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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley
Hope
Day
Courage
Every Day
Every
Out
Bed
Begins
Getting
Act
What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.
Melody Beattie
Life
You
Blame
Fault
Think
Our
Focused
Ourselves
Gentle
Around
Being
Really
Should
There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
Mike White
Victory
Go
Expectations
Your
Letting
Letting Go
Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.
Monica Johnson
Christmas
World
Gift
Christ
Giving
Big
Greatest Gift
About
Stems
Well
Around
Greatest
Big Thing
Really
Should
Ever
Thing
Jesus
Received
Jesus Christ
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
Dreams
Alone
Thoughts
Man
Reality
Power
Dream
Physical
True
Come
Make
His
Transform
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
You
Speak
Water
Edge
Must
Write
Another
Sand
Ill
Near
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
Man
World
Habit
He
Knows
Making
Going
Where
Room
Show
Actions
Whose
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill
Food
Care
Extracted
Our
Minds
Out
See
Mental
Selecting
Environment
Feeding
Importance
Because
Greatest
Begin
Goes
Which
Ground
Therefore
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Son
Father
Drive
Despair
Bear
Him
Equanimity
His
Loss
May
Inheritance
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Business
Enemy
Enterprise
Ripe
More
Concealed
Until
Likely
Execution
Than
Succeed
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
Nikos Kazantzakis
God
Soul
Courage
Joy
Enemy
Devil
Others
Everything
Destroy
Destroyed
See
All-Powerful
Rush
Some
Seem
Wrong
Invisible
Call
Him
Test
Goes
Endurance
Us
Your
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life
Faith
Worth
Enthusiasm
Living
Worth Living
Something
Makes
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wish
Nothing
Remarkable
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Om Malik
Silence
Fog
Muted
Like
Sounds
Grey
Shroud
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden
Man
Strong
Own
Victim
Energy
Favorable
Out
He
Environment
Force
His
Conditions
Turn
Successful
Creates
Successful Man
Inherent
Compel
Things
Desires
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
Alone
You
World
Strong
Will
Be Strong
Somebody
Power
Ambition
Nothing
Others
Else
Destroys
Habit
Never
Lean
Leaning
Bury
Stand
Your
Original
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
Patrick Lencioni
Success
Persistence
Discipline
Matter
Sense
Embracing
Rather
Uncommon
Sophisticated
Mastering
Common
Subtle
Common Sense
Success Is
Theory
Levels
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Patrick Lencioni
Honesty
Plus
Clients
Interested
Really
Competence
The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
Patrick Lencioni
Best
Complaining
Pressure
Leader
Accountability
Intervene
Peer
Peer Pressure
Kind
Having
More
Anonymously
Doing
Effective
Efficient
Than
Going
Stop
Them
Team
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Philip K. Dick
Reality
Overwhelming
Living
Changed
Deja
Deja Vu
Some
Variable
Reliving
Only
Alteration
Occurs
Were
Impression
Clue
Present
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury
Education
Myself
You
Library
Book
People
Money
Better
College
Three
Every
Complete
Spent
Thousand
Week
Had
Written
Days
Read
Educate
Educating
Years
End
Than
Get
Stories
Public
Themselves
Should
Public Library
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
Day
Morning
Me
Together
Rest
Every
Spent
Out
Step
Putting
Pieces
Bed
Jump
After
Explosion
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
Good
Man
Selfish
Own
Neglecting
Neighbor
Pursuing
His
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick Warren
God
You
Will
Faithful
Never
Retire
Your
Servants
Serving
Career
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Rick Warren
Life
God
Faith
You
Will
Made
Sense
Never
Until
Make
Understand
Were
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.
Rick Warren
God
Time
Day
Struggle
Grief
Word
Reading
Before
Spent
Significant
Days
Feet
Hours
Sorrow
Still
Praying
Shock
Intentionally
Being
Literally
Scripture
Sat
Each
Each Day
Deepest
Amount
Meditating
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