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STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
DEDICATION
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #1 “My business is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made.” ROBERT BROWNING. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #2 “Love not what you are but what you may become.” MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. SPANISH AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #3 “Moments of guilt, moments of contrition, moments when we are lacking in self-esteem, moments when we are bearing the trial of being displeasing to ourselves, are essential to our growth.” M. SCOTT PECK. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #4 “Examine myself as I may, I can no longer find the slightest trace of the anxious, agitated individual of those years, so dis-contented with herself, so out of patience with others.” AMANDINE AURORE LUCIE DUPIN. FRENCH NOVELIST, ALSO KNOWN AS GEORGE SAND. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #5 “Large streams from little fountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow.” DAVID EVERETT. ENGLISH POET AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #6 “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #7 “Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root.” G.K. CHESTERTON. ENGLISH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #8 “ Habit is a great deadener.” SAMUEL BECKETT. IRISH NOVELIST AND DRAMATIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #9 “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” SAMUEL JOHNSON. ENGLISH CRITIC AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #10 “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time.” MARK TWAIN. AMERICAN WRITER AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #11 “One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness – simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream.” AMANDINE AURORE LUCIE DUPIN. FRENCH NOVELIST, ALSO KNOWN AS GEORGE SAND. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #12 “It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.” BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #13 “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” VICTOR HUGO. FRENCH POET AND AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #14 “Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” NETHANIEL HAWTHORNE. AMERICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #15 “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” JOHN GUNTER. ENGLISH DESIGNER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #16 “Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalised.” G.K. CHESTERON. ENGLISH AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #17 “A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: It would be hell on earth.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #18 “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #19 “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” BENJAMIN DISRAELI. ENGLISH STATESMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #20 “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” GEORGE SANTAYANA. SPANISH AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #21 “Happiness doesn’t depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.” ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN. RUSSIAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #22 “When a small child…I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong. Happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. “ ANNA PAVLOVA. RUSSIAN BALLET DANCER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #23 “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally: make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. AMERICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #24 “The happiest people seem to be those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.” WILLIAM INGE. ENGLISH PRELATE AND AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #25 “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” BERTRAND RUSSELL. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER AND MATHEMATICIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #26 “There is no duty we so much underestimate as the duty of being happy. Being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. SCOTTISH NOVELIST, POET AND ESSAYIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #27 “The best way to future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.” CHARLES W. ELIOT. ENGLISH EDUCATOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #28 “Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centres all his requirements on himself.” MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. ROMAN ORATOR, STATESMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #29 “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a hearfelt compliment -countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings.” SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #30 “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy” ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN. RUSSIAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #31 “Man’s life is happy mainly because he is always expecting that it will soon be so.” EDGAR ALLEN POE. AMERICAN POET AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #32 “There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.” AMANDINE AURORE LUCIE DUPIN. FRENCH NOVELIST, ALSO KNOWN AS GEORGE SAND. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #33 “It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.” MILES FRANKLIN. AUSTRALIAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #34 “Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyses life; love harmonises it. hatred darkens life; love illumines it.” MARTIN LUTHER KING. AMERICAN BLACK CIVIL-RIGHTS LEADER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #35 “Hatred rarely does any harm to its object. It is the hater who suffers.” LORD BEAVERBROOK. CANADIAN BORN NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #36 “Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.” JOSEPH ADDISON. ENGLISH ESSAYIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #37 “To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.” SENECA. ROMAN PHILOSOPHER AND STATEMAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #38 “To get the body in tone, get the mind in tune.” ZACHARY T. BERCOVITZ. AMERICAN DOCTOR AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #39 “Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money can not buy.” ISAAK WALTON. ENGLISH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #40 “The heart of the wise, like a mirror, should reflect all objects, without being sullied by any.” CONFUCIUS. CHINESE PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #41 “1 love thee for a heart that’s kind. Not for the knowledge in thy mind.” W. H. DAVIES. WELSH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #42 “Heaven means to be at one with God.” CONFUCIUS. CHINESE PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #43 “1f a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking him if there’s anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.” E.W. HOWE. