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words of wisdom

ABILITY
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability." Author Unknown

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm"
Winston Churchill

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
Malcolm S. Forbes

"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
Bernard Mannes Baruch

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Arnold H. Glasgow

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Longfellow

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
Henry Ford

"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."
Fred A. Manske, Jr.

"Natural abilities are like natural plants;
they need pruning by study."
Francis Bacon

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We all have ability.
The difference is how we use it."
Stevie Wonder

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."
Robert Frost

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
Zig Ziglar

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;
it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
Booker T. Washington

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
Josh Billings

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
Napoleon

"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."
Dr. Joyce Brothers

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."
Jim Rohn

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
Baltasar Gracian

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
Andrew Carnegie

"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."
Anthony Robbins

“They are able because they think they are able.”
Vergil

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
Elbert Hubbard

"We are our own coach and team
Yet we often sideline our best efforts.
We all have unique gifts and talents,
Yet many pass undiscovered.
The world is full of opportunities,
Yet our view of life can blind us to them.
We are all capable of so much,
Yet limited by so little."
Donald S. Neviaser, The Inner View, Life Enhancing Perspectives

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life"
Dr. David M. Burns

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
George Allen

"You have to have confidence in your ability,
and then be tough enough to follow through."
Rosalynn Smith Carter

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist,
but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but wewill never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer."
Thomas J. Watson

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
Samuel Goldwyn

“As is our confidence,
so is our capacity.”
William Hazlitt

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...
and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
Lou Holtz

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility,
in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have
is the ability to take on responsibility."
Michael Korda

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not."
Thomas Huxley

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
Helen Keller

ATTITUDE
"Your attitudes and the choices you make today
will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely."
Author Unknown
"Keep a positive outlook even when faced with life challenges."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
James Truslow Adams

"Your words, your expressions will reflect your attitude.
Be conscious of how and what you say."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are."
Napoleon Hill

"The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Dr. Viktor E. Frankl

"Learning to control and adjust your attitude to a positive one reflects wisdom of mind."
Catherine Pulsifer

"You cannot control what happens to you,
but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you,
and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
Brian Tracy

"Your outlook determines your output."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.
But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude.
In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."
Katharine Hepburn
"Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude."
Funmi Wale-Adegbite

"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution."
Wernher von Braun

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."
Charles R. Swindoll

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
Anthony J. D'Angelo

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Two men looked out from prison bars,
one saw the mud, the other the stars."
Author Unknown...SUBMITTED BY Sato

"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you."
Napoleon Hill

"The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts."
Fulton J. Sheen

"The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities."
Author Unknown

"Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you."
Author Unknown

"If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one."
Cavett Robert

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought;
what we think we become."
Buddha

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
Hubert Humphrey

"This world is a great gymnasium
where we come to make ourselves strong."
Swami Vivekananda...submitted by Uday

"It is your disabled attitude that determines your disability and it is your disability that can or can't close opportunities in life for you."
William Ngwako Maphoto

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
Scott Hamilton

"You cannot be healthy;
you cannot be happy;
you cannot be prosperous;
if you have a bad disposition.”
Emmet Fox

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."
Author Unknown

"When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up."
Roger W. Babson

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz

"Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious."
Bill Meyer

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
William James (1842-1910)

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."
Francesca Reigler

BEHAVIOR
"Believing in yourself is not for you; it's for every person who has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your life will touch the same way five minutes from now, or five centuries from now."
Jaye Miller

"When you throw dirt you lose ground."
Submitted by Lauren

"Don't make excuses- make good."
Elbert Hubbard

“What you do not want others to do to you,
do not do to others.”
Confucius

"If somebody is calling you names they are acting off their opinions.
Opinions are opinions they are NOT THE TRUTH!!!"
Submitted by M. Tattersall

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
Try the 'as if' technique.”
William James

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
Author Unknown

"You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life."
Eric Allenbaugh
"Model the behavior in your everyday life in a way that always reflects how you would like to be treated."
Byron Pulsifer, from You Will Never Be Sorry

"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."
Stephen Covey

“This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night to day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Shakespeare

"Don't think that by reading a book, and changing some of your behaviors, that tomorrow will bring you recognition, or a promotion."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Why Are Some People More Successful Than Others?

"There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule."
Samuel Butler

"When you change your behavior, you change your performance." Author Unknown, from By Changing Your Thinking

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
George W. Crane

"Anytime you attempt to change a longstanding behavior, you may initially see a worsening of the behavior being targeted."
Jacquie McTaggart

"The thought is not the act."
Joan Ebbitt

“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
Nadia Boulanger

“I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice?
“Margo, don’t be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.”
Margo Kaufman

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
The Road To Success is Always Under Construction

"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."
Aristotle

“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”
Dr. Rob Gilbert

"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."
Fran Tarkenton

"We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought."
Marsha Sinetar

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
Rene Descartes

"Feel the feeling. Choose the behavior."
Charles Rumberg

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 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

“Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.”
Marsha Sinetar

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

“She didn’t know it couldn’t be done, so she went ahead and did it.”
Bridget O’Donnell

“It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.”
Lin Yutang