Quote of the Day Issue 16

451) Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
-- Mother Teresa

452) I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
-- Judith M. Knowlton

453) Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most do.
-- Dale Carnegie

454) If you pay attention at every moment, you form a new relationship to time. In some magical way; by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.
-- Michael Ray

455) Creativity means believing you have greatness.
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

456) Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
-- Erica Jong

457) The greatest oaks have been little acorns.
-- Proverb (Polish)

458) Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
-- Jack Canfield

459) I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
-- Og Mandino

460) You cannot control the world outside, but you can choose what you will bring into yourself. If you do not see anything of value in your life, begin by finding one thing of beauty every day until it becomes a habit.
-- Ron Rathbun

461) Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
-- Joseph Joubert

462) I am a part of all that I have met.
-- John Milton

463) Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
-- William James

464) You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
-- George Horace Lorimer

465) Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
-- Bonnie Blair

466) You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.
-- Jim Rohn

467) Anyone can turn on a small light in a dark room. Anyone!
-- Erin Gruwell

468) Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by 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 nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

469) Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
-- Knute Rockne

470) Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.
-- Nancy Kerrigan

471) The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they're gone.
-- George Eliot

472) Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

473) What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
-- Author Unknown

474) We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
-- Orison Swett Marden

475) Create your YES list, a list of all the things you want to say YES to, and be prepared to be amazed.
-- Linda MacDonald

476) Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
-- Og Mandino

477) Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
-- Marcia Wieder

478) You are where you are right now in your life because of the choices you have made and the actions you have taken. If you want to change your life, remember that change starts with you.
-- Jeffrey Keller

479) Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
-- George Bernard Shaw

480) Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-- Albert Gyorgyi

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