Thoughts

May 8, 2008

by Steven

INTELLIGENCE
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
–Albert Einstein

IMAGINATION
“First comes thought… Then organization of that thought into ideas and plans. Then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning as you’ll observe, is in your imagination.”
—Napoleon Hill

MEMORY
“A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”
–Clifton Fadiman

WORDS
“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.”
–Confucius

VOICE
“Words mean more than what it is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
–Maya Angelou

KNOWLEDGE
“Seek for knowledge even if it is in China.”
–Muhammed of Islam

BOOKS
“Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.”
–Jim Rohn

“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
–Bell Hooks

“It isn’t what the book costs; it’s what it will cost if you don’t read it.”
–Jim Rohn

COMMUNICATION
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
–Jim Rohn

FIRST IMPRESSION
“Oh to see ourselves as others see us.”
–Robert Burns

APPEARENCE
“Neglect of appearance becomes men.”
–Ovid

COURAGE
“Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.”
–Mark Twain

ATTITUDE
“Your attitude determines your altitude.”
–Zig Ziglar

ENTHUSIASM
“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.”
–Og Mandino

CONFIDENCE
“It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.”
–Denis Waitley

SOLITUDE
“Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
–Paul Johannes Tillich

HUMILITY
“Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.”
–Confucius

“The first test of a really great man is his humility.”
–John Ruskin

BELIEF
“A man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with interests.”
–John Stuart Mill

FAITH
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
–Heb.

VISION
“Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.”
–Brian Tracy

MISSION
“A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen it will inspire you to act, fuel your motivation and determine your behaviour.”
–Charles Garfield

HOPE
“Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn’t ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
–Lin Yutang

THINKING
“To think you can, creates the force that can.”
–Orison Swett Marden

THOUGHTS
“By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny.”
–Ruth Barrick Golden

PHILOSOPHY
“Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.”
–Jim Rohn

OPINION
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
–Bertrand Russell

DECISION
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.”
–Anthony Robbins

INDECISION
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
–Maimonides

TIME
“Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.”
–Rudyard Kipling

PROCRASTINATION
“Procrastination . . . is the thief of our self-respect. It nags us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.”
–Thomas S. Monson

CONCEIT
“Conceit is a weird disease that makes everyone sick except the person who has it.”
–Zig Ziglar

CHOICE
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.”
–William Joseph Slim

INSPIRATION
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
–Frank Tibolt

MOTIVATION
“You cannot motivate a person to become as they could be by treating them only as they are.”
–Haluk Demirbag

SELF-MOTIVATION
“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”
–Homer Rice

ACTION
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do.”
–Andrew Carnegie

HELP
“By helping others you help yourself.”
–Zig Ziglar

“We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.”
–Jim Rohn

SERVICE
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”
–Lewis Carroll

WHY
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche

WHO
“Before you can do something you must first be something.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

EMULATE
“When you see a worthy person, endeavour to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.”
–Conficus

PERFECTION
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
–Oscar Wilde

INTEGRITY
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
–Zig Ziglar

TRUST
“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”
–Cardinal De Retz

LOYALTY
“Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.”
–Andy Stanley

KINDNESS
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
–Henry James

FRIENDS/FRIENDSHIP
“You must constantly ask yourself these questions:
Who am I around?
What are they doing to me?
What have they got me reading?
What have they got me saying?
Where do they have me going?
What do they have me thinking?
And most important, what do they have me becoming?
Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?”
–Jim Rohn

HUG
“A hug is a handshake from the heart.”
–-Source Unknown

RELATIONSHIPS
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
–Ben Stein

YOU
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

ME
“If it is to be, it is up to me.”
–William H Johnsen

PEOPLE
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”
–Zig Ziglar

EXPERIENCE
“Experience is not what happens to you - it’s how you interpret what happens to you.”
–Aldous Huxley

PROBLEMS
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
–Theodore Rubin

CHALLENGES
“When thinking of life’s greatest challenges, I tend to think in terms of a tight-rope; hold your head up high, shoulders back, place on foot firmly and carefully in front of the other - and if you must look back… Don’t let it throw you off balance.”
–Charlie Lee Daniels

TRAGEDIES
“Tragedies sometimes happen to allow us to get rid of the things we do not have the good sense to get rid of by ourselves.”
–Laurence Cralle Jr.

CRISIS
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger, the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of danger — but recognize the opportunity.”
–John Kennedy

SELF-DEVELOPMENT
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
–Rumi

SELF-MASTERY
“How do you achieve self-mastery? Mastery comes from confidence. Confidence comes from experience. Experience comes from practice. Practice comes from commitment. And commitment comes from vision.”
–Randy Gage

SELF-PROGRAMMING
“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.”
–Anthony Robbins

ENERGY
“Your mental energy is limited by your physical energy. How do you develop more energy of all kinds? You start by putting your body in top physical condition. Unless you do that, all your other activities won’t help much — you’ll be stuck with the mental and emotional energy that you have now.”
–Tom Hopkins

REST
“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.”
–Jim Rohn

MENTOR/COACH
“If he is indeed wise, the teacher does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather he leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
–Kahlil Gibran

COACHING
“Coaching is the art of facilitating the performance,
learning and development of another.”
–Myles Dawney

METHOD
“The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself.
The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.”
–Lao Tzu

“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”
–Brian Tracy

FAME
“Whoe’er among his fellows wins a name
Soon learns that envy is the price of fame.”
–Arthur Barry O’Neil

CONTRIBUTION
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.”
–William Osler

DESTINY
“Destiny is not what is already made. Destiny is what we are making.”
–Muhammed Ali

LEGACY
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
–William James