WISHES

Why the heck do I want to be CAREFUL of what I wish for? Dang straight...I want to WISH ON PURPOSE CAUSE I KNOW I WILL GET IT!!

GRATITUDE

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner

JUST DO IT!

"You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it." --Maya Angelou

BE PASSIONATE

"Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." --Angela Monet 

"If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived?  Find your passion, whatever it may be.  Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you." --T. Alan Armstrong

"Passion is the genesis of genius."  --Anthony Robbins

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

Find your passions, hold on to them. Live them!

PROBLEM SOLVING

"Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
-–Albert Einstein

HUMILITY

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all." --William Temple

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." --Malcolm S. Forbes

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." --Author Unknown

"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right." --Ezra Taft Benson

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
--Lao-Tzu

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation." --Saint Augustine 

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps." --Gandhi

WINNERS

DETERMINATION

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." --Vince Lombardi

"The difference between the unattainable and the attainable lies in a person's determination." --Unknown.

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. " --Og Mandino

I AM...

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” --Lao Tzu

RESPONSIBILITY

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." --Joan Didion

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

 "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." --Author Unknown

"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him.  Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be.  Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate.  Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow."  --Louis L'Amour

At the end of the day, it's still MY responsibility to pick myself up, dust myself off, and DO

PEACE

STRENGTH

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. " --Eleanor Roosevelt

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." --Napolean Hill

"Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from an indomitable will." --Mahatma Gandhi

"Pain is temporary, quitting is forever."  --Lance Armstrong

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”  --Lao Tzu