Metaphors

The label you put on yourself will ultimately determine how you live, where you live, what you eat, what you wear, who you'll speak to, as well as the words you choose in your self-talk. What is your identity? What are your beliefs? How have they limited your life?

There are two reasons why things never get done: either they never get started or they never get finished.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

You can always look back, just don't stare!

Seek to understand, and then seek to be understood.

The mind never hears until the heart has listened.

Those who speak the loudest don't always have the most to say.

It seems like every time history repeats itself, the price doubles.

Expecting the world to be fair to you because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.

The ladder of success may now be an elevator, but it's still self-service.

There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to become a butterfly.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization.

Fault-finding is like window-washing. All the dirt seems to be on the other side.

Remember that the door to opportunity swings two ways-in and out!

If you learn to develop a success-consciousness, your subconscious will work positively for you 24-hours a day-even when you're asleep!

Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind, ignorance, or a refusal to believe.

Don't cry about loss-God never takes anything away without replacing it. Think positive, especially in times of difficulty.

It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.

Spend less time deciding "who" is right and more time deciding "what" is right.

The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.

You'll never know love until you surrender to it.

I don't make too many mistakes with my mouth shut.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you had better know what you're talking about.

Maturity is the stage of life when, even if you don't see eye to eye, you can walk hand in hand.

Our dreams propel us. Our doubts anchor us.

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Quotes

"I found television very educational. Every time someone turned it on, I went in the other room to read a book." Groucho Marx

"If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy." Jed Clampett

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life." George Burns

"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer." Ace Ventura , Pet Detective

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill

"Every animal knows more than you do." Native American Proverb

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." Doug Larson

"Ring the bell that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen

"You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails." Anthony Robbins

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." Henri L. Bergson   

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life." Frank Zappa    

"All human evil comes from a single cause: man's inability to sit still in a room." Blaise Pascal

"When you are looking into your future, it's important to know which questions to ask. You don't need to ask, "Do I have what it takes to be successful?" The answer to that is a resounding "YES!" The key question is, "Am I willing to pay the price for the success I desire?" Kathy R. Caulton

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be consistently fearing you will make one." Elbert Hubbard

"Anger is one letter away from danger." Eleanor Roosevelt
 
"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life." Les Brown

"We create the situations and then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing have any power over us for "WE" are the only thinkers in our mind." Louise Hay

"Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase." Dottie Walters

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." Oscar Wilde

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear." Anthony Robbins

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Maureen Dowd

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes." Antisthenes

"If you want to know your past-look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future-look into your present actions." Buddhist saying

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." Earl Wilson

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss." Thomas Carlyle

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." Charles Evans Hughes

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." Herbert Gardner

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience-well, that comes from poor judgment." Anonymous

"He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap." Anonymous

"Knock, Knock Who's there? Opportunity . Don't be silly-opportunity doesn't knock twice!" Anonymous

"The most effective answer to an insult is silence." Anonymous

"Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow." Anonymous

"When the going seems easy, you may be going downhill." Anonymous

"Worry takes as much time as work and pays less." Anonymous

"Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it." Anonymous

"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people." George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with a rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat." Lilly Tomlin

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools." Spanish Proverb

"I've come to believe that all my past failures and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." Anthony Robbins

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Whitney Young, Jr.

"Dreams have as much influence as actions." Stephane Mallarme

"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile." Anonymous

"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing." Ed Foreman

"Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." Liz Smith

"Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"You can't get ahead while getting even." Dick Armey

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." Voltaire

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." Henry J. Kaiser

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much." Joan Collins

"The road to someday leads to the town of nowhere. Procrastination is the silent killer." Anthony Robbins

"If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution." Unknown

"Life is just like the game 'Jeopardy!' All the answers are there, all you have to do is come up with the right questions to win." Anthony Robbins

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." Vince Lombardi

"Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid that are ever afraid of the consequences." Jawaharlal Nehru

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." George Shultz

"Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase." Dottie Walters

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain

"Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it will turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much." William Gaines  

"Fight fire with fire and all you'll end up with is ashes." Abigail Van Buren

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done." Cardinal Newman

"Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions determine your habits. Your habits determine your character. And your character gives birth to your destiny." Unknown

"I just love when people say I can't do something...because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it." Ted Turner

"When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them, like shadows." David Viscott

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles." George Elliot

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it." Emerson

"Bravery is believing in yourself, and that is something no one can teach you." El Cordobes

"Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck." Anonymous

"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps." Peter A. Cohen

"If you do not believe in yourself, very few other people will. Anonymous success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well." Anonymous

"Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness." James Thurber

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Carl Jung

"Until further notice, celebrate everything." Unknown

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"People are like tea bags: They never realize their strength until they're dropped in hot water." Unknown

"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years." Bob Brown

"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure." Jean Kerr

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." Colin L. Powell

"Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid that are ever afraid of the consequences." Jawaharlal Nehru

"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." Zig Ziglar

"A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." Samuel Johnson

"Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate." Unknown

"When in doubt, do without." Vincount Herbert Samuel

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." William Arthur

"Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know." Eric Allenbaugh

"Every flower must grow through dirt." Unknown

"It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." Anthony Robbins

"Do whatever it takes to achieve what you want. Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable.' If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel." Unknown

"He that lives upon hope dies fasting." Benjamin Franklin

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I realized it sooner." Collette

"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford