CHALLENGES

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” --Joshua J. Marine

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk." --Tony Robbins

"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature." --Robert Louis Stevenson

CAPABLE

"We judge ourselves by what we feel we are capable of doing. Others judge us by what we have already done." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I asked for Strength and was given difficulties to make me strong, I asked for Wisdom and was given problems to solve, I asked for Prosperity and was given brain and brawn to work, I asked for Courage and was given obstacles to overcome, I asked for Love and was given troubled people to help, I asked for Favors and was given opportunties. I received nothing I wanted but received everything I needed." --Unknown

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are." --Tony Robbins

NAMASTE

Namaste....I salute the Divine within you, I salute what you do best. I salute your natural gifts. I honor your uniqueness and your specialness.


I just love that definition.....Namaste!

SUCCESS

"Success:  To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded!"  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

--Winston Churchill

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." --Theodore Roosevelt.

"There are countless ways of attaining greatness. But any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity."-- Buck Rodgers, IBM

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.  --George Bernard Shaw

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results." --William James



Are we really "finished" when we have "succeeded?"

SPIRITUALITY

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." --Leo Buscaglia

INTENTION

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreicate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as this is all there is.” --Mary Ann Radmacher

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." --Dr. George Crane

"The smallest good deed is better than the best intention." John Wooden

“Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, attainment, with very little conscious effort; others conquer with great difficulty; still others fail altogether to reach their ambitions, desires, and ideals.  Why is this so? Why should some men realize their ambitions easily, others with difficulty, and still others not at all? This cause cannot be physical, or else the most perfect men, physically, would be the most successful.  The difference, therefore, must be mental – must be in the mind; hence mind must be the creative force, must constitute the sole difference between men.  It is mind, therefore, which overcomes environment and every other obstacle in the path of men.”  – Charles F. Haanel

EXCELLENCE

"Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.” --Rick Pitino

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." --Marie Curie

"To compare is not to improve." --unknown.


"Do not compare your life to others, you have no idea what their journey is all about." --unknown.


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

If you strive for excellence and achieve YOUR BEST, it matters not what the other person does or doesn't do.


"Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable." --John Wooden