“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” ~ Alfred A. Montapert
“Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work, and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.” ~ Hamilton Holt
“Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them…” ~ Edgar Watson Howe
“Success, is on the far side of failure.” ~ T.J. Watson
“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Anytime we think the problem is ‘out there’, that thought is the problem.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“Its not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” ~ Stephen Covey
“I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” ~ Stephen Covey
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven know how to put a proper price on its goods.” ~ Thomas Paine
“Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.” ~ Stephen Covey
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.” ~ Marilyn Ferguson
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” ~ Unknown
“If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Borrowing strength builds weakness.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.” ~ Henry Thoreau
“If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.” ~ George Hubbs
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.” ~ David Starr Jordan