Doug Gazlay- ByDoug Client Care Center- Inspirational Thoughts for the day!

The following quotations are here to inspire you and hopefully help you break through to a better life and day. The sources are from: THE BOOK OF POSITIVE QUOTES (2nd Edition) compiled and arranged by John Cook, YOUR BEST LIFE NOW by Joel Osteen and various songwriters (acknowledged independently).

07-10-08: "Until you know that life is interesting, and find it so, you haven't found your soul." -Goeffrey Fisher

07-09-08: "People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves." -Tyron Edwards

07-07-08: "Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it inot ugliness. It's in our hands." -Cathy Better

07-06-08: "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." -C. S. Lewis

07-05-08: "It is a privilege of living to be.... acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing." -Marya Mannes

07-04-08: "God Bless America. Land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above. ..." -Irving Berlin (partial lyrics to "GOD BLESS AMERICA")

07-03-08: "We cannot had our faith to one another... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual." -John Jay Chapman

07-02-08: "You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." -Woodrow Wilson

07-01-08: "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on a beach." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

06-29-08: "Family life is the greatest source for human happiness." -Robert J. Havighurst

06-28-08: "There is on cosmetic for beauty like happiness." -Lady Marguerite Blessington

06-27-08: "The only peace, the only security, is in fullfillment." -Henry Miller

06-26-08: "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." -William Ralph Inge

06-25-08: "Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity." -John Dryden

06-24-08: "No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart." -J.C. Ryle

06-22-08: "Try first thyself, and after call in God. For to the worker God Himself lends aid." -Euripides

06-19-08: "Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will." -Mary W. Stewart

06-18-08: "A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about." -Anon

06-15-08: "Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do." -Quintus Ennius

06-14-08: "Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it." -Oswald Chambers

06-12-08: "If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose." -Malcom Forbes

06-10-08: "Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse." -Pindar

06-08-08: "The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yard-stick for measuring the Divine omnipotence." -Thérése of Lisieux

06-07-08: "Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work." -Anna Pavlova

06-06-08: "The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." -Moliere

06-01-08: "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."
-W. H. Murray

05-31-08: "It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring." -Harriet Martineau

05-30-08: "The pessimist is half-licked before he starts." -Thomas A. Buckner

05-29-08: "It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be tied to a cross man." -Augusta Gregory

05-25-08: "Take risks; if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." -Anon

05-24-08: "There is no movement without our own resistance." -Dr. Laura Schlessinger

05-23-08: "If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide." -Mahatma Gandhi

05-22-08: "Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God." -Sydney Smith

05-20-08: "When you step out on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like... It doesn't help your 5-ioron if you're pretty." -Laura Baugh

05-19-08: "A comprehended God is no God at all." -Gerhard Tersteegen

05-18-08: "Live with no time out." -Simone de Beauvoir

05-15-08: "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." -Charles M. Schwab

05-14-08: "I am not afraid of tomorrow because I have seen yesterday and I love today." -William Allen White

05-13-08: "I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best." -Flannery O-Connor

05-12-08: "Getting fit is a political act- you are taking charge of your life." -Jane Fonda

05-11-08: "When I need a shelter, when I need a friend, I go to The Rock."
-Lyric from "I GO TO THE ROCK"- Dottie Rambo

(Honoring Dottie Rambo's passing in a bus crash today.
Her music has inspired millions, including this webmaster. Dottie Rambo 74yo)

05-10-08: "No man can have society upon his own terms." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

05-09-08: "An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves." -Lydia M. Child

05-08-08: "Let God love you through others and let God love others through you." -D.M. Street

05-05-08: "In the life of the spirit there in no ending that is not a beginning." -Henrietta Zolde

05-04-08: "He who reflects much will achieve little." -J. C. F. von Schiller

04-30-08: "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps." -David Lloyd George

04-27-08: "The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship." -Alexander Pope

04-25-08: "The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." -William Shakespeare

04-24-08: "It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it." -General Douglas MacArthur

04-23-08: "We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and the courage to stop what we shouldn't do." -Richard L. Evans

04-22-08: "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning." -Billy Wilder

04-20-08: "No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
-President, Dwight D. Eisenhower

04-19-08: "Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?" -L. E. Landon

04-17-08: "Faith is an encounter in which God takes and keeps the initiative." -Eugene Joly

04-16-08: "One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter." -Kathleen Norris

04-14-08: "It is what you are inside that matters. You, yourself, are your only real capital." -Vladimir Zworykin

04-13-08: "Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without." -LeRoy Douglas

04-11-08: "Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm." -Vauvenarues

04-10-08: "Concerns should drive us into action, not depression." -Karen Horney

04-08-08: "A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself." -Axel Munthe

04-05-08: "Men at some times are masters of their fates." -William Shakespeare

04-04-08: "Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future." -Gelsey Kirkland

04-03-08: "When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith." -Edith Hamilton

03-31-08: "The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time." -Alexander Smith

03-30-08: "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain

03-29-08: "My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season." -Mary Todd Lincoln

03-28-08: "To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself." -Winifred Rhoades

03-27-08: "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." -William Saroyan

03-26-08: "Large streams from little mountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow." -David Everett

03-24-08: "Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go for it." -Pat Riley

03-22-08: "Happiness is not something you get, but something you do." -Marcelene Cox

03-21-08: "To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius." -Minna Antrim

03-20-08: "Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving." -Henry Ford

03-19-08: "I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go." -Pearl Bailey

03-18-08: "The simple heart that asks in love, obtains." -John Greenleaf Whittier

03-16-08: "It's all to do with training; you can do a lot if you're properly trained." -Queen Elizabeth II

03-14-08: "All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." -Charles Kingsley

03-10-08: "God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful." -Mother Teresa

03-09-08: "The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." -Helen Rowland

03-07-08: "it's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to lossen your girdle and really let it fly." -Babe Didrikson Zaharias

03-06-08: "Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities." -Elizabeth Bowen

03-05-08: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -Hellen Keller

03-04-08: "I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up." -Anon

03-03-08: "I WILL PRAY FOR YOU
I WILL PRAY WITH YOU
UNTIL WE SEE THIS THROUGH
MAY GOD HOLD YOU, LOVE ENFOLD YOU
AND I WILL PRAY FOR YOU"
-Chorus "I WILL PRAY FOR YOU" by Doug Gazlay

03-01-08: "Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak." -Elizabeth Bowen

02-26-08: "If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans." -Chinese proverb

02-25-08: "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." -Sir Winston Churchill

02-24-08: "It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself." -Betty Friedan

02-23-08: "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." -Mahatma Gandhi

02-22-08: "Greater love hath no man that this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." -John 15:13

02-19-08: "It is better for you to die on your feet than live on your knees." -Delores Ibarruri

02-17-08: "A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain." -Llewelyn Powers

02-14-08: "I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself, I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." -Michel de Montaigne

02-13-08: "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." -John Ruskin

02-12-08: "The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do." -Donald Riggs

02-11-08: "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless." -Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

02-10-08: "A dreamer- you know- it's a mind that looks over the edges of things." -Mary O'Hara

02-09-08: "The only things you regret are the things you don't do." -Michael Curtiz

02-08-08: "Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when it's direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic." -Gerald Jampolsky

02-07-08: "In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure." -Heart Warrior Chosa

02-06-08: "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." -Saint Thomas Aquinas

02-05-08: "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure." -Jean Kerr

02-04-08: "The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration." -Kurt Vonnegut

02-03-08: "A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences." -Jacques Maritain

02-02-08: "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." -George C. Scott

02-01-08: "We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival." -Sir Winston Churchill

01-31-08: "I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays." -Abraham Lincoln

01-30-08: "Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any manner." -Francois da La Rochfoucauld

01-29-08: "Birds sing after the storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?." -Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

01-28-08: "The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend." -Martha Mason

01-27-08: "In the long run, we shape ourselves. The process never ends until the day we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." -Eleanor Roosevelt

01-26-08: "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -Ancient Chinese proverb

01-25-08: "The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions." -Andre' Godin

01-24-08: "The whole meaning of prayer is that we might know God." -Oswald Chambers

01-23-08: "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." -Bertrand Russell

01-22-08: "We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom." -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

01-21-08: "To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is." -Margaret Bourke-White

01-20-08: "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." -Calvin Coolidge

01-19-08: "It's a long road, but I know I'm going to find the end." -Bessie Smith

01-18-08: "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." -Mignon McLaughlin

01-16-08: "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way."
-Daniele Vare

01-15-08: "Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." -Pythagoras

01-14-08: "A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days." -Johan von Goethe

01-13-08: "The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie." -Ann Landers

01-11-08: "To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective." -Liz Smith

01-10-08: "It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop later on." -Dorothy Uhnak

01-09-08: "The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others." -Sharon Anthony Bower

01-08-08: "The future is the past in preparation." -Pierre Dac

01-07-08: "I think hearts are very much like glasses- if they don't break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time." -L. E. Landon

01-06-08: "The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor." -Christian Bovee

01-05-08: "The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact." -Sir Walter Scott

01-04-08: "Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above, but it must rise from that which is within us." -Josiah Royce

01-03-08: "Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself." -Martin Vanbee

01-02-08: "A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him." -Mae West

01-01-08: "What ever you do, you need courage. ....To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

12-31-07: "Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary." -Walt Whitman

12-29-07: "There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." -James Branch Cabell

12-28-07: "If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him." -Chineese Proverb

12-27-07: "Debt is a trap that man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into." -Josh Billings

12-26-07: "Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more; a grateful heart." -George Herbert

12-25-07: "...Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." -Luke 2:10 & 11

12-24-07: "The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings, not his cash." -Anon

12-23-07: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

12-22-07: "That man is blest
Who does his best
And leaves the rest,
Then - do not worry."
-Charles F. Deems

12-19-07: "Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chairs so small." -Jim Rohn

1218-07: "The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work- if you won't." -Zig Ziglar

12-17-07: "Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it." -Denis Waitley

12-16-07: "It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you." -Brian Tracy

12-14-07: "The greatest definition of concentration I've ever heard, 'Wherever you are, be there!'." -Jim Rohn

12-13-07: "Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking things that others have never thought." -Albert Einstein

12-12-07: "You are the only one who can use your ability. It's an awesome responsibility." -Zig Ziglar

12-11-07: "The price of success must be paid in-full, in advance." -Brian Tracy

12-08-07: "I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am very, very curios." -Albert Einstein

12-06-07: "Kids ought to have two bicycles; one to ride and one to rent." -Jim Rohn

12-05-07: "Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor." -Brian Tracy

12-04-07: "You can only do good if you feel good. The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy." -Denis Waitley

12-03-07: "The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now." -Zig Ziglar

12-02-07: "One person caring about another represents life's greatest value." -Jim Rohn

12-01-07: "Although it's been said, many times, many ways- Merry Christmas, to you." -Lyric- "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)"

December 2007

11-30-07: "You can disagree without being disagreeable." -Zig Ziglar

11-29-07: "Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people." -Brian Tracy

11-28-07: "There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives." -Jim Rohn

11-27-07: "It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job." -Denis Waitley

11-26-07: "There is a huge difference between believing for something and expecting something." -Pastor Joel Osteen

11-25-07: "I've got to say NO to the good so I can say YES to the best." -Zig Ziglar

11-24-07: "Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." -Jim Rohn

11-23-07: "Keep on casting your bread upon the water. Soon it's gonna' come back home on every wave; good measure, pressed down, shaken together- running over..." -Lyric from "Bread Upon The Water"

11-21-07: "If you're hoping to harvest a life of great deeds, remember you first have to plant some great seeds." -Denis Waitley

11-20-07: "The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent." -Brian Tracy

11-19-07: "Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." -Zig Ziglar

11-16-07: "There are no excuses, for the only one who loses is the one who never dares to live the dream." -Doug Gazlay- "The Gift" lyric

11-14-07: "The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of your work." -Brian Tracy

11-12-07: "Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night." -Zig Ziglar

11-11-07: "Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time." -Denis Waitley

11-09-07: "Many losing entry has had every attribute except one: the belief that he was going to win." -Grantland Rice

11-08-07: "The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done." -Arnold Palmer

11-07-07: "I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details." -Albert Einstein

In Memory of my sweet dog-
"Sailor"

2003 - 11/06/07

11-06-07: "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." -Thomas Aquinas

11-04-07: "If you don't matter to you, it's hard to matter to others." -Malcolm Forbes

11-03-07: "Cast all your cares on God; the anchor holds." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

11-02-07: "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11-01-07: "I have been drive many times to my knees by the overwhelming convictions that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day." -President Abraham Lincoln

10-31-07: "The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy." -Jim Rohn

10-30-07: "Some people find fault like there is a reward for it." -Zig Ziglar

10-29-07: "Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others." -Brian Tracy

10-28-07: "There is a difference between believing and expecting." -Pastor Joel Osteen

10-26-07: "Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions." -Jim Rohn

10-25-07: "Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job." -Zig Ziglar

10-24-07: "To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be." -Brian Tracy

10-23-07: "Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children." -President Ronald Reagan

10-22-07: "Your Spiritual bloodline in more powerful than your natural bloodline." -Pastor Joel Osteen

10-21-07: "Each human being on earth has equal rights to fulfill his or her own potential." -Denis Waitley

10-20-07: "We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go." -Jim Rohn

10-19-07: "You're livin' in America-
You're livin' in the home of the dream!
You're livin' in America-
Just make it what you want it to be!"
-Donna Summer, Lyrics for chorus- "Livin' In America"

10-18-07: "What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind." -Zig Ziglar

10-17-07: "You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermitt." -Jim Rohn

10-16-07: "Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable." -Brian Tracy

10-15-07: "The Good Lord can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in His hands." -Mahalia Jackson

10-14-07: "Generosity is a matter of the heart, not the pocketbook."
-Fred P. Corson

10-13-07: "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -Helen Keller

10-12-07: "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
-Anne Bradstreet

10-10-07: "I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making him me hate him." -Booker T. Washington

10-09-07: "Life is a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile at it, it returns the greeting." -William Makepeace Thackeray

10-06-07: "You cannot tailor make the situations that arise in life. But you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise." -Zig Zigler

10-05-07: "The best words for dissolving a disagreement are: "I could be wrong. I often am". It's true." -Brian Tracy

10-04-07: "The philosophy of the rich vs. the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what's left, the poor spend their money and invest what's left." -Jim Rohn

10-03-07: "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -Harriet Beecher Stowe

10-02-07: "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." -Thomas a' Kempis

10-01-07: "Every happening, great or small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." -Malcom Muggeridge

09-30-07: "Treat objections as requests for further information." -Brian Tracy

09-29-07: "Others know when you have their best interests at heart." -Dennis Waitley

09-28-07: "Leaders think and talk about the solutions.
Followers think and talk about the problem." -Brian Tracy

09-27-07: "Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours." -Zig Ziglar

09-26-07: "Kids are curious. Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them." -Jim Rohn

09-25-07: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
-The Golden Rule

09-24-07: "Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." -Mary C. Crowley

09-22-07: "Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
-Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr.

09-20-07: "If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation." -Denis Waitley

09-19-07: "Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." -Jim Rohn

09-18-07: "The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning."
-Brian Tracy

09-17-07: "The results of listening to motivational programs does not last forever. Neither does a bath! But I highly recommend taking one!"
-Zig Ziglar

09-16-07: "Individuals with good self-esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness."
-Denis Waitley

09-15-07: "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." -Mark Twain

09-14-07: "The goal of effective communication should be for the listener to say 'Me, too!' versus 'So What?'." -Jim Rohn

09-12-07: "Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals." -Brian Tracy

09-10-07: "If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience." -Eddie Rickenbacker

09-09-07: "I wonder if the Dinosaurs ever worried excessively about their retirement?" -Doug Gazlay

09-08-07: "Change your thoughts and change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale

09-07-07: "There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great." -G. K. Chesterton

09-06-07: "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't." -Henry Ward Beecher

09-05-07: "Integrity is the most valued and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word." -Brian Tracy

09-04-07: "The world needs role models, instead of critics." -Denis Waitley

09-03-07: "The price of success is much lower than the price of failure." -Zig Ziglar

09-02-07: "If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him, lest there be two bad men." -Augustine

09-01-07: "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." -Helen Keller

08-31-07: "Think of yourself as a resource to your clients; an advisor, counselor, mentor and friend." -Brian Tracy

08-30-07: "Imagination is more important than Knowledge." -Albert Einstein

8-29-07: "If you believe in yourself and know what you want, you're gonna' make it happen; make it happen. And if you get down on your knees at night and pray to the Lord, He's gonna' make it happen; Make It Happen." -Mariah Carey

08-28-07: "We all need a check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes." -Zig Zigler

08-27-07: "If you attack another person's beliefs, then you are creating an enemy." -Denis Waitley

08-26-07: "People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value." -Brian Tracy

08-25-07: "History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark." -Lord John Whorfin

08-24-07: "He who cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."

08-22-07: "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want." -Zig Zigler

08-21-07: "If it takes 21 days to bring about a lasting change, refuse to let the feelings of any problem last longer than a day or two. That way it won't take permanent hold in your life. Focus on the "big picture" and create for yourself a life filled with love and happiness as your "main habits"." -Doug Gazlay

08-20-07: "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." -Carol Burnett

08-18-07: "That kind of life is most happy which affords us the most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem." -Samuel Johnson

08-16-07: "We make a living at by what we get, we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill

08-15-07: "When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." -Alexander Graham Bell

08-14-07: "We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." -Neil A. Maxwell

08-13-07: "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back." -John Bunyan

08-12-07: "In the middle of difficulties lies opportunity." -Albert Einstein

08-11-07: "Be thankful for the things that you can do, 'cause other people may not do that much!" -Doug Gazlay

08-10-07: "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden

08-09-07: "Hold on my child. Joy comes in the morning." -Bill Gaither Trio song lyric

08-08-07: "Don't go where the path may lead. Instead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

08-07-07: "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz

08-05-07: "There are no hopeless circumstances. There are only people who have become hopeless about them." -Clare Boothe Luce

08-04-07: "To keep a lamp burning, we need to keep putting oil in it." -Mother Teresa

08-03-07: "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain

08-02-07: "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." -Arthur Ashe

08-01-07: "You know what they call failing and never giving up?-
Success!" -Dave Ramsey

07-31-07: "What we are is God's gift to us.
What we become is our gift to God." -Eleanor Powell

07-30-07: "The successful person is one who can lay down a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." -David Brinkley

07-29-07: "You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Ziggy {Tom Wislon}

07-28-07: "When you forgive, you in no way change the past- but you sure do change the future." -Bernard Meltzer

07-27-07: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Winston Churchill

07-26-07: "Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

07-25-07: "Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them."
- Henry Jacobson

07-24-07: "To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
- President, Abraham Lincoln

07-23-07: "I have reason to believe in miracles,
To expect them like the dawn expects the sun.
And I will not accept defeat
for my trust in Him is complete
and the victory has already been won!"
- Cheryl Prewitt Blackwood (Miss USA 1980)

07-22-07: "It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering." - Patrick Gifford

07-21-07: "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." - Dorothy Bernard

07-20-07: "Nothing can be done without hope and optimism." - Helen Keller

07-19-07: "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why....I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" - President, John F. Kennedy

07-18-07: "Our job is not to figure out the how. The how will show up out of a commitment and belief in the what...." - Jack Canfield

07-17-07: "Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way...you're right!" - Henry Ford