START: QUOTES

"Our background and circumstances may influence who we are, but we are
responsible for who we become." - Unknown.

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." - Dawson Trotman

"Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb
up underneath it." - Frank C. Bucaro.

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
- George H. Lonmer.

"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb.

START TODAY:

It should not be a problem to begin at the very end of the line of success,
yet it should be a problem not to begin at all.

The only way to get to the highest rung of any ladder is by beginning to
climb from a lower rung. Refuse to start climbing and you will remain
at the very bottom.

Where you start it's certainly not where you will end up. Yet if you never
start, you will end up exactly where you are right now. Start today.

"Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes."
- Dr. James Dobson.

TAKE THE STAIRS:

A group of tourists who were visiting the Empire State Building in New York
City heard the guide announce loudly that there was a three-hour wait to ride
the elevator to the top of the building. However, with a smile on his face the
guide then said, "There is no one waiting to go to the top if you are
willing to take the stairs. - Zig Zigglar.

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one
step at a time." - Joe Girard.

"If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than
if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might
have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we
cannot see." - Richard Martin Stern.

"Failure are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and
those who did and never thought." - John Charles Salak.

FIND IT:

To accomplish great things you must not only dream, but also act.
Not only believe, but also risk.

You must not lose faith when everything is against you. If every door you
turn to is closed, knock. If it doesn't open, find another one. If you knock
enough doors, eventually one will open.

No door has ever stood in between a dreamer and a dream. If you knock
every door and none opened, find a window or a chimney. There is always
a way in, you must find it.

"Behold the turtle. It makes progress only when it sticks its neck ut."
- James Bryant Conant.

OPTIMISM: QUOTES

"In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has
a better time on the trip." - Daniel L. Reardon.

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it
is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned;
it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and
not to abandon it to his enemy." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

"The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to believe that the best is
yet to come." - Peter Ustinoy.

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist
always run to blow it out." - Michel De Saint-Pierre.

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses." - Ziggy.

IT GETS BETTER

When your hopes are down, as they sometimes will; when your
emotional wounds seem, as though, they will never heal; when the
journey you are on, seems less than ideal; it's then that you must
exercise your mental will.

Tell yourself. Ift will get sunnier. I will get healthier and wealthier,
and my journey will get easier.

At the end of your life, who knows, you might not be right. Maybe it didn't
get sunnier, maybe you didn't get healthier or wealthier, and maybe your
journey didn't get any easier. But at least you would be able to say that
you enjoyed the ride.

"Remember, life is not about the place where you will arrive, but rather about
enjoying the drive." - Andres Lara.

HOPE: QUOTES

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- Edwin Louis Cole.

"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.

"When the odds are against me I prove them wrong, When all else fails I succeed,
When all else ceases to live I breath, When all turns to ashes from it I rise,
So it doesn't matter what you throw at me or what you do, I am, I do, that's all
that matters." - Heather Griggs

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
- Napoleon Hill.

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller.

TAKE ANOTHER STEP:

When every ounce of strength is drained from you, when you have
given all you had to give, when your hope wears out; it's then when
you must take another step forward.

One step beyond hopelessness will give you access to that which cannot
be drained, taken, or worn out. That which, like the ocean, cannot be
depleted...your essence.

You have more energy than challenges will ever be able to consume, more
strength than you will ever be able to employ, and more to give than there
is to be given. Take another step.

"Life gives anything we ask of it only after we refuse to take no for an answer."
- Andres Lara.

I'M STILL GROWING:

Though Edmund Hillary failed on his first attempt, on his second try he
climbed to the top of Mount Everest. A few weeks after his success, he
addressed a group. From the stage, he pointed at a picture of the mountain
and said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest , you beat me the first time ,but I beat
you the second time around because you grew all you were going to grew...
but I'm still growing!" - Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R,.

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine.

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top then you
will see how-low it really was." - Dag Hammarskjold.

"Never let a day pass you without saying, I will do better tomorrow." - Brigham Young.

YOU'VE GROWN

If you look back at your challenges from last year, you will notice that they
are not as big and as scary as they used to be.

If your past challenges seem smaller, it's not because they shrank but rather
because YOU grew. You are not today, who you were yesterday;
nor will you be tomorrow who you are today.

Everyday you outgrow many of your old scary challenges. Everyday you will be
able to do something, which couldn't do before simply because you've grown.

"If you couldn't do something yesterday, it doesn't mean that you cannot do it today.
For who you are today is not who you used to be." - Andres Lara.

PERCEPTION: QUOTES

"Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for.
What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality."
- Gary Zukay.

"All is perspective. To a worm, digging the ground is more relaxing than going fishing."
- Clyde Abel.

"The same lion that draws frantic tears from our eyes in the dark jungle will have us joyfully
giggle in a circus." - Andres Lara.

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus, Adages.

START CLIMBING

A magnifying glass can make a tiny pebble look as big as a mountain,
a little drop of water as a big as the ocean, and a small mosquito as big
as a dinosaur.

Your perception can blow things out of proportion just like a magnifying glass.
At times what you actually see and your perception about what you
see are two different things.

What if that mountain which is preventing you from moving forward is
nothing more than a tiny pebble enlarged by your perception? Find out.
Start climbing.

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem
bigger than it really is." - Kahlil Gibran.