Weekender January 26, 2002
Volume 4, Issue 4
Determination
Quote: There's no impossibility to him who stands
prepared to conquer every hazard. The
fearful are the failing.
Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879) was an American writer.
Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations
compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner
Fear
Quote: You must never run from fear. You must face
it. Fear is a tracker that will hunt you down.
Lynn Andrews studies and writes on ancient wisdom.
Source: Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews
by Lynn Andrews
UK
Courage
Quote: It is not the critic who counts, not the man
who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doers of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena; whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again
and again... who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, and spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the least knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement; and who,
at the worst, if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th president of
the United States.
Source: The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
UK
Hope
Quote: I call hope my "pilot light" because I now
know that, without it, we truly cease to exist.
Vickie Girard is a breast cancer survivor and
writer.
Source: There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mind-Sized Bites
by Vickie Girard
UK
Problems
Quote: Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep
things in perspective. The odds are that your
problem is solvable. Address the solution and
don't dwell on the problem to the point at
which it paralyzes you.
Harvey Mackay is the president and CEO of Mackay
Envelope Corp. He is a nationally syndicated columnist
and best-selling author.
Source: "Out of pressure, positive results can evolve"
by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, 10/24/2001
Bonus Reading on Success
by David Dimas
In the year 1723, a seventeen year-old boy arrived in Philadelphia without a penny to his name. At age 42, he retired, wealthy. Few men, before or since have ever been as successful as Benjamin Franklin. He gave credit for his many inventions and business successes to this list of 13 principles. Each of them should be practiced in order, for a week at a time, so that all of them become a habit in your life. They'll work as well today as they did then. 1. Temperance: Eat not dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing. 6. Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity: Use no harmful deceit; think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. Justice: wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. Moderation: Avoid extremes; forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation. 11. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, nor at accidents. 12. Chastity: Be chaste in matters with the opposite sex. 13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
If you would be wealthy, think of savings as well as getting.
Drive thy business or thy business will drive thee.
© 2002 David Dimas |