Little Pearls of Wisdom

Here are some words of wisdom that have helped me immensely. I hope you benefit from them as much as I have.

Attitude is everything!

It is not what happens to you. It is what you do about it!

Persistence fails when all else fails!

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Opportunity always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your feet on first.

If it's to be, it's up to me!

Life is tough, but if you're tough on yourself, then life will be infinitely easier on you.
- Zig Ziglar

When the going gets tough, the tough get going!

There are three kinds of people:
- The kind that makes things happen
- The kind that watch things happen
- And the kind that says, "What happened?""

Attitude is the little thing that makes the big difference.

It's the attitude, not the aptitude, that gets you the altitude.

The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength or lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

The happiness in your life is in direct proportion to the character of your thoughts.

If you do the things you aught to do when you aught to do them, then the day will
come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
- Zig Ziglar

In the race to be better or best, do not miss the joy of being.

The pleasure you get from life is equal to the attitude you put into it.

Life does not require us to be the biggest or the best, it asks only that we try.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails!

In the end, the only people who fail are those who failed to try!

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

You gotta be before you can do and you gotta do before you can have.
- Zig Ziglar

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to loose sight of the shore.

Some people dream of lofty accomplishments while others stay awake and do them!

Pride is a personal commitment; it is an attitude that separates excellence from mediocrity.

No Guts, No Glory!!

Our circumstances don't make us what we are, they reveal who we are.
- David Jeremiah

Whatever it takes!!

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Expect to win!!

The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and miss it but that we aim too low and achieve it!

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live
the life which he imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness isn't getting what you want. It's wanting what you get.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

There's no better way to waste time in life than to dwell on the past.
- Bonnie Dunbar, astronaut

A wise old owl sat in an oak
The more he saw, the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard
Why can't we be like this bird!
- Polly Kraus

Patience is a muscle that I strengthen every day.
- Alison Crawford