amateurs who built the ark.

It was professionals who built the Titanic.

You can't tell how deep a puddle is...

Until you step in it.

Turn loneliness into an opportunity

to find yourself

-Anna Monroe

Experience is a wonderful thing;

It enables you to recognize a mistake every time you make it.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside.

Difficulties are just another reason...

To work harder.

Sometimes your activity...

Interferes with your progress

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Do your best...

The alternative is not acceptable.

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If you don't want to work hard enough to be successful,

You will grab onto any excuse to fail.

You will always make your fears as big as they need to be...

To keep from doing what you don't want to do.

What do you need to get rid of to be happy?

Happiness is never caused by circumstances alone.

Happiness is not the absence of pain and suffering...

Happiness is the presence of hope and enthusiasm.

If nobody loves you, be sure it's your own fault.

It isn't our position,

But our disposition, that makes us happy

Make one person happy each day

Even if it's yourself.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at

but a manner of traveling.

Peace is not the absence of conflict

but the ability to cope with it.

Never suppress joy and enthusiasm...

They go back down and give you gas.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness

and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others

Cannot keep it from themselves.

-Sir James Barrie

Please don't take my unhappiness away...

How else will I control my friends and loved ones?

Happiness is not the absence of pain and suffering

Happiness is the presence of hope and enthusiasm.

It's not what people eat,

but what they digest

that makes them strong

It is no what they gain

but what they save

that makes them rich

It is not what they read

but what they remember

that makes them learn.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves,

by relating that we observe

by affirming that we examine

by showing that we look

by writing that we think

by pumping that we draw water into the well.

-Henri Fredric Amiel