Thursday thoughts

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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. - O. A. Battista

Success is a continuing thing.  It is growth and development.  It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. - John C. Maxwell

 

Success is waking up

in the morning, whoever you are,
wherever you are,
however old or young,
and bounding out of bed because
there's something out there that
you love to do, that you believe in,
that you're good at-
something that's bigger than you are,
and you can hardly wait to
get at it again today.

- Whit Hobbs 

Grow (Every Day)

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Stop what you're doing long enough to grow. - John C. Maxwell

Success is never final. - Winston Churchill

No one has ever made a significant impact after they won the Nobel Prize. - Peter Drucker

Without rest, a man cannot work. Without work, the rest does not give you any benefit. - Abkhasian Proverb

How Do You Spell Success? by John C. Maxwell

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Select your goal.
Unlock your personal potential.
Commit yourself to your plan.
Chart your course.
Expect problems.
Stand firm in your commitment.
Surrender everything to God.

Sucessful Saturday

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A success is one who decided to succeed-
and worked.

A failures is one who decided to succeed-
and wished.

A decided failure is one who failed to decide-
and waited.

- William A. Ward

Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered with failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much because
they live in the gray twilight that knows not
victory or defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt
 

The Eight "P" Plan for Achievement

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Plan Purposefully.

Prepare Prayerfully.

Proceed Positively.

Pursue Persistently.

- Author Unknown

And remember.....

Success is 99 percent failure - Soichiro Honda

Do It Today

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Do the right thing;
Do it today;
Do it with no hope of return or promise of reward;
Do it with a smile and a cheerful attitude;
Do it day after day after day.
Do it, and someday,
There will come a day
That will be a payday
For all the yesterdays
You spent focused on the current day-
That will not only give value to today,
But will make each future day
Outshine each yesterday.
And what more could you ask of a day?

- John C. Maxwell

They Called It Luck

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He worked by day,
and toiled by night.

He gave up play
and much delight.

Dry books he read,
new things to learn.

And forged ahead,
success to earn.

He plodded on,
with faith and pluck.

And when he won,
they called it luck.

- Author Unknown

Win the Daily Battle

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People who achieve daily success have learned
to conquer four common time-wasters.

Laziness:
Time put to no useful purpose,
not even relaxation.

Procrastination:
Putting off things that should be done now.

Distraction:
Time frittered away on the details of side issues,
to the detriment of the main issue.

Impatience:
Lack of preparation, thoroughness,
or perseverance, using resulting in
time-consuming mistakes.

- By John C. Maxwell 

Tuesdays Posts

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Beware
of the barrenness of an
overcrowded life.

- Anonymous

By perserverance
the snail reached the ark.

- Charles Spurgeon

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla.
You don't quit when you're tired -
you quit when the gorilla is tired.

- Robert Strauss

It takes twenty years
to make an overnight success.

- Eddie Canton

:) 

Keys to Success

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Success is not measured
by what a man accomplishes,
but by the opposition he has encountered,
and the courage with which he
has maintained the struggle against
overwhelming odds.

- Charles Lindbergh

I am a great believer in luck,
and I find that the harder I work,
the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock 

Genious!
Saraste, the greatest
Spanish violinist of the nineteenth century,
was once called a genius by a famous critic.
In reply to this, Sarasate declared,
"Genius! For thirty-seven years
I've practiced fourteen hours a day, and now
they all me a genius."

- John C. Maxwell

You can become the star of the hour if you
make the minutes count.

- Anonymous

Every worthwhile accomplishment
has a price tag attached to it.
The question is whether you are
willing to pay the price to attain it -
in hard work, sacrifice, patience,
faith, and endurance.

- John C. Maxwell

A year from now you
may wish you had started today.

- Karen Lamb

The Six Phases of a Project

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Phase One
Enthusiasm

Phase Two
Disillusionment

Phase Three
Panic

Phase Four
The Search for the Guilty

Phase Five
Punishment for the Innocent

Phase Six
Praise and Honor for the Non-participants

- Author Unknown

JUST A LITTLE HUMOR TO START YOUR DAY. :)

Things to ponder

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There are no shortcuts
to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

Failure is really a matter of conceit.
People don't work hard because,
in the conceit, they imagine they'll succeed
without ever making an effort.
Most people believe that they'll
wake up some day and find themselves rich.
Actually, they've got it half right,
because eventually they do wake up.

- Thomas Edison

Genius is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration. - Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 

- Thomas Edison 

There is no defeat 
except in no longer trying. There is no
defeat save within,
no really insurmountable barrier,
save our own inherent weakness 
of purpose.

- Elbert Hubbard 

Thoughts to start our week

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Persevere -

Never give up then,
for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stow


Do something you hate every day,
just for the practice.

- John C. Maxwell

Success seems to
be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes,
but they don't quit.

- Conrad Hilton


Success is going from
failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm.

- Abraham Lincoln


If you keep doing
what you've always done,
you'll always get what you've
always gotten.

- John C. Maxwell  


Happy Monday.  

Saturday quotes

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Everybody can be great...
because anybody can serve.  You don't have to
have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make you subject and verb
agree to serve.  You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.
 - Martin Luther King Jr.

All the beautiful
sentiments in the world weigh less
than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell

He who is afraid
of doing too much
always does too little.
- German Proverb

All You Can

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Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.
- John Wesley

It is your duty to find yourself.
- John C. Maxwell

Success the Disney Way courtesy of John C. Maxwell

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Think "tomorrow."
Make today's efforts pay off tomorrow.

Free the imagination.
You are capable of more than you can imagine -
so imagine the ultimate.

Strive for lasting quality.
"Good enough" never is.

Have "stick-to-it-ivity."
Never, never, never give up.

Have fun.
You're never truly a success until you
enjoy what you are doing.

My all-time favorite poem

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I have loved this poem for years!  I used to have it hanging up a long time ago.

"What is 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 this work 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.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's Easier

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It's easier to settle for average
than strive for achievement.

It's easier to be saturated with complacency
than stirred with compassion.

It's easier to be skeptical
than successful.

It's easier to question
than conquer.

It's easier to rationalize your disappointments
than realize your dreams.

It's easier to belch the baloney
than bring home the bacon.

-

Author unknown

Motivation for a Tuesday

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One Step Further
Do more than exist: live.
Do more than touch: feel.
Do more than look: observe.
Do more than read: absorb.
Do more than hear: listen.
Do more than listen: understand.
Do more than think: reflect.
Do more than just talk: say something.
- Author Unknown

Mrs. Field's Recipe for Success
Love what you're doing.
Believe in your product.
Select good people.
- Debbi Fields

People who have given up are ruled by their darkest mistakes, worst failures, and deepest regrets. If you want to be successful, then be governed by your finest thoughts, your highest enthusiasm, your greatest optimism, and your most triumphant experiences.
- John C. Maxwell

Thoughts for today

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"Behind me is infinite power.
Before me is endless possibility.
Around me is boundless opportunity.
Why should I fear?"
- Stella Stuart


" Cherish your visions
and your dreams as they are the
children of your souls;
the blueprints of your ultimate
achievements."
 - Napoleon Hill

:)

Giving Ideas

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I came across an old article in Oprah that lists some ways to give/donate.  Just thought I would pass it along. I haven't researched any of these myself so, but some I had never heard of. 

- Michael J. Fox Foundation (michaeljfox.org) for Parkinsons
- Keep a Child Alive (keepachildalive.org) AIDS support and programs for kids in Africa and India
- New Eyes for the Needy (new-eyes.org) helps disadvantaged persons get free glasses
- Bring Change 2 Mind (bringchange2mind.org) for mental illness awareness
- Turnaround: Arts (turnaroundarts.pcah.gov) brings the arts into struggling schools

Enjoy the Weekend.