ENTHUSIASM:

When the going gets tough, the tough must not only get going but get
going with enthusiasm.

In life, everyone has to go through peaks and valleys. If you remain
enthusiastic while going through your lowest point, your distance will
become shorter, your burden lighter, and your path smoother.

Remember, no great achiever has ever lack enthusiasm. To get far in life
you must be as enthusiastic about your failures as you are about
your successes.

 "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill.

HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT IT:

The story is told that a young man asked Socrates how he could get wisdom.
"Come with me," Socrates replies. He took the lad to a river and shoved his
head underwater. He held it there until the boy struggled for air.
Then he let him go.

Once the boy regained his composure, Socrates asked him, "What did you
desire most when your head was underwater?" "I wanted air," the boy told
him. Socrates nodded slowly. "When you want wisdom as much as you
wanted air when you were immersed in the water," he said "you will
receive it."

Source: (book) The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind.

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it." - William James.

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems
that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
- Eric Hoffer.

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a
small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill.

DESIRE:

If you desire a dream intensively enough, there's nothing that
can stand in your way.

You must desire your dreams as bad as drowning person desires air,
as bad as a starving person desires food, as bad as a homeless person
desires shelter.

Once you develop a strong desire for what you want, there will be no
mountain that you cannot climb, no obstacle that you cannot surpass,
no distance that you cannot endure.

"Desire! That's the one secret of everyone's career. Not education.
Not being born with hidden talents. Desire." - Bobby Unser.

AMBITION: QUOTES

"Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings." - C. Archie Danielson.

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
- Kenneth Kaunda.

"Ambition is not a vice of little people." - Michel de Montaigne.

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to
go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else." - Vince Lombardi.

"God gave you limited ability, But unlimited ambition and desire." - Unknown.

AMBITION:

No great accomplishment has ever been attained without an
ambitious person behind it.

Ambition is the ability to expect more out of life than others think is
feasible, to risk more than others think is safe, to dream more
than others think is realistic.

If ambition is all you have, ambition is all you will need. For time and
time again, big accomplishments are attained by an average person
who is ambitious enough to aim above the average.

"Big results require big ambitions." - James Champy.

INNER PEACE PORTRAIT:

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who paint the

best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the

pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose

between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect

mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead

was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought

it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too.

But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from

which rain fell, and in which lightening played.

Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did

not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the

waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother

bird had build her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, 

sat the mother bird on her nest. The King chose the second picture.

"Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place 

where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in

the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the

real meaning of peace."

"Peace emerges in your life when you can find silence within in spite of the

noise without." Andres Lara.

"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe."

- Larry Eisenberg.

"Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which you cannot change."

- Ann Landers. 

UNSHAKABLE INNER PEACE:

With so much going on in your life and around the world how can
you experience inner peace?

Inner peace evolves from having your actions in harmony with your
belief...that is doing what you believe is right at all times, pursuing
what's important, and being unwilling to settle for anything less.

It's when your actions contradict your beliefs that your inner peace
is shaken. Only you know what's right and important to you;
do those things and your inner peace will be unshakable.

"The truth of the matter is that we always know  the right thing to do.
The challenge is in doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf.

THE BURNING HUT:

The only survivor of a shipwreck washed up on a small,
uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue
him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help,
but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually
managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect
him from the elements and to store his few possessions.
But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived
home to find his little hut in flames, with the smoke rolling
up to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost.

He was stung with grief and anger. "God, how could you do
this to me!" he cried. Early the next day, however, he was
awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the
island. It had come to rescue him. "How did you know I was
here?" asked the weary man of his rescuers. "We saw your
smoke signal," they replied.

"Never forget that blessings do come in disguise." - Unknown.

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall." - Confucius.
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HABITS:

Remember what it was like to learn how to walk? It was hard.
It tool full concentration.

Yet today you don't think about how to walk, you just walk. Since
you've walked so much, it's become an unconscious habit. Think of
something that's hard and you would like to do it with more ease.

All you have to do is do it more often. Do it so many times that
eventually it becomes part of you. It becomes a habit. It takes
twenty-one days to create a habit. What healthy habit can you
start today?

"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of
doing those things that failures don't like to do." - Albert Gray.

CHILDREN LEARN:

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn;
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight;
If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy;
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty;

If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patience;
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence;
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate;
If children live with fairness, they learn justice;

If children live with security, they learn to have faith;
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves;
If they live with acceptance, they learn to find love in the world.

"It's not what you leave to your children, it's what you leave in your
children." - Unknown.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, the
deeper it sinks into the mind."- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them
to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut
up." - Phyllis Diller.

THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON:

Everything happens for a reason. Though this reason might not
always be visible, know that there is always a reason behind
what happened.

Think about the poor farmer who spent his entire life's savings on a
ticket to get on Titanic, but missed the boat. He was upset.
He was enraged. He was fuming. Until he heard...Titanic sank.

Don't be quick to assume a position of misery for what's currently
happening in your life. Time will prove that there was a reason
behind what happened.

"Nothing happens without a reason."- Andres Lara.

PERSEVERANCE: QUOTES

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
You must never, for whatever reason, turn your back on life."
- Eleanor Roosevelt.

"The wayside of business is full of brilliant people who started
out a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were
taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew
when to quit." - J. R. Todd.

"Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something,
perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone
stumbling on something sitting down." - Charles F. Kettering.

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become discouraged by
their defeats." - B. C. Forbes.

STILL TICKING:

How do you know when to stop playing the game of life? How
do you know when to stop thriving for victory?

No matter what's the score, a football game is not over until the
clock stops ticking. Similarly, if your biological clock is still
running, then your game is not over yet.

Keep in mind that as long as your clock is ticking, you still have
playtime and, therefore, a chance to win.

"It's not over until it's over." - Unknown.

NOT KNOWING

"Homework. It's impossible for you to solve, but experiment with it,"
instructed a math teacher as she wrote on the board an equation
for her fourth grade class. John, one of her students, missed what
the teacher had said but saw he equation on the board, wrote it
down, and took it home.

While at home, John noticed that he had never learned how to
solve this kind of equations. So he went to the library, read
some math's books, and solved the equation. The next day,
he showed the solved equation to the teacher to which she
replied "Impossible." - Told by Dr. Robert Gilbert.

"Everything is possible as long as you don't know that it's impossible."
- Andres Lara.

"The impossible is often the untried." - John Goodwin.

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden.

"Give me a fish and I'll eat for a day. Teach me how to fish and I'll eat
for a lifetime. - Ancient Proverb.

ILLUSION OF KNOWLEDGE

At times, you must disregard the fact that others have failed in the
past at what you want to attempt on the present.

Imagine a warden who gives a key to a prisoner to help him escape.
After a few tries, the inmate gives up. The key didn't work.
Unaware of the past, a year later, another prisoner tries the key
and opens the lock.

Keep in mind that the illusion of knowing what works or doesn't
work is the only thing keeping you from liberating yourself.

"What would you attempt to do today if you didn't know what you
know about your limitations?" - Andres Lara.

NEVER FOLLOW A COSTUME BLINDLY

                  The new husband watched his wife prepare her
                  first ham for the oven and noticed that she cut off
                  a few inches from one end and asked why she did
                  that, she replied that her mother always did it the
                  same way. They called mother, and while she admitted
                  always cutting off a few inches, she could give no
                  reason except that her mother had always done it.
                  Finally, they called grandma, and she explained:
                  "Oh, i always did that because my pan was too small."
                  - Source: That Reminds Me, C. Publishing House.

"Never accept others' limitations as your own. For they might not apply to you."
- Andres Lara.

"From my tribe i take nothing i am the maker of my own fortune." - Tecumseh.

"Our lives begin to end the day we start becoming silent about things that matter."
- Unknown.

"People see the world not as it is, but as they are." - Al Lee.

SEE FOR YOURSELF

How would you know what's possible and what's not? You will
never know unless you venture out.

If you were to live behind bars for the rest of your life, you may
want to check that such bars actually exist. Refuse to take
someone else's word for it; perhaps such bars are no longer vertical.

At times what others have seen or thought they saw will be totally
different to what you will see. Venture out and see for yourself.

"If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it,
they are right." - Carol Burnett.

RULES OF BEING HUMAN

1.       YOU WILL LEARN LESSON. You may like the lessons or think they’re irrelevant and stupid.

2.       A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED. Lessons will be presented to you in various forms. You can move forward only after you have learned the lesson.

3.       LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

4.       THERE ARE NO MISTAKES. The ‘failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately ‘works.’

“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes. The rest of us are the other people.” – Unknown.

“Life is learned from our mistakes as well as our successes. The only real mistake in life is the mistake not learned from.” – Unknown.

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MASTER THE LESSONS

There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. Resist learning these lessons
and they will repeat until they are learned.

Think of life as a school. You won't move on to the next level unless
you have mastered your current one. If you want to move on, you
must learn whatever there's to be learned from your current situation,
only then can you move forward.

Life's lessons are subtle; they will teach you about appreciation
through scarcity, about discipline through temptation, and about
beauty through ugliness. What can you learn from your actual
situation?

“There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a
lesson imperfectly learned.” – Harrison E. Salisburg.