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #44 “No-one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.” CHARLES DICKENS. ENGLISH AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #45 “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” GEORGE MOORE. IRISH WRITER AND ART CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #46 “No place is more delightful than one’s own fireside.” MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. ROMAN ORATOR, STATESMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #47 “But what on earth is half so dear — so longed for — as the hearth of home.” EMILY BRONTE. POET AND NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #48 “A comfortable home is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.” SYDNEY SMITH. ENGLISH ESSAYIST, CLERGYMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #49 “My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.” PEARL BAILEY. AMERICAN SINGER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #50 “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” SIGMUND FREUD. AUSTRIAN FOUNDER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #51 “There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.” CLARE BOOTH LUCE. AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #52 “Do not fear to hope … each time we smell the autumn’s dying scent, we know that primrose time will come again.” SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #53 “We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.” JOHN F. KENNEDY. PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #54 “Great hopes make great men.” THOMAS FULLER. ENGLISH DIVINE AND HISTORIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #55 “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” MARTIN LUTHER KING. AMERICAN BLACK CIVIL-RIGHTS LEADER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #56 “Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.” SAMUEL JOHNSON. ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHER, CRITIC AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #57 “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” THORNTON WILDER. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #58 “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” MARTIN LUTHER. GERMAN RELIGIOUS REFORMER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #59 “Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing.” MARK TWAIN. AMERICAN WRITER AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #60 “Total absence of humour renders life impossible.” COLETTE. FRENCH NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #61 “Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” WILL ROGERS. AMERICAN ACTOR AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #62 “Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” VICTOR HUGO. FRENCH POET AND AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #63 “A crank is a man with a new idea — until it catches on.” MARK TWAIN. AMERICAN WRITER AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #64 “What was once thought can never be unthought.” FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT. SWISS WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #65 “If you don’t follow through on your creative ideas, someone else will pick them up and use them. When you get an idea of this sort, you should jump in with both feet, not just stick your toe in the water … be daring, be fearless and don’t be afraid that somebody is going to criticize you or laugh at you. If your ego is not involved no-one can hurt you.” GURU RHH. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #66 “A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.” VICTOR HUGO. FRENCH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #67 “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” BENJAMIN DISRAELI. ENGLISH STATEMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #68 “What is now proved was once only imagined.” WILLIAM BLAKE. ENGLISH POET, ARTIST AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #69 “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.” OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #70 “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ALBERT EINSTEIN. GERMAN BORN PHYSICIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #71 “This world is but canvas to our imaginations.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #72 “Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” LAUREN BACALL. AMERICAN ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #73 “Imagination, Industry and Intelligence — ‘the three I’s’ — are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.” ELLEN TERRY. ENGLISH ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #74 “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” C.K. CHESTERTON. ENGLISH CRITIC, NOVELIST AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #75 “No-one should abandon duties because he see defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.” BHAGAVAD GITA. HINDU RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURE. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #76 “Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says has an enhanced value.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #77 “Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself… true happiness is born of self-reliance.” QUOTE FROM THE LAWS OF MANU, HINDU TEACHINGS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #78 “It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing — that’s the lord’s test.” MAHALIA JACKSON. AMERICAN SPIRITUALS SINGER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #79 “The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.” HENRIK IBSEN. NORWEGIAN DRAMATIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #80 “Follow your own bent, no matter what people say.” KARL MARX. FAMOUS GERMAN PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #81 “Conformity is one of the most fundamental dishonesties of all. When we reject our specialness, water down our God-given individuality and uniqueness, we begin to lose our freedom. The conformist is in no way a free man. He has to follow the herd.” NORMAN VINCENT PEALE. AMERICAN WRITER AND MINISTER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #82 “Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and it is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be or not.” NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. AMERICAN NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #83 “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” SAMUEL JOHNSON. BRITISH CRITIC AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #84 “My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.” LORD ALFRED TENNYSON. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #85 “This above all — to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #86 “Intelligence highly awakened is intuition, which is the only true guide in life.” JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI. INDIAN THEOSOPHIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #87 “We belittle an intuition, calling it only a hunch, and therefore not be taken too seriously. I encourage you to take your hunches and intuitions very seriously. They contain some of your highest, most profound insights and wisdom.” LUCIA CAPACCHIONE. AMERICAN ART THERAPIST AND PIONEER IN INNER HEALING. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #88 “The life without festivals is a long road without an inn.” DEMOCRITUS. GREEK PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #89 “Joy is not in things, it is in us.” RICHARD WAGNER. GERMAN COMPOSER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #90 “Joy, lady, is the spirit and the power, which wedding nature gives to us in dower, a new earth and new heaven, undreamt of by the sensual and the proud – joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud – we in ourselves rejoice.” SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #91 “Joy is one of nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.” CATHERINE PONDER. AMERICAN MOTIVATIONAL WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #92 “Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.” ROSALIND RUSSELL. AMERICAN ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #93 ““The more joy we have, the more nearly perfect we are.” BENEDICT SPINOZA. DUTCH PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #94 “Justice is truth in action.” BENJAMIN DISRAELI. ENGLISH STATESMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #95 “Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.” CONFUCIUS. CHINESE PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #96 “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” AESOP. GREEK FABLE-MAKER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #97 “My religion is very simple — my religion is kindness.” DALAI LAMA. TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #98 “I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.” WILLIAM PENN. ENGLISH QUAKER AND FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA, USA. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #99 “Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.” JULIA FLETCHER CARNEY. AMERICAN TEACHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #100 “Wise words often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.” ARTHUR HELPS. ENGLISH HISTORIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #101 “Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.” PLATO. GREEK PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #102 “The heart benevolent and kind, the most resembles God.” ROBERT BURNS. SCOTTISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #103 “The best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #104 “Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” SAMUEL JOHNSON. ENGLISH CRITIC AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #105 “I thank thee, Lord for knowing me better than I know myself, and for letting me know myself better than others know me. I pray thee then, make me better than they suppose, and forgive me for what they do not know.” ABU BEKR. FATHER-IN-LAW OF MOHAMMED, HIS FOLLOWER AND SUCCESSOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #106 “We do not know one-millionth of one per cent about anything.” THOMAS A. EDISON. AMERICAN INVENTOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #107 “1 am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything.” VLADIMIR NABOKOV. RUSSIAN-BORN AMERICAN AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #108 “A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.” WILSON MIZNER. AMERICAN HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #109 “Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.” OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. AMERICAN WRITER AND PHYSICIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #110 “Knowledge is the action of the soul.” BEN JONSON. ENGLISH DRAMATIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #111 “Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.” THOMAS MACAULAY. ENGLISH HISTORIAN AND STATESMAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #112 “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. AMERICAN STATESMAN AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #113 “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. THE IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #114 “It is the greatest nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.” W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. ENGLISH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #115 “Knowledge is power.” FRANCIS BACON. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #116 “Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one place.” JOSH BILLINGS. AMERICAN HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #117 “Laughter is sunshine in a house.” WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. ENGLISH AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #118 “A complete revaluation takes place in your physical and mental being when you’ve laughed and had some fun.” CATHERINE PONDER. AMERICAN MOTIVATIONAL WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #119 “Laughter has something in it in common with the ancient winds of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes men forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves; something that they cannot resist.” G.K. CHESTERTON. ENGLISH CRITIC, NOVELIST AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #120 “The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.” NICOLAS CHAMFORT. FRENCH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #121 “Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.” ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. AMERICAN POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #122 “It’s impossible to speak highly enough of the virtues, the dangers and the power of shared laughter.” FRANCOISE SAGAN. FRENCH NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #123 “We are all here for a spell. Get all the good laughs you can.” WILL ROGERS. AMERICAN ACTOR AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #124 “Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” W. H. AUDEN. ENGLISH POET AND ESSAYIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #125 “For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.” A.A. MILNE. ENGLISH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #126 “It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility.” SAMUEL JOHNSON. ENGLISH CRITIC AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #127 “Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.” WILLIAM HAZLITT. ENGLISH ESSAYIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #128 “I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” HARRY S. TRUMAN. PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #129 “Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #130 “The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is – that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.” EDMUND BURKE. BRITISH POLITICIAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #131 “No man e’er found a happy life by chance, or yawned it into being with a wish. An art it is, and must be learnt; and learnt with unremitting effort, or be lost.” EDWARD YOUNG. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #132 “Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed the passage with you.” WALT WHITMAN. AMERICAN POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #133 “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” DORIS LESSING. ENGLISH NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #134 “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.” ARISTOTLE. GREEK PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #135 “Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” FRANCIS BACON. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #136 “Learning makes a man fit company for himself.” THOMAS FULLER. ENGLISH HISTORIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #137 “To live long, live slowly.” MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. ROMAN ORATOR, STATESMAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #138 “Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it.” HECTOR CRAWFORD. FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION PROGAM MAKER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #139 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” HELEN KELLER. DEAF AND BLIND AMERICAN LECTURER, WRITER AND SCHOLAR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #140 “Live every day as though it’s your last. One day you’ll get it right!” ZIG ZIGLAR. AMERICAN WRITER AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #141 “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” JOHN LENNON. FAMOUS BEATLE, SINGER AND SONG WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #142 “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what?’” SYDNEY J. HARRIS. NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #143 “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” WILLIAM JAMES. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #144 “Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” SARAH BERNHARDT. FRENCH ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #145 “Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” VOLTAIRE. FRENCH AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #146 “I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.” ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #147 “The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.” DAME NELLIE MELBA. FAMOUS OPERA SINGER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #148 “There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.” GEORGE SANTAYANA. SPANISH-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #149 “The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.” R.D. LAING. SCOTTISH PSYCHIATRIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #150 “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer; and understand, for all that is life.” JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI. INDIAN THEOSOPHIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #151 “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” SOREN AABY KIERKEGAARD. DANISH PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #152 “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had.” HENRY JAMES. AMERICAN NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #153 “These, then, are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” WILLIAM JAMES. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #154 “We love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.” FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE. GERMAN PHILOSOPHER, POET AND SCHOLAR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #155 “The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.” LEO TOLSTOY. RUSSIAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #156 “Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things: in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.” SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. ENGLISH CHEMIST AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #157 “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die... life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #158 “I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” AGATHA CHRISTIE. ENGLISH MYSTERY WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #159 “Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive ... one must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. ONCE FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #160 “Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” DAG HAMMERSKJOLD. SWEDISH DIPLOMAT. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #161 “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. AMERICAN NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #162 “The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” C. S. LEWIS. IRISH BORN ACADEMIC, WRITER AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #163 “The only thing I know about love is that love is all there is ... love can do all but raise the dead.” EMILY DICKINSON. AMERICAN POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #164 “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbour.” MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA. YUGOSLAV BORN, INDIAN MISSIONARY. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #165 “To love means never to be afraid of the windstorms of life: should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS. SWISS-BORN AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #166 “Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me.” ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH. AMERICAN WRITER AND AVIATOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #167 “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.” ERICH FROMM. GERMAN-AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #168 “Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married for a quarter of a century. “ MARK TWAIN. AMERICAN WRITER AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #169 “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” DOROTHY PARKER. AMERICAN WRITER AND SATIRIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #170 “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” RAINER MARIA RILKE. AUSTRIAN POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #171 “Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” JEAN ANOUILH. FRENCH DRAMATIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #172 “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.” ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY. FRENCH AIRMAN AND AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #173 “Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.” OG MANDINO. AMERICAN AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #174 “Men and women are made to love each other. It’s only by loving each other that they can achieve anything.” CHRISTINA STEAD. AUSTRALIAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #175 “God doesn’t look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.” MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA. YUGOSLAV-BORN MISSIONARY. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #176 “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” ALBERT CAMUS. FRENCH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #177 “Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.” M. SCOTT PECK. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #178 “The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.” BLAISE PASCAL. FRENCH PHYSICIST,THEOLOGIAN AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #179 “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love” KHALIL GIBRAN. LEBANESE POET, WRITER, ARTIST AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #180 “I define love thus: the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” M. SCOTT PECK. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST AND WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #181 “Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes him by. “ MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. SPANISH AUTHOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #182 “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” STEPHEN LEACOCK. ENGLISH BORN CANADIAN ECONOMIST AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #183 “Luck to me is something else. Hard work – and realising what is opportunity and what isn’t.” LUCILLE BALL. AMERICAN ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #184 “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.” KAHLIL GIBRAN. LEBANESE POET, WRITER, ARTIST AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #185 “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last – more than passion or even sex.” SIMONE SIGNORET. FRENCH ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #186 “Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping, for only the hand of life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.” KAHLIL GIBRAN. LEBANESE POET, ARTIST AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #187 “One man who has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #188 “Luck favours the mind that is prepared.” LOUIS PASTEUR. FRENCH BACTERIOLOGIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #189 “When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be over run with nettles.” HORACE WALPOLE. ENGLISH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #190 “The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.” JOSEPH CONRAD. ENGLISH NOVELIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #191 “The greater part of our happiness or misery depend on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.” MARTHA WASHINGTON. FORMER FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #192 “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” JOHN MILTON. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #193 “Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” BERNHARD BERENSON. AMERICAN ART CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #194 “Where there is a great love, there are always miracles.” WILLA CATHER. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #195 “A miracle is an event which creates faith. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive; therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. IRISH DRAMATIST, PLAYWRIGHT AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #196 “Everything is miraculous. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one’s bath.” PABLO PICASSO. SPANISH PAINTER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #197 “Why, who makes much of a miracle? as to me I known nothing else but miracles – to me every hour of night and day is a miracle, every cubic inch of space a miracle.” WALT WHITMAN. AMERICAN POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #198 “Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.” EURIPIDES. THE GREEK DRAMATIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #199 “The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. IRISH DRAMATIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #200 “One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.” PIERRE CORNELLE. FRENCH DRAMATIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #201 “I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.” SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. ENGLISH CHEMIST AND POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #202 “Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no-one could find fault with it.” CARDINAL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. ENGLISH THEOLOGIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #203 “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ELBERT HUBBARD. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #204 “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.” SYDNEY SMITH. ENGLISH ESSAYIST, CLERGYMAN AND WIT. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #205 “It has taken me thirty-three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.” STIRLING MOSS. ENGLISH RACING DRIVER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #206 “If you have made mistakes ... there is always another chance for you ... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” MARY PICKFORD. AMERICAN ACTRESS. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #207 “Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.” TYRON EDWARDS. AMERICAN THEOLOGIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #208 “He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” SAMUEL SMILES. SCOTTISH AUTHOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #209 “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” EDWARD JOHN PHELPS. AMERICAN LAWYER AND DIPLOMAT. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #210 “A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” ALEXANDER POPE. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #211 “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” PEARL S. BUCK. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #212 “There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from. There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.” ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS. SWISS BORN AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #213 “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #214 “The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.” JEAN DE LA BRUYER. FRENCH SATIRIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #215 “Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.” JAMES BALDWIN. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #216 “Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.” HENRY FORD. AMERICAN MOTOR CAR MANUFACTURER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #217 “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. “ SPIKE MILLIGAN. ENGLISH COMEDIAN. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #218 “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” HENRY FORD. AMERICAN MOTOR CAR MANUFACTURER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #219 “Money makes money, and the money, money makes, makes more money.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. AMERICAN STATESMAN AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #220 “Money is like muck, not good except to be spread.” FRANCIS BACON. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #221 “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” MARY ANN EVANS. ENGLISH NOVELIST, BETTER KNOWN AS GEORGE ELIOT. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #222 “Music is the medicine of the troubled mind” WALTER HADDON. ENGLISH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #223 “He who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.” ROBERT BROWNING. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #224 “There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #225 “Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.” CHIEF SEATHL. IN A LETTER WRITTEN TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #226 “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” JOHN F. KENNEDY. THE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #227 “When men are rightly occupied, then amusement grows out of the work as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body.” JOHN RUSKIN. ENGLISH AUTHOR AND ART CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #228 “Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND MYSTIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #229 “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST. HENRY JOHN KAISER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #230 “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” FRANCIS BACON. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #231 “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” JEAN PAUL RICHTER. GERMAN NOVELIST AND HUMORIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #232 “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” HENRY FORD1. AMERICAN MOTOR CAR MANUFACTURER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #233 “A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.” ALBERT EINSTEIN. GERMAN BORN PHYSICIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #234 “To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.” WILLIAM JAMES. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #235 “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognise them.” ANN LANDERS. AMERICAN JOURNALIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #236 “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. IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #237 “In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” ALBERT CAMUS. FRENCH WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #238 “The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” JAMES CABELL. AMERICAN NOVELIST AND JOURNALIST. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #239 “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the horizon of the spirit.” HELEN KELLER. DEAF AND BLIND AMERICAN LETURER, WRITER AND SCHOLAR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #240 “Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow; and through the wild-piled snowdrift the warm rosebuds below.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #241 “To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in – to lend a hand!” EDWARD EVERETT HALE. AMERICAN CLERGYMAN AND INSPIRATIONAL WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #242 “As the beams to a house, as the bones to the body – so is order to all things.” ROBERT SOUTHEY. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #243 “Order is heaven’s first law.” ALEXANDER POPE. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #244 “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” SAMUEL SMILES. SCOTTISH AUTHOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #245 “A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” LEONARDO DA VINCI. ITALIAN PAINTER, SCULPTOR, ARCHITECT AND INVENTOR. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #246 “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.” WILLIAM BLAKE. ENGLISH POET. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #247 “What is originality? 1t is being one’s self, and reporting accurately what we see.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON. AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #248 “All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” JOHN STUART MILL. ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #249 “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. As our case is new, so must we think anew and act anew.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COACH’S COMMENTS:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS #250 “Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.” ALICE MUNRO. AMERICAN WRITER. COACH’S COMMENTS:
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