T'S YOUR FRIENDS THAT MAKE YOUR WORLD

 

Your own positive energy will compel things to turn out

the way you desire when you're surrounded by positive people.

Choose your environment with care.

 

Your environment is your mental feeding ground.

It's where all the food that goes into your mind comes from.

 

 

Choose your environment with care, one that is positive,

one that lifts you up and gives you wings to soar.

 

Create favorable conditions through your association with others.

Avoid people who belittle your ambition.

Small people always do that, but the really great people,

make you feel that you, too, can become great.

 

We shape our buildings, and then they shape us.

 

 

LEADERSHIP IS ACTION NOT POSITION

 

All successful people became successful because they

gave some talent or ability in the service of others.

You can contribute in some way to others no matter

how small your talent.

You too, can become successful.

 

No one achieves success without being of service.

The essence of success is service.

 

Successful people don't use others, other people

use the successful, for above all success is of service.

 

Everyone has to be someone to someone to be anyone.

 

 

OPPORTUNITY LIES IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTY

 

Every problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful

that it literally dwarfs the problem.

The greatest success stories were created by people

who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

 

You'll find that every situation properly perceived

offers you opportunity.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it.

 

Successful people don't achieve their distinction

by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.

They developed an opportunity that was at hand.

 

You must make your own opportunities if you want to be successful.

They are all around you.

 

EVERY FAILURE IS A STEP CLOSER TO SUCCESS

 

Experiencing failure is inevitable on the highway to success.

Every defeat is merely an installment to victory.

 

People who try to do something and fail are infinitely better

than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

 

You won't be judged by the number of times you fail,

but by the number of times you succeed.

And the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion

to the number of times you fail and keep trying.

 

Failure is nothing but education, nothing but the first step

to something better.

 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

 

HAPPINESS IS A BYPRODUCT OF ACTIVITY

 

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement,

the thrill of creative effort.

The human spirit needs to accomplish,

to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

 

Happiness does not come from doing easy work.

It comes from the afterglow of satisfaction after

the achievement of a difficult task that demands

your best.

 

Your personal growth itself contains the seed of happiness.

You cannot pursue happiness by itself.

 

There is no happiness except in the realization that you

have accomplished something.

 

Happiness thrives in activity.

It's a running river, not a stagnant pond.

 

THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SIDE

 

Everything depends on the way you look at things.

View every problem you encounter as an opportunity.

There is always a good side to every situation.

 

The optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune.

The pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity.

The optimist sees the doughnut.

The pessimist sees the hole.

 

You can develop success from every failure.

Discouragement and failure are two stepping stones to your success.

No other elements can do so much for you if you're willing to study them

and make them work for you.

 

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars..

 

YOU ARE WHAT YOU REPEATEDLY DO

 

 

First you make your habits, and then your habits make you.

You become a slave to your constantly repeated acts.

What at first you chose, at last compels.

 

Your thoughts lead you to a purpose.

Your purpose moves you to take action.

Your actions form your habits.

Your habits determine your character,

and your character fixes your destiny.

 

Your habits are either the best of servants

or the worst of masters.

 

Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.

 

HONESTY OPENS THE DOOR TO SUCCESS

 

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying

to themselves their true feelings and attitudes.

They have no need for pretenses.

 

Once you accept yourself completely you don't have to

maintain a phony front, or feel insecure if people don't

tune in to you and what you're doing.

 

Visualize what you really want,

not what someone else wants for you.

Don't forfeit three-forth's of yourself to be like other people.

 

First say to yourself what you would be

and then do what you have to do.

 

HOW STRONG IS YOUR DESIRE FOR SUCCESS?

 

 

You accomplish things by directing your desires,

not by ignoring them.

 

You're always motivated to the degree that the

decisions you make are your decisions.

To be honest with yourself, to sincerely know

what you really want, is the key to your motivation.

 

You're always in a position to decide.

You can decide to do something or

you can decide to do nothing.

The choice will always be yours.

 

It's so hard when you have to,

and so easy when you want to.

 

YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHANCE

 

 

Within you at this moment is the power to do things

you never dreamed possible.

 

In fact, if you did all the things you are capable of doing,

you would literally astound yourself.

This power will come available to you

the moment you change your beliefs.

 

You know what you are today,

but not what you may be tomorrow.

Always look at things as they can be.

 

You can do anything you wish to do,

have anything you wish to have,

be anything you wish to be.

 

Never say never.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

 

SEE THINGS BIG BUT KEEP THINGS SIMPLE

 

 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The key to anything is simplicity.

 

You can increase your understanding of any subject

by progressing from the simple to the complex.

Divide any complex issue into simple parts,

and master each part, and no project will be too difficult.

 

By understanding the simple,

you can understand the complex.

 

Solutions are all simple after you have arrived at them.

But, they are simple only when you know what they are.

 

Nothing is more simple than greatness,

for to be simple is to be great...

 

 

YOU ONLY GET TO KEEP WHAT YOU GIVE AWAY

 

It's a universal law: You have to give before you get.

 

You must plant your seeds before you reap the harvest.

The more you sow, the more you will reap.

In giving to others, you will find yourself blessed.

 

The law works to give you back more then you have sown.

The giver's harvest is always full.

 

Those that obtain have little.

Those who scatter have much.

 

Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

 

ALL GREAT ACHIEVEMENT REQUIRES TIME

 

 

To achieve maximum success accept that progress

is made one step at a time.

 

Every big accomplishment is a series

of little accomplishments.

 

A building is built one brick at a time.

Foot ball games are won one play at a time.