Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Motivation is a desire within ourselves to work toward or against something.
In my psychology course I was learning about motivation and thought I would post some things I learned.
Motivation is a desire within ourselves to work toward or against something. It is said to be either intrinsic or extrinsic. I don't think others can motivate us it has to come from within ourselves. Others can influence us and inspire us in different ways good or bad but for the most part I think motivation has to come from us and our own drive or need to achieve a desired goal. I think how hard we push ourselves to a goal and not give up depends on how bad we really want it or how important it is to us. If we go after a goal for the wrong reasons we are more likely to give up on it or not get enjoyment out of it. Different things can factor into whether we keep at a goal or give up when things get tough.
1. Some people's goals and whether they stick with them are based on performance. People that set performance type goals are mostly concerned with performing well in front of others and being judged favorably. They like and want the praise of others for their goals and achievements. They don't want to be criticized and if they feel like they are being seen in a negative way and if others criticize them because they did poorly at something they tend to give up. They blame themselves for not doing well and stop trying which then in turn prevents them from improving. They tell themselves, they are stupid and can't do it and that they will never get better. They put themselves down and say others think negative of them, that others see them as an idiot. They prefer goals that are easy for them to accomplish without much challenge to them.
2. In my opinion mastery (learning) goals seem to be a better kind of goal to set for yourself than a performance goal. With mastery (learning) goals you are more focused and concerned with increasing your knowledge and skills and finding intrinsic pleasure in whatever you are seeking to learn and achieve (Dweck & Sorich, 1999; Grant & Dweck, 2003.) When people are motivated to master new skills for the pleasure of it and to increase their knowledge of it they will usually think of failure as a useful tool to learn from it to improve. They know what learning takes and that you have to sometimes fail or make mistakes to learn and grow from them. They don't become easily discouraged by failure or criticism. They know that with learning something new that we sometimes will temporarily fail, but if we keep moving forward and learn from it we can make progress and keep getting better at it. You are less likely to give up on your goal if you get pleasure from it and learn from it and aren't doing it for others.
3. In one study, 128 Anglo, African American, and Hispanic fifth graders were ask to independently work on sets of puzzles. The experimenter praised some on their intelligence and some on their efforts. Then they were given more time and harder sets of puzzles. This time the experimenter told them they did worse. The researchers found that the children praised for being smart rather than for working hard tended to lose the pleasure of learning and focused on how well they were doing. After the children failed the second set of problems they seemed to give up more on the subsequent ones, got less pleasure from them and performed less well than the children that were praised for their efforts instead of intelligence. Studies showed that when children realize that all effort is subject to improvement, they realize they can always try again. That is the key to mastery (Dweck & Sorich, 1999). Mastery goals are powerful intrinsic motivators at all levels of education throughout life. But, some people do improve with performance goals like Olympic athletes and musicians and some people combine performance and mastery goals together. To me it seems as if people prefer performance goals when they are receiving positive feedback and it helps them want to continuing doing a good job to get more praise. But to work toward a goal for intrinsic pleasure seems more rewarding, at least to me.
4. How hard a person works for something also depends on the persons expectations. If you are fairly certain of success, you will work harder to reach the goal. But, if you are certain of failing the goal you wont work as hard. Your expectations can create a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you expect yourself to fail you most likely will. If you think you will succeed you have a higher chance that you will. For example in a classic experiment young women were asked to solve 15 anagram puzzles. Before working on each one, they had to estimate their chances of solving it. Half of the women started off with very easy anagrams, but the other half insoluble ones. Those that started with the impossible ones decided they would all be impossible. These expectations, affected the young women's ability to solve the rest of the anagrams. The higher the expectation of success, the more anagrams the women solved (Feather, 1996). I think this makes "believing in yourself" very important because your attitude and belief in yourself to be able to do something can affect whether you do or give-up when you don't do well.
Motivation is a desire within ourselves to work toward or against something. It is said to be either intrinsic or extrinsic. I don't think others can motivate us it has to come from within ourselves. Others can influence us and inspire us in different ways good or bad but for the most part I think motivation has to come from us and our own drive or need to achieve a desired goal. I think how hard we push ourselves to a goal and not give up depends on how bad we really want it or how important it is to us. If we go after a goal for the wrong reasons we are more likely to give up on it or not get enjoyment out of it. Different things can factor into whether we keep at a goal or give up when things get tough.
1. Some people's goals and whether they stick with them are based on performance. People that set performance type goals are mostly concerned with performing well in front of others and being judged favorably. They like and want the praise of others for their goals and achievements. They don't want to be criticized and if they feel like they are being seen in a negative way and if others criticize them because they did poorly at something they tend to give up. They blame themselves for not doing well and stop trying which then in turn prevents them from improving. They tell themselves, they are stupid and can't do it and that they will never get better. They put themselves down and say others think negative of them, that others see them as an idiot. They prefer goals that are easy for them to accomplish without much challenge to them.
2. In my opinion mastery (learning) goals seem to be a better kind of goal to set for yourself than a performance goal. With mastery (learning) goals you are more focused and concerned with increasing your knowledge and skills and finding intrinsic pleasure in whatever you are seeking to learn and achieve (Dweck & Sorich, 1999; Grant & Dweck, 2003.) When people are motivated to master new skills for the pleasure of it and to increase their knowledge of it they will usually think of failure as a useful tool to learn from it to improve. They know what learning takes and that you have to sometimes fail or make mistakes to learn and grow from them. They don't become easily discouraged by failure or criticism. They know that with learning something new that we sometimes will temporarily fail, but if we keep moving forward and learn from it we can make progress and keep getting better at it. You are less likely to give up on your goal if you get pleasure from it and learn from it and aren't doing it for others.
3. In one study, 128 Anglo, African American, and Hispanic fifth graders were ask to independently work on sets of puzzles. The experimenter praised some on their intelligence and some on their efforts. Then they were given more time and harder sets of puzzles. This time the experimenter told them they did worse. The researchers found that the children praised for being smart rather than for working hard tended to lose the pleasure of learning and focused on how well they were doing. After the children failed the second set of problems they seemed to give up more on the subsequent ones, got less pleasure from them and performed less well than the children that were praised for their efforts instead of intelligence. Studies showed that when children realize that all effort is subject to improvement, they realize they can always try again. That is the key to mastery (Dweck & Sorich, 1999). Mastery goals are powerful intrinsic motivators at all levels of education throughout life. But, some people do improve with performance goals like Olympic athletes and musicians and some people combine performance and mastery goals together. To me it seems as if people prefer performance goals when they are receiving positive feedback and it helps them want to continuing doing a good job to get more praise. But to work toward a goal for intrinsic pleasure seems more rewarding, at least to me.
4. How hard a person works for something also depends on the persons expectations. If you are fairly certain of success, you will work harder to reach the goal. But, if you are certain of failing the goal you wont work as hard. Your expectations can create a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you expect yourself to fail you most likely will. If you think you will succeed you have a higher chance that you will. For example in a classic experiment young women were asked to solve 15 anagram puzzles. Before working on each one, they had to estimate their chances of solving it. Half of the women started off with very easy anagrams, but the other half insoluble ones. Those that started with the impossible ones decided they would all be impossible. These expectations, affected the young women's ability to solve the rest of the anagrams. The higher the expectation of success, the more anagrams the women solved (Feather, 1996). I think this makes "believing in yourself" very important because your attitude and belief in yourself to be able to do something can affect whether you do or give-up when you don't do well.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
After A While - by Veronica A. Shoffstall (A Poem I found and liked and thought I'd share it.)
After A While - by Veronica A. Shoffstall
After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down
in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye, you learn...
After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down
in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye, you learn...
Just some of my favorite Arthur Schopenhauer and Albert Einstein quotes.
I had these quotes posted on Facebook a while back but decided to post them on my blog as well.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation, as to spare it the burden of existence? Or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood.
-Arthur Schopenhauer from "Sufferings of the World" (1851)
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
-Arthur Schopenhauer -
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
-Arthur Schopenhauer -
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-Albert Einstein
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
-Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
-Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Albert Einstein
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
-Albert Einstein
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
-Albert Einstein
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation, as to spare it the burden of existence? Or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood.
-Arthur Schopenhauer from "Sufferings of the World" (1851)
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
-Arthur Schopenhauer -
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
-Arthur Schopenhauer -
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-Albert Einstein
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
-Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
-Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Albert Einstein
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
-Albert Einstein
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
-Albert Einstein
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Quotes About Forgiveness
A few quotes about forgiveness that I found. I have been struggling with forgiveness a lot lately. Alright, more like I have struggled with forgiveness my whole life. I have held grudges. I have trouble letting things go. I can hold on to things that bother me and upset me for a long time. I can feel like one day I can forgive something or someone but then maybe the next day or later on it still bothers me and upsets me. I end up thinking negative about it or the situation again so I was in need of some inspirational quotes to help me think more about forgiving.
