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SUCCESSFUL LIFE

Everyone shall taste death. And only on the Day of Resurrection shall you be paid your wages in full. And

whoever is removed away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is SUCCESSFUL. The
life of this world is only
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the enjoyment of deception. - Quran 3:185

Actions have consequences ... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. - Holly Lisle Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. - Helen Keller The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. - John Lubbock Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

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Success is being able to establish a set of priority values and enjoying living with those priorities. - Gunn McKay The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. - John Ruskin All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. - Martin Luther Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. - Ted Turner

It's true -- if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. We need to take luck out of the equation. - Brad Turk A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. - Unknown Author One half of knowing what you want, is knowing what you must give up before you get it. Sidney Howard You cannot prevent the birds of care and worry from flying overhead, but you can stop them from building a nest in your head. - Chinese Proverb Overnight success happens only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. Ernie J. Zelinski Being organized is not an end in itself -- it is a vehicle to take you from where you are to where you want to be. - Stephanie Winston I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it. - Pat Heim An idea unrecorded is an idea often lost! Zig Ziglar -

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Unknown Author The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson I will not say I failed 1,000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1,000 ways that can cause failure. - Thomas Alva Edison If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything. - Mark Twain Don't be discouraged, it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Unknown Author

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. - Elbert Hubbard If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. - Mary Pickford If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. Win Borden He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. Henry David Thoreau I know it seems hard sometimes, but remember one thing, through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it. - Tupac If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Samuel Johnson I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is, trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life.

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It is not necessary to blow out other persons' lights to let your own shine. - Lao Tze Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good. - Brian Tracy There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. - Jean De La Bruyere Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. - Tryon Edwards I could never have done what I have done without the habit of punctually, order and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your own innovations. - Steve Jobs

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground greener. - Thomas Carlyle Three sentences for getting success: a) know more than others b) work more than others c) expect less than others. Shakespeare

- William

When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. - Peter Marshall When you hate, the only one that suffers is you, because most of the people you hate dont know it, and the rest dont care. - Medgar Evers You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton

A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion. - Chinese Proverb All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Walter Scott Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Alva Edison It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. Batasar Gracian Our great glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. -Tryon Edwards Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. - Hesiod

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Success is nothing more than going from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm. Winston Churchill A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. - Basil The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. James M. Barrie People are successful at the things to which they devote most of their time and effort. It's a question of deciding what's important in your life and working hard to achieve it. -The Garcia-Prats It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. - Unknown Author Small kindness, small courtesies, small considerations, habitual practices, give a greater charm to the character than the display of greater talents and accomplishments. - Kelly Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey Just because something doesnt do what you planned it to do doesnt mean it's useless. Thomas Alva Edison Anyone can become angry, that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. - Aristotle

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you dont. Anatole France Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett Failure doesnt mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. - Gary Ryan Blair The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis Real riches are the riches possessed inside. B. C. Forbes -

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. - Napoleon Hill A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscalgia The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. - Robert Brault Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. Sara Ebenreck Have the ability to make and keep friends. Borneman - Louise

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. - William Haley To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do. - Paul Cummings Sticking to it is the genius. Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and made the damn thing work. - Thomas Alva Edison If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten,

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Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin Code for success: Find your own particular talent. Be big. Be honest. Live with enthusiasm. Dont let your possessions possess you. Dont worry about your problems. Look up to people when you can -- down to no one. Dont cling to the past. Assume your full share of responsibility in the world. Pray consistently and constantly. - Conrad Hilton There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a young woman who is clean in thought and word and deed. - Gordon B. Hinckley A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. - C.S. Lewis Shallow men believe in luck. Emerson - Ralph Waldo

Treat temptation as a fierce-some on-rushing freight train. Get off the tracks!! And stay far away from the train station. - Spencer W. Kimball It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you have not lost the things that money cannot buy.

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- George Horace Lorimer There is a difference between being: "Humbly grateful" and "Grumbly hateful." Which are you? Do you really appreciate what you have, or do you grumble even in the face of your good fortune? - G. Donald Gale Nothing comes without a price. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. - Charles de Gaulle The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. - Thomas Carlyle In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness -- otherwise how would you know when you are happy. - Leslie Caron Always keep your promises. Always be on time. Never forsake right to follow the line of least resistance. It is far better to do things the right way than the easy way. It is smart to be honest; stupid to be dishonest. - T. H. Bell Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein

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The measure of pleasure is not leisure. The measure of pleasure is accomplishment. Unknown Author I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Money doesnt always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than those with nine million dollars. - Hobart Brown You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C. S. Lewis

Attitude is the most important thing in our lives. Our lives are 10% what happens to us and 90% what we do with what life gives us. Your attitude is an advertisement of your being. - Rulon G. Craven We try and try and try and try and try and then we get it right. - Walt Disney Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. - Adam Lindsay Gordon Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. - Orison Swett Marden When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. - William Wrigley Jr. Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. - Unknown Author Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. - David Brinkley "Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start -

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now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait." - The William Feather Magazine You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's business. It's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun. - Derek Jeter Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. - Jim Rohn Be more concerned with the value of your word than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden Lack o f money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of

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courage - to move in the opposite direction. - E. F. Schumacher Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - Washington We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can. - Unknown Author Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labour with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order -- willed, faked, and so brought into being. - Annie Dillard Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. - Pete Seeger Whenever possible, respond to a letter (email or text message) immediately. The longer you postpone answering, the more lengthy the response needs to be. - Pat Dorff Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must

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vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Pablo Picasso Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between? - Buwei Yang Chao The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. - Judith Martin It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside. - May Sarton I have a secret. I make lists. That's how I handle stress. And whether they actually help me accomplish more or not, they make me feel so much better. If I can jot down all the tasks that swirl around in my head, I shift from feeling deluged and stressed to feeling in control and calm. And this is before I even do anything on the list. - Suzanne Riss Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are! - Cindy Adams Circumstances are the rules of the weak: they are but the instruments of the wise. - Samuel Lover There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then, Providence moves too. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin. Boldness

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has genius, power, and magic in. Begin it now. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you seize an opportunity it creates more opportunities. - John D. Rockefeller Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. - Kathleen Norris Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you. - W. Clement Stone The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit -- and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him -- and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. - John Paul Getty Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. - Orison Swett Marden

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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul -- the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill You cannot fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch with the turkeys. - Zig Ziglar Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be as a spider's web, easy broken through, but if not resisted, it soon binds us with chains of steel. - Tryon Edwards The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. - Thomas Alva Edison Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives. - Robin Sharma Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. George Matthew Adams Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to think positive, and you have to fight. - Lance Armstrong Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it. Dalai Lama -

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Find people to make up for your lack of know-how and, eventually, you WILL know-how. - Brad Turk I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test --- even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. - Alex Haley Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. Tom Krause Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In calm waters every ship has a good captain. Proverb - Swedish

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine times out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. - Stella Benson Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

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It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grownups can get through a whole day without making a mistake. - Marcelene Cox When a man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, has no right to keep it to himself. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau All great truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Forget about likes and dislikes, they are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. - George Bernard Shaw Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured. - Unknown Author I believe man was designed for accomplishment, engineering for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. - Zig Ziglar Dont be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week. - Charles Richards

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Enemies of yesterday could be friends of today if they ceased retaliation in words and deeds. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde Great men are too often unknown, or what is worse, miss known. - Thomas Carlyle Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. - Timothy Zahn Never break four things in your life -- Trust, Promise, Relation and Heart because whey they break they dont make noise but pains a lot. - Unknown Author Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. Mencius Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. - Ashley Smith How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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- Benjamin Disraeli Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz When life hands you lemons . . . make lemonade, sell it on the corner, invest your profits and, when they mature, go by some oranges! (Orange juice outsells lemonade by 10 to 1.) - Brad Turk A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. - Robert J McKain A problem is a chance for you to do your best thinking. - Duke Ellington The future is not some place we are going, but one we create. The paths are not found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the make and the destination. - John Schaar Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong. Unknown Author Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman There are three kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

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- Lois Borland Hart There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done. - David Allen For a long time, I let the huge amount of computer-operation information intimidate me. Then, I realized I didn't know how my phone worked, either. But I knew how to make phone calls. Sally Williams Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert Green Ingersoll Watch your thoughts, for they become words. What your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. - Unknown Author High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles Kettering Blessed is he who found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. - Thomas Carlyle There is only one boss; the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else through hard work. Thats the price we

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have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal. - Vince Lombardi Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didnt know you left open. John Barrymore If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. - Robert Brault Do you have a plan? Most people plan their vacations better than they plan their lives. - Mary Kay Ash Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino Everyone has a need for frequent honest praise. Dale Carnegie -

Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive And they who turn away from ill speech And they who are observant of zakah (charity) And they who guard their private parts Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors And they who are to their trusts and their promises attentive And they who carefully maintain their prayers Those are the inheritors Who will inherit al-Firdaus (Paradise). They will abide therein eternally.

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- Quran 23:112 To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talent; what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour. - Winston Churchill The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. - Nicolas BoileauDespreaux Preparation is the key to success in any endeavour. The greatest athletes are not always the strongest, fastest and most gifted -- but are those who have the ability to recognize their potential and prepare to meet that potential. - R. LaVell Edwards Dont find fault. Find a remedy. Henry Ford -

Great men are said to have four things in common They speak softly, have the capacity for hard work, a deep conviction for their cause, a consuming belief in their ability to do it. - John D. Hess Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. - Elbert Hubbard Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like is or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas Huxley

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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. Charles F. Kettering Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. - Thomas Mann A beautiful relationship does not depend upon how good we understand someone but on how well we avoid misunderstandings. - Unknown Author Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. - Louis L'Amour Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. - Maxwell Maltz All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. - Unknown Author One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. - Laurence J. Peter Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas A Kempis Good things don't just happen by themselves. We need to do everything in our power to make them happen. - Brad Turk Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz Doing nothing is very hard to do you never know when you're finished. Leslie Nielsen Most great businesses were built with sweat equity. Do something small and build it slowly. - Dan Miller Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. - Rita Mae Brown Sometimes you end up using more energy stressing over your unfinished tasks than you would if you took a few minutes to accomplish them. - Jayme Barrett

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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction. Katherine Mansfield The mind can store an estimated 100 trillion bits of information -- compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. - Sharon Begley The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer If you ever wake up without a problem, you better get down on your knees and pray for one, because otherwise you just died. - Norman Vincent Peale We must all suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes. - Jim Rohn Every child is an artist -- the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Unknown Author 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - Baltasar Gracian -

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle If you dont go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora Roberts In all things success depends upon previous preparations, and withou such preparation there is sure to be failure. - Confucius It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus -

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler Ross Man's value is in the few things he creates and not in the many possessions he masses. Khalil Gibran Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Maria Robinson One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. William Moulton Marsden Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. - Wilfred A. Patterson The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act. - Orison Swett Marden Success doesn't come to you, you go to it. Collins - Marva

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men. - Thomas Fuller The world is a stage where every man should play a role of his own. William Shakespeare

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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire Wealth is like sea water, the more we drink the thirstier we become and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer When you hate, the only one that suffers is you, because most of the people you hate dont know it, and the rest dont care. - Medgar Evers Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. - Thomas Paine It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. - Batasar Gracian The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible. - Corrie Ten Boom To identify one's self with the truth is to place one's self in the heart of a storm from which there is no escape for life. - D. M. Patton A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling

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the word darkness on the walls of his cell. - C. S. Lewis If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour. - Jennifer Jones A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. - Basil Observe with Care: If your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where. - Unknown Author Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. - Jesse Owens The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

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- Robert Louis Stevenson A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. - Unknown Author Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. - Margaret Young Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. - Brian Tracy Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. Seneca -

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. - Robert G. Ingersoll Good management means delegating authority Effective management is the art of multiplying yourself through others. The jobs to delegate are the ones you do best. - Ezra Taft Benson Make no little plans. There is nothing in little plans to stir men's blood. Make big plans. Once a big idea is recorded, it can never die. - Daniel Burnham

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There is nothing in this world so satisfying as a job well done. - Gordon B. Hinckley Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge The times young people have the most difficulties in their life are when they move away from God's obedience. Unknown Author Twelve Qualities of Success: The value of time. The habit of perseverance. The pleasure of working. The dignity of simplicity. The worth of character. The power of kindness. The influence of example. The obligation of duty. The wisdom of economy. The virtue of patience. The improvement of talent. The joy of originating. - Marshall Field We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honour it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. - Albert Einstein Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. Doug Larson

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You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. - Abraham Lincoln Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr. A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything. - Unknown Author I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game's winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Understand that fortune and fame don't equate to success; being true to yourself and finding your happiness makes you successful. - Brad Turk The price of greatness is responsibility. Churchill - Winston

Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 from and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked by kept last year?? Where's

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the monthly checking summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office. - Cathy Guisewite Just because something isn't being done, hasn't been done or looks like it can't be done, doesn't mean you can't do it. - Brad Turk The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. - Don Williams He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wildon The middle of the road is where the white line is, and that's the worst place to drive. Robert Frost What I lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wished me to do To find the idea for which I can live and die. - Soren Kierkegaard Dont worry when there is a solution to the problem. When there is no solution to the problem worrying will not provide it. - Unknown Author Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. - Abu Bakr

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Just clearing one drawer can open up your heart and mind to new possibilities. You will immediately feel a sense of relief and will have more energy to continue the process. - Jayme Barrett Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. - Zora Neale Hurston Procrastination isn't always a bad thing. For starters, it can keep you from working on tasks that ultimately turn out to be less important than you thought. - Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman Of all things you wear, your expression is more important. - Unknown Author The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. - Jennifer James It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. - Abu Bakr Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu You might ask, 'How can I know if something is God's will?' My answer is, 'If it were not God's will, it woundn't exist even for an instant; so if something happens, it must be His will. If you truly enjoyed God's will, you would feel exactly as though you were in the kingdom of heaven, whatever happened to you or didn't happen to you.' - Meister Eckhart

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Some people say it's not what you know, but who you know. I say, find the people you need to know and introduce yourself. - Brad Turk You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Winners are not afraid of losing, but losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. - Robert Kiyosaki Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. Churton Collins Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an everlengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Winston Churchill He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. - Abu Bakr Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldnt call it genius. Michelangelo Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. - Nido Qubein Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goaloriented people who encourage and inspire you. - Brian Tracy Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one's destiny to do, and then do it. Henry Ford I could never have done what I have done without the habit of punctuality, order and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens I look to the future because thats where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. - William James

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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. - Earl Nightingale Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God. - Abu Bakr The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something; the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. - Thomas Carlyle Becoming a millionaire is not that difficult, but it is not the most important thing. The most important part of becoming a millionaire is the person that you have to become to accumulate a million dollars in the first place. - Jim Rohn Take care of spare moments. They are the golden dust of time. Unknown Author The Golden Rule for every businessman is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place. - Orison Swett Marden Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth and his humanity. - Peter Drucker Persistence is to character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill -

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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished. - Og Mandino Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. Benjamin Franklin And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill One of the things my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expections, and those are the only things I really care about. - Tiger Woods You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. - Les Brown What you can't fix, change or impact -- You can't worry about. - Brad Turk The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim -

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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. - Herbert N. Casson The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. - Montaigne Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. - Plato All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Walter Scott All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Emerson To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. - Chuck Reid

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Barry LePatner A leader must have skin of a rhino, compassion of a mother, courage of a soldier, patience of a saint. Unknown Author Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said. Mark Twain When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong - or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. Bernard Shaw - George

You shall not enter Paradise so long as you do not affirm belief in God and you will not believe as long as you do
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not love one another. Should I not direct you to a thing which, if you do, will foster love amongst you: make it a habit of saluting one another assalamu alaikum (may peace be upon you). - Muhammad the Messenger of God

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