Quotes 4

*Contrary to most of our scripting, "to win" does not mean somebody else has to lose..

*Much of our pain in life comes from the sense that we're succeeding in one role at the expense of other, possibly even more important roles..

* It pays to examine each activity carefully and determine which quadrant it's really in. It may feel urgent. Is it ? Or does it just seem that way because someone or something else is creating pressure ? Is it really important ? Or has the feeling of urgency made it only seem important ?..

*Content in context empowers you to make more wise and effective decisions in your moments of choice..

*Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom..

*Stand apart from your dreams. Look at them. Write about them. Wrestle with them until you're convinced they're based on principles that will bring results. Then use your creative imagination to explore new applications, new ways of doing things that have the principle - based power to translate dreaming to doing..

*Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow..

*Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human..

*I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.. 

*One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.. 

*Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news: The news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish!.. 

*It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in awhile and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.. 

*Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.. 

*The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.. 

* When we make and keep commitments, such as setting and achieving goals, we make deposits.We increase ou7r confidence in our own trustworthiness, in our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves and others. A high balance in this account is a great source of strength and security..

*At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent..