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Some people choose to hang a favorite piece of wall art to inspire containing a motivational word and picture near their desk or work area while others use a favorite quote or several quotations on their computer desktop.




Human being are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
Mary Angelou, Wouldn?t Take Nothing For My Journey Now

Meaningful experience, the ability to synthesize, and wisdom itself are somewhat related to age.
Gordon F. Shea and Adolf Haasen, The Older Worker Advantage, Making The Most Of Our Aging Workforce

Whenever we are attached to having something a certain way, better than it already is, we are, almost by definition, engaged in a losing battle. Rather than being content and grateful for what we have, we are focused on what's wrong with something and our need to fix it.
Richard Carlson, Ph.D., Don't Sweat The Small Stuff? and it's all small stuff

You cannot succeed in a vacuum; there needs to be substance and resistance or your world is no more than a dream.
~ Byron Pulsifer

You can't achieve a big goal by yourself. You are going to need the help of other people. And the bigger your objective, the more help you are going to need.
~ Eric J. Aronson, Dash

Rather than be discouraged, always remember that rejection and resistance are almost guaranteed when you are doing something very important and very special.
~ Bradley Trevor Greive, The Meaning Of Life

We break our necks to earn respect and admiration, only to discover that we really have no control over how others perceive us.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations For Women Who Do Too Much

The more worthwhile your goals are, the easier it is to follow the principles of success in achieving them.
~ Napoleon Hill, Napoleon Hill's A Year Of Growing Rich: Fifty-Two Steps To Achieving Life's Rewards

No one forces you to learn. You'll learn when you want to.
~ Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul

A much more common cause for a lack of bonding between the teacher and the student is the result of a parent demeaning the teacher in front of jis child.
~ Jacquie McTaggart, From The Taeacher's Desk

Give yourself permission to be a passionate person. Be passionate about anything or anyone you choose, without interference from your inner critic.
~ Wayne W. Dyer, Wisdom of the Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment

Failure is an option (innovation requires risk) but fear is not.
~ David Holt, "Testing Leadership On The Blue Ocean." Progress


If you can't envision a new life, you will never have it.
Byron Pulsifer,

Reading about other people's success either encourages you to move forward, or it is only a story of interest.
Byron Pulsifer,

Just take things one step at a time and make some new footprints-hopefully you will soon see that the footprints of others who have done good work cross paths with yours!
Margaret Fishback Powers, The Footprints Book Of Daily Inspirations.

Coaching and counseling helps you achieve your goals. Giving your power away is allowing someone else to create and define your goals.
Melissa Perry Moraja, Empower Your Soul: Create Balance in Your Life by Trusting Your Intuition

Mistakes happen; what was thought to have been corrected was not; neither circumstance is reason to quit or to look for excuses. The only part of life in your control is the now - right now, so make the most of it and proceed with strength of character.
Byron Pulsifer

You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light.
Hope MacDonald, What I Wish For You

Some people see the aging process as the law of diminishing returns, I prefer to look at it as Nature?s way of coordinating knowledge, experience and focus.
Steve Smith, Red Green?s Duct Tape Is Not Enough

Tyranny and oppression are just as possible under democratic forms as under any other. We are slow to realize that democracy is a life and involves continual struggle.
Jeanne Larson & Madge Micheels-Cyrus, Seeds Of Peace

At its primary, most elemental level, love is acceptance. Those who love you take you just as you are. Then they expect you to view yourself as already accepted by them, in spite of your limitations, your failures, and all that you find unacceptable in yourself.
Duke Robinson, Good Intentions

The answer to how you want to be perceived in the world is, at its simplest: I want to be seen as a truthful person. You want the truth of who you believe you are to mesh with what you?re projecting outward.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, Being In Balance

If you can change the world of those connected to you by making their lives better, happier, safer and full of love, then you?ve changed that person and their world. More importantly, you?ve given them the motive and drive to do the same for the people in their lives.
Mark Black, Live Life From The Heart

In a very real way, what we experience in our lives is a mirrored image of the values, beliefs, and images we hold within our own consciousness. What we experience shifts considerably as our consciousness changes.
Shakti Gawain, The Path Of Transformation

To see yourself as a self-community is to realize that your finest moments are in concert with others ? working on tasks, dancing, playing team sports, performing in a play or playing in an orchestra, reading a book someone else has written, going to a picnic, or partying.
Duke Robinson, Good Intentions

It is sad when people who give to the needy feel estranged from the objects of their generosity. They can take little, if any, relish from their acts of charity; therefore, are generous out of duty than delight.
Mary Angelou, Wouldn?t Take Nothing For My Journey Now

To be really alive means more than to be a moving, breathing, eating, drinking and talking human creature. She who is actually alive finds the days too short for all wonderful explorations which life offers.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, What I Wish For You

Among the great and glorious gifts our heavenly Father sends is the gift of understanding that we find in loving friends?
Helen Steiner Rice, The Poems And Prayers Of Helen Steiner Rice

I used all five of my senses to imagine that I was already enjoying being on the higher peak. I imagined what I would see, touch, smell, and hear. As I did, my fear faded and it gave me the energy and enthusiasm to go for it.
~ Spencer Johnson, M.D., Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You-At Work And In Life

In the beginning there was a dream; in the middle a plan, and in the end an accomplishment all combined with action repeated daily.
~ Byron Pulsifer

There is only a perfect time to start working towards a goal; right now.
~ Byron Pulsifer

Time is passing by, but attitudes and behaviours are always remembered.
~ Byron Pulsifer