Thought for Today

“You have to believe in order to achieve and ultimately succeed”

My synopsis of Napolean Hill’s – T&GR – Ch 4

======== June 10, 2009 ========

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”- Norman Vincent Peale

======== June 7, 2009 ========

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

======== May 29, 2009 ========

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”- Dale Carnegie

======== May 21, 2009 ========

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

======== May 6, 2009 ========

“To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.” – - Jim Rohn

======== May 5, 2009 ========

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.” - Norman Vincent Peale

======== May 3, 2009 ========

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.”- Daniel H. Burnham

======== April 22, 2009 ========

“If you have absolutely no idea where you want to go, any road will take you there. If, however you have a definite destination, it would be wise to choose the road that offers the most direct route” - Martin Matthews

======== April 20, 2009 ========

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to thank with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer

======== April 19, 2009 ========

“You can always see the Pioneers, they are the ones on the side of the road with arrows in their back” – John Carlton

======== April 18, 2009 ========

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do.”- Andrew Carnegie

======== April 11, 2009 ========

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work” - Colin Powell

======== April 9, 2009 ========

“All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

======== April 5, 2009 ========

“Common sense is the sum total of all prejudice deposited in the human mind prior to the age of 18.” - Albert Einstein

======== April 2, 2009 ========

“I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.” - Walt Disney

======== April 1, 2009 ========

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” - Calvin Coolidge

======== March 31, 2009 ========

“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” - Robert Fritz

======== March 30, 2009 ========

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a Force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” - George Bernard Shaw

======== March 29, 2009 ========

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” - Oprah Winfrey

======== March 28, 2009 ========

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.” - Ronald Reagan

======== March 27, 2009 ========

“We all have been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else’s idea of life.” - James Van Praagh

======== March 26, 2009 ========

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw

======== March 25, 2009 ========

This is a true today as it was back in the 1960’s with one little change; rather than just considering the strength of our nation, let’s consider extending it to everyone in the World …..

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” -John F. Kennedy