Bytes of Wisdom
For Your Enlightenment, Inspiration and Life-Enrichment
Part 9 of 9
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. – Helen Keller
Success is a habit. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
The hardest thing in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. – David Russell
I can get up at nine and be rested, or I can get up at six and be President. – Jimmy Carter
The late J. P. Morgan was asked what he considers to be the best bank collateral. Without hesitation he replied, “Character.” – Zig Ziglar
Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted, and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does. – Moss Hart
There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends. – Lawrence J. Peter
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead of you. Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. – Oprah Winfrey
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the surefootedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. – Ann Landers
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill
The moment you commit and stop holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. – Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)
When I look into the future, it’s so bright, it burns my eyes. – Oprah Winfrey
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. – Johann von Goethe
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Because of free will, we have the choice to accept or reject the boundless good that is ours. We are continually co-creating our life story according to the state of our consciousness. We provide the patterns for the Power, and what we experience is what we believe and accept as true. – John Randolph Price
Going slow does not prevent arriving. – Nigerian Proverb
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagra is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller
The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes. – Confucius
Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future. – Katherine Hepburn
Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second. – Paul “Bear” Bryant
Success is being able to hire someone to mow the lawn while you play golf for exercise. You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one. – Dale Carnegie
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt
Love grows, oh, so slowly when nursed only by complaints. – Larry James
Love is what created the universe, and Love is what the universe is made of. Therefore, Love is Mind and also the thoughts of Mind. Love is the thrust of all creation. When you are perplexed, confused, and fearful, and wonder what decision to make, remember that you have an inner guide that will lead and direct you in all your ways, revealing to you the perfect plan, and showing you the way you should go. The secret guidance or right action is to mentally devote yourself to the right answer until you find its response within you. – Joseph Murphy
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. – Kahlil Gibran
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other. – Mother Teresa
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kits rise against, not with, the wind. – John Neal
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing. – Will Rogers
What you see with your mind and hold with your heart is the reality you experience. To change that reality you must change the picture by emotion and thought. – John Randolph Price
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. – Arab Proverb
The trouble with being a leader today is that you can’t be sure whether people are following you or chasing you. When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been. – Patch Adams
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you have — you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation, you cannot do it. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off. – Carl Sagan, Astronomer
Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind. – Zig Ziglar
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. – Voltaire
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves. – Eda Leshan
All truly great thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them really ours we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. – Goethe
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead. – William Arthur Ward
The world is full of judgment days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is not the plaything of human volition but the action of Divine law. – Charles Fillmore
There is one temple in the universe the human body. We touch heaven when we touch the human body. – Thomas Carlyle
Remember that Spirit always expresses through us according to the tone, pitch and shape of our consciousness. If we “let go and let God” while maintaining a negative consciousness, the positive results will be minimal. – John Randolph Price
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.Leo Buscaglia
Speak only words of love. The vocabulary of love are words of acceptance and understanding. Peace of mind occurs when we put all our attention on giving and having no desire to get anything from, or to change, another person. – Gerald G. Jampolsky
As soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It’s the mood and the purpose at the inceptions of each day that are the most important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away fro a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. – George Matthew Adams
Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. – Donald Curtis
You are only lonely when you don’t like the person you are alone with. – Wayne Dyer
It takes no strength to let go. – Guy Finley
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half-awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts, which he habitually fails to use. – William James
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense. – Thomas Edison
The whole trend and quality of anyone’s life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. – Norman Vincent Peale
There’s more to life than crossing things off your To-Do list. Creating empowering afformations can be one of the most significant steps you’ll ever take to gain more control over your business, raise your self-confidence, improve your personal relationships, or enjoy a deeper relationship with God. – Noah St. John & Denise Berard, The Great Little Wellness Book of Afformations. www.SuccessClinic.com
The individual who will learn how consciously to change his thinking processes can remold his destiny. – Ernest Holmes
The prayer of power is not reaching out toward anything above or around or beneath. It is knowing that you are one with all there is. It is an understanding that the substance of your being is the one and only substance there is in the universe. – H. B. Jeffery, The Spirit of Prayer-Treatment
Think, feel, and behave like an actualized person and you will soon be the person you want to be. You will call forth the talents, abilities, and inner power to unfold your innate potential. – Roy Eugene Davis
It is not an arbitrary “decree of God,” but in the nature of man that a veil shuts down on the facts of tomorrow: for the soul will not have us read any other cipher but that of cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Become a “possibilitarian.” No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities always see them, for they are always there. – Norman Vincent Peale
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. – Dr. Martin Luther Kind, Jr.
When you look in the mirror, you are looking at the problem, but remember, you are also looking at the solution. There is a Fountain of Love within you, and from it flows the fulfillment of all you could desire, the light substance to bring every form into visibility. – John Randolph Price
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. – Carl Jung
Things do not change; we do. – Henry David Thoreau
It’s a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.– W. Somerset Maugham
When a man has done all he can do, still there is a might, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The only way he can reach it is by prayer. – Russell H. Conwell
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Mary Kay Ash (Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. – Elbert Hubbard
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
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