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." ~ Bryant H. McGill
"Forgiveness is the final form of love. "~ Reinhold Niebuhr
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." ~ Hannah More
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." ~ Hannah Arendt
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." ~ Alice Duer Miller
"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future." ~ Bernard Meltzer
"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person." ~ Janine Turner
"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited." ~ Lewis B. Smedes
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven." ~ Thomas Fuller
"Forgiveness is the final form of love. "~ Reinhold Niebuhr
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." ~ Hannah More
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." ~ Hannah Arendt
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." ~ Alice Duer Miller
"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future." ~ Bernard Meltzer
"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person." ~ Janine Turner
"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited." ~ Lewis B. Smedes
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven." ~ Thomas Fuller
“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.” ~ Sara Paddison quotes
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” ~ Lewis B. Smedes quotes
“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” ~ Paul Boese
“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace” ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” ~ Saint Augustine quotes
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." --Cherie Carter-Scott
"Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die."—Nelson Mandela
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." --Jessamyn West
"Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." --Anonymous
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"-- Abraham Lincoln
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare." - Lance Morrow
"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future." ~ Louis B. Smedes
"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it." ~ Louis B. Smedes
Some Positive and Motivational Quotes
Some quotes I found didn't have the author of the quote listed and are unknown. If anyone knows an author of a quote I listed as unknown if you message me and let me know who said the quote I will credit them for it.
Some Positive And Inspirational Quotes:
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." ~ Coretta Scott King
"My dear friend, may your day be filled with blessings, and may you always have the courage to spread your wings and fly." ~Unknown
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.” ~ unknown
"Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what" ~ unknown
"Learn from yesterday, live for today hope for tomorrow." ~ unknown
"No one knows what they can do until they try." ~ unknown
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says I will try again tomorrow." ~unknown
"Actions speak louder than words." ~unknown
"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." ~unknown
"Instead of giving yourself reasons why you can't give yourself reason why you can." ~unknown
"The only way to move a mountain is to either tear it down or climb over it." Me (Kelly)
"People are usually more disappointed by the things they didn't do than they are by the one's they did." ~unknown
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask the answer is always no. If you don't step forward you are always stuck in the same place. ~unknown
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” ~unknown
“Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before" ~unknown
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Never say, I can't...It's all in your head...You can succeed in whatever you set your mind to...If you want it bad enough, then get motivated & work for it!
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." ~William E. Channing~
~Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.~ ~Bernice Johnson Reagon~
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."~C. Malesherbes~
"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~
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"~Kennedy, John F.~
"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."~Walt Disney~
"A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer."~Catherine Pulsifer~
"So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win."~Og Mandino~
"We will either find a way, or make one!"~Hannibal~
"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered."~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer~
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."~Robert G. Ingersoll~
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."~Vernon Howard~
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."~John Quincy Adams~
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."~Thomas Edison~
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."~Winston Churchill~
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."~Benjamin Franklin~
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."~George W. Carver~
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."~Mark Twain~
"The difficulty you are struggling with is the reason why someone else somewhere on this earth knows that they can overcome just about anything!" ~Unknown
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending!"~ Unknown Author
"A soldier is not fatigued by fighting, it is the motivation of the fight that either wears him out or pushes him on." ~ Unknown
" Do it now " - Napolean
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog." ~ Unknown
"Making mistakes is ok. Show me a man who hasn't made mistakes and I will show you someone who hasn't made anything." -Mohak Pachisia
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away." ~Unknown
"Imagination is more important then knowledge. Knowledge is limited... Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"The positive Thinker: Sees the invisible, Feels the intangible & achieves the impossible" ~Unknown
"Ups and downs are the part of life, but how you are going to take it is art of life." - Man Mohan Joshi
"If you try you might if you don't you won't." ~Unknown
"There is always a solution to a problem. Find it, do something about it, and move forward." ~Unknown
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Unknown
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." -- Albert Schweitzer
"No PESSIMIST ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." --Helen Keller
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them." –-Colton
"To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed." --Bernard Edmonds
"Failure is an opinion. It is either an educational tool for starting over or an excuse breeding tool for saying it's over." -- Doug Firebaugh
"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution." --Dr. David Schwartz Author of "The Magic of Thinking Big"
"The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful.--Brian Tracy
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." -- Harry Truman
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." -- Denis Waitley
"There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living." -- George Sheehan
"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly." -- Tom Hopkins
"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize." -- Norman Vincent Peale
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