There is so much to know about conversation that anyone, even I, could ever realize. You can go though watching talk shows; radio programs; clubs dedicated to public speaking; ordinary conversations; certain rules still apply when it comes to interaction through words. It may sound tedious, I know, but even though it's your mouth that's doing the work, your brain works twice as hard to churn out a lot of things you know. So what better way to start learning to be an effective communication is to know the very person closest to you: yourself.
1. What you know.
Education is all about learning the basics, but to be an effective speaker is to practice what you've learned. My stint as guest at every Toastmasters' meeting I go to taught me that we all have our limitations, but that doesn't mean we can't learn to keep up and share what we know.
2. Listening.
It's just as important as asking questions. Sometimes listening to the sound of our own voice can teach us to be a little bit confident with ourselves and to say the things we believe in with conviction.
3. Humility
We all make mistakes, and sometimes we tend to slur our words, stutter, and probably mispronounce certain words even though we know what it means, but rarely use it only to impress listeners. So in a group, don't be afraid to ask if you're saying the right word properly and if they're unsure about it then make a joke out of it. I promise you it'll make everyone laugh and you can get away with it as well.
4. Eye Contact
There's a lot to say when it comes to directing your attention to your audience with an eye-catching gaze. It's important that you keep your focus when talking to a large group in a meeting or a gathering, even though he or she may be gorgeous.
5. Kidding around
A little bit of humor can do wonders to lift the tension, or worse boredom when making your speech. That way, you'll get the attention of the majority of the crowd and they'll feel that you're just as approachable, and as human to those who listen.
6. Be like the rest of them
Interaction is all about mingling with other people. You'll get a lot of ideas, as well as knowing what people make them as they are.
7. Me, Myself, and I
Admit it, there are times you sing to yourself in the shower. I know I do! Listening to the sound of your own voice while you practice your speech in front of a mirror can help correct the stress areas of your pitch. And while you're at it you can spruce up as well.
8. With a smile
A smile says it all much like eye contact. There's no point on grimacing or frowning in a meeting or a gathering, unless it's a wake. You can better express what you're saying when you smile.
9. A Role Model
There must be at least one or two people in your life you have listened to when they're at a public gathering or maybe at church. Sure they read their lines, but taking a mental note of how they emphasize what they say can help you once you take center stage.
10. Preparation
Make the best out of preparation rather than just scribbling notes and often in a hurried panic. Some people like to write things down on index cards, while other resort to being a little more silly as they look at their notes written on the palm of their hand (not for clammy hands, please). Just be comfortable with what you know since you enjoy your work.
And that about wraps it up. These suggestions are rather amateurish in edgewise, but I've learned to empower myself when it comes to public or private speaking and it never hurts to be with people to listen how they make conversations and meetings far more enjoyable as well as educational.
At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to manage those challenges and move forward.
Practicing positive thinking allows people with ADD to focus on our strengths and accomplishments, which increases happiness and motivation. This, in turn, allows us to spend more time making progress, and less time feeling down and stuck. The following tips provide practical suggestions that you can use to help you shift into more positive thinking patterns:
1. Take Good Care of Yourself
It's much easier to be positive when you are eating well, exercising, and getting enough rest.
2. Remind Yourself of the Things You Are Grateful For
Stresses and challenges don't seem quite as bad when you are constantly reminding yourself of the things that are right in life. Taking just 60 seconds a day to stop and appreciate the good things will make a huge difference.
3. Look for the Proof Instead of Making Assumptions
A fear of not being liked or accepted sometimes leads us to assume that we know what others are thinking, but our fears are usually not reality. If you have a fear that a friend or family member's bad mood is due to something you did, or that your co-workers are secretly gossiping about you when you turn your back, speak up and ask them. Don't waste time worrying that you did something wrong unless you have proof that there is something to worry about.
4. Refrain from Using Absolutes
Have you ever told a partner "You're ALWAYS late!" or complained to a friend "You NEVER call me!"? Thinking and speaking in absolutes like 'always' and 'never' makes the situation seem worse than it is, and programs your brain into believing that certain people are incapable of delivering.
5. Detach From Negative Thoughts
Your thoughts can't hold any power over you if you don't judge them. If you notice yourself having a negative thought, detach from it, witness it, and don't follow it.
6. Squash the "ANTs"
In his book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life," Dr. Daniel Amen talks about "ANTs" - Automatic Negative Thoughts. These are the bad thoughts that are usually reactionary, like "Those people are laughing, they must be talking about me," or "The boss wants to see me? It must be bad!" When you notice these thoughts, realize that they are nothing more than ANTs and squash them!
7. Practice Lovin', Touchin' & Squeezin' (Your Friends and Family)
You don't have to be an expert to know the benefits of a good hug. Positive physical contact with friends, loved ones, and even pets, is an instant pick-me-up. One research study on this subject had a waitress touch some of her customers on the arm as she handed them their checks. She received higher tips from these customers than from the ones she didn't touch!
8. Increase Your Social Activity
By increasing social activity, you decrease loneliness. Surround yourself with healthy, happy people, and their positive energy will affect you in a positive way!
9. Volunteer for an Organization, or Help another Person
Everyone feels good after helping. You can volunteer your time, your money, or your resources. The more positive energy you put out into the world, the more you will receive in return.
10. Use Pattern Interrupts to Combat Rumination
If you find yourself ruminating, a great way to stop it is to interrupt the pattern and force yourself to do something completely different. Rumination is like hyper-focus on something negative. It's never productive, because it's not rational or solution-oriented, it's just excessive worry. Try changing your physical environment - go for a walk or sit outside. You could also call a friend, pick up a book, or turn on some music.
When it comes to the corporate world, protocol is pretty much the religion. To know the things needed to do are the basics of productivity, but interaction and having a steady mind makes up the entire thing to true productivity. There are those who seem to work well even under pressure, but they're uncommon ones and we are human and imperfect. To get these little things like stress under our skins won't solve our problems. Sometimes it takes a bit of courage to admit that we're turning to be workaholics than tell ourselves that we're not doing our best.
1. What do I really want?
The question of the ages. So many things you want to do with your life and so little time to even go about during the day.
Find something that you are good at can help realize that small step towards improvement. Diligence is the key to know that it is worth it.
2. Should I really change?
Today's generation has taken another level of redefining 'self', or at least that's what the kids are saying. Having an army of teenage nieces and nephews has taught me that there are far worse things that they could have had than acne or maybe even promiscuity. So how does that fit into your lifestyle?
If history has taught us one thing, it's the life that we have gone through. Try to see if partying Seventies style wouldn't appeal to the younger generation, but dancing is part of partying. Watch them applaud after showing them how to really dance than break their bones in break-dancing.
3. What's the bright side in all of this?
With so much is happening around us there seem to be no room for even considering that light at the end of the tunnel. We can still see it as something positive without undergoing so much scrutiny. And if it's a train at the end of the tunnel, take it for a ride and see what makes the world go round!
4. Am I comfortable with what I'm doing?
There's always the easy way and the right way when it comes to deciding what goes with which shoes, or purse, shirt and whatnot. It doesn't take a genius to see yourself as someone unique, or else we'll all be equally the same in everything we do. Variety brings in very interesting and exciting questions to be experimented.
5. Have I done enough for myself?
Have you, or is there something more you want to do? Discontentment in every aspect can be dangerous in large doses, but in small amounts you'll be able to see and do stuff you could never imagine doing.
6. Am I happy at where I am today?
It's an unfair question so let it be an answer! You love being a good and loving mom or dad to your kids, then take it up a notch! Your kids will love you forever. The same goes with everyday life!
7. Am I appealing to the opposite sex?
So maybe I don't have an answer to that, but that doesn't mean I can't try it, though. Whether you shape-up, change the way you wear your clothes or hair, or even your attitude towards people, you should always remember it will always be for your own benefit.
8. How much could I have?
I suppose in this case there is no such things on having things too much or too little, but it's more on how badly you really need it. I'd like to have lots of money, no denying that, but the question is that how much are you willing to work for it?
9. What motivates me?
What motivates you? It's an answer you have to find out for yourself. There are so many things that can make everyone happy, but to choose one of the may be the hardest part. It's not like you can't have one serving of your favorite food in a buffet and that's it. Just try it piece by piece.
10. What Really Makes You Tick?
So? What really makes you tick? You can be just about anything you always wanted to be, but to realize that attaining something that may seem very difficult is already giving up before you even start that journey. Always remember, that self-improvement is not just about the physical or philosophical change you have to undergo, but it's something that you really want.
Humor is indeed the best medicine there is whenever you are. I mean anyone can pay good money to listen to a comedian just to make you wet your pants after laughing so hard. Despite of what's been happening, and to those who has gone though the ordeal, it's better to just laugh while facing the troubles with a clear mind than anger with a clouded vision. One of my favorite celebrities of all time may have to be Woody Allen. Now this is one guy who gives you the in-your-face bluntness that he pulls out with gusto, even without even trying. You can talk just about anything with a man, and he's bound to mock the subject and you'll end up laughing rather than being upset about it.
Woody Allen has this to say:
1. "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." It sounds good to me, I mean the practicality of all things does involve money but it doesn't have to take an arm and a leg to get it.
2. "I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government." 'Nuff said.
3. "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" This happens to be one of the classic ones. I mean the issue about life's little problems isn't all that bad, until 'he' shows up.
Sure, relationships can get complicated, or does have its complications that probably any author about relationships is bound to discover it soon. We follow what our heart desires, unless you're talking about the heart as in the heart that pump blood throughout your body.
4. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." And if you want more, just keep on asking!
5. "A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'." It sounds, 'practical', I think.
And when it comes to everyday life, he really knows how to make the best out of every possible scenario, and it doesn't involve a lawsuit if he strikes a nerve.
6. "Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats." I never had a boat in my bathtub before. Just staring at it while soaking in hot water makes me seasick already.
7. "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." If it rains, it pours.
8. "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." It could get worse when you're guzzling on beer… or mouthwash, and it happened to me once!
9. "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." At least he doesn't smite us with lightning, and I'm thankful for that.
And despite of what may happen to all of us in the next ten, twenty, or even thirty years, I guess we all have to see things in a different kind of light and not just perspective. I can't seem to imagine life without any piece of wisdom that could guide us. Whether we're religious or not, it takes more courage to accept your fears and learn how to deal with them is all that matters when it comes to even just getting along.
And to sum things up, here is the last nugget of wisdom to go by… however, whenever, and wherever we may be.
10. "The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
1) The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
2) To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. - Anthony Robbins
3) Communication works for those who work at it. - John Powell
4) The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. - Anthony Robbins
5) He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. - Lao Tzu
6) Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. - Walt Disney
7) Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them. - Bruce Barton
8) If you have nothing to say, say nothing. - Mark Twain
9) One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. - Mark Twain
10) It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain
11) The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
12) I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. - Bill Gates
13) The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. - Stephen King
14) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway
15) Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. - Brian Tracy
16) We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged. - Bill Clinton
17) Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. - Jim Rohn
18) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
19) To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. - John Marshall
20) Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato
1) Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart,…you’ll know when you find it. - Steve Jobs
2) A great leader's courage to fulfil his vision comes from passion, not position. - John Maxwell
3) The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. - Earl Nightingale
4) If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin
5) It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up. - Steve Jobs
6) All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. - Aristotle
7) There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela
8) Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
9) Passion is the genesis of genius. - Tony Robbins
10) Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. - Oprah Winfrey
11) Without passion you don't have energy, without energy you have nothing. - Donald Trump
12) Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot
13) When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn. - John Wesley
14) Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you. - Bill Cosby
15) There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. - Tony Robbins
16) Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
17) One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. - Jack Canfield
18) I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
19) I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys. - Tiger Woods
20) Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. - Jon Bon Jovi
1) Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs
2) Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein
3) Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw
4) Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. - Tina Turner
5) The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde
6) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
7) Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
8) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
9) Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
10) The only thing all successful people have in common is that they’re successful, so don’t waste your time copying “the successful strategies” of others. - Seth Godin
11) Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work. - James Ogilvy
12) Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. - Guy Kawasaki
13) Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. - Pablo Picasso
14) Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. - Steve Jobs
15) The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. - Pablo Picasso
16) Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. - Earl Nightingale
17) The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau
18) You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think. - Sean Connery
19) To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso
20) Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. - Albert Einstein
1) Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
2) You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
3) How soon “not now” become “never”. - Martin Luther King Jr.
4) Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
5) Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
6) Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill
7) In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
8) If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top. -Zig Ziglar
9) In delay there lies no plenty. - William Shakespeare
10) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
11) Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln
12) Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. - Robert Schuller
13) Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie
14) You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King Jr.
15) One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the
roses blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
16) The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. - Winston Churchill
17) The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. - Abraham Lincoln
18) The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney
19) Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin
20) Do or do not do. There is no try. - Master Yoda
1) Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill
2) People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
3) There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. - Napoleon Hill
4) Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
5) When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
6) Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
7) Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
8) Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
9) A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
10) Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey
11) For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
12) Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. - Earl Nightingale
13) You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes. - Jim Rohn
14) A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi
15) There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. - W. Clement
Stone
16) When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. - Deepak Chopra
17) Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar
18) When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein
19) It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. - Robert H. Schuller
20) When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. - Zig Ziglar
1) Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle
2) Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. - Dale Carnegie
3) Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
4) Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. - Brian Tracy
5) The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it. - Andrew Dunbar
6) The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. - Timothy Dwight
7) Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
8) There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford
9) Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. - Benjamin Franklin
10) That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small. - Dr. Samuel Johnson
11) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Adams Keller
12) 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 as been opened for us. - Helen Adams Keller
13) Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. - Rose Lane
14) Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
15) Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. - George Orwell
16) Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
17) Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin
18) Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
19) A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? - Albert Einstein
20) Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too. - Harrison Ford
1) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen
2) Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. - Charles Spurgeon
3) A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard
4) A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. - Robert Hall
5) A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle
6) A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. - Pam Brown
7) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller
8) A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
9) A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia
10) A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H.
Glasow
11) Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
12) Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. - Shirley MacLaine
13) Friendship and money: oil and water. - Mario Puzo
14) Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
15) Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. - Charles Alexander Eastman
16) Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius
17) Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis
18) Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali
19) Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
20) True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde
1) A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen
2) A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
3) All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
4) All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry Ellis
5) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov
6) Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
7) Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha
8) Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
9) Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. - Henry David Thoreau
10) Every man dies. Not every man really lives. - William Wallace
11) Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre
12) Everything in life is luck. - Donald Trump
13) Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. - Karen Horney
14) He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche
15) Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach
16) I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E. B. White
17) I do not regret one moment of my life. - Lillie Langtry
18) I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
19) I love life because what more is there. - Anthony Hopkins
20) I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs
1) The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammed Ali.
2) The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein
3) I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. - Lily Tomlin
4) Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Mann Jong
5) People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
6) I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there. - Bob Hope
7) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day - Robert Frost
8) Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. - Dalai Lama
9) I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde
10) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost
11) If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson
12) Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Woollcott
13) The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur Clarke
14) Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. - Mark Twain
15) You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
16) Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Tom Lehrer
17) Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie
18) The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. - Oscar Wilde
19) Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. - Jim Carrey
20) I was called fat the other day and I said, "Yeah, well you are ugly and I can diet.” - Captain Insano
1) The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. Sometimes love blinds us, other times it let’s us see. - George Bernard Shaw
2) The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
3) True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
4) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde
5) Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. - Ralph Connor
6) When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7) Hate the sin and love the sinner. - Mahatma Ghandi
8) If you have it, Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. - James M. Barrie
9) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke
10) To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11) Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein
12) You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
13) There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau
14) Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. - Katharine Hepburn
15) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. - Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4)
16) A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle
17) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
18) I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Mother Teresa
19) Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. - H. L. Mencken
20) You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
1) A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. - Stephen Covey
2) And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. - Andrew Carnegie
3) Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. - Edgar R. Fiedler
4) Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. - Henry Ford
5) Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. - Peter Drucker
6) My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde
7) For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. - Zig Ziglar
8) Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. - Jack Welch
9) Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. - Zig Ziglar
10) It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. - Mahatma Gandhi
11) I understand small business growth. I was one. - George W. Bush
12) Carpe per diem - seize the check - Robin Williams
13) Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford
14) Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill
15) Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker
16) If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B. C. Forbes
17) To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. - John H. Patterson
18) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. - Earl Nightingale
19) In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. - Warren Buffett
20) Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. - Steve Jobs
1) Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
2) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. - Abraham Lincoln
3) Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie
4) Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
5) Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J. Paul Getty
6) I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
7) The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. - Thomas A. Edison
8) Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie
9) Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
10) To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare
11) They can because they think they can. - Virgil
12) Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier
13) Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. - Mark Victor Hansen quotes
14) Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. - Malcolm S. Forbes
15) To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain
16) To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
17) If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
18) Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. - Zig Ziglar
19) Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Jim Rohn
20) Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
1) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
2) Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
3) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. - Henry Ford
4) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
5) We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. - Dolly Parton
6)We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi
7) Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
8) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
9) Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - John Maxwell
10) You change your life by changing your heart. - Max Lucado
11) There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. - Napoleon Hill
12) Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong
13) We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. - Jim Rohn
14) If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas A. Edison
15) Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt
16) Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Jim Rohn
17)Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. - Napoleon Hill
18) I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved! - Robert H Schuller
19) We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. - Ronald Reagan
20) What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H. Schuller
