Straight Talk for Success Quotes Workbook

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1 Straight Talk for Success Quotes Workbook g Making time for introspection and creating steps for action Bud Bilanich The Common Sense Guy 1

2 Straight Talk for Success Quotes Workbook Bud Bilanich The Common Sense Guy 3

3 INTRODUCTION Here is your Straight Talk for Success Quotes workbook. I suggest that you print this book, and put it into a three hole punched binder. This is a workbook -- that means that there is work to be done. In this case, I think a printed copy and an old fashioned paper or pen is best. I hope that these quotes will inspire you. More importantly, I hope that they will inspire you to action. You ll notice that every quote comes with two questions. The first question calls for introspection. Think about what the quote in question says about you and your life. The second question calls for action. Decide what you are going to do as a result of the quote, and then do it. Answering these two questions for each quote and then acting on your answers is one of the secrets to creating a successful life and career. You ll notice that there are five quotes per week, for 52 weeks. I have chosen to number the weeks In this way, you can begin your year s worth of introspection and action at any point in time. Personally, I think beginning with Week 1 with the next Monday in your calendar is a great way to do it. Not all quotes will speak to you. If a quote doesn t resonate with you, skip that day and pick up the next day. If you find a preponderance of quotes that don t resonate with you, I suggest you become a little more introspective and less literal in your interpretation of the quotes. I hope these quotes enlighten and inspire you. More important, I hope that you will commit to acting on them. You have my best wishes for your continued success in your life and career. Bud Bilanich The Common Sense Guy Denver CO, USA 4

4 Week 1 Monday Self Confidence Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Whoo Hoo What a Ride! Attributed to Bill McKenna, Anonymous and in a Nissan ad 5

5 Week 1 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton 6

6 Week 1 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don t want to do. John Paul DaJoria 7

7 Week 1 Thursday Communication Skills Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch you actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw 8

8 Week 1 Friday Interpersonal Competence Self-knowledge is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. Karen Horney 9

9 Week 2 Monday Self Confidence There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind. Brian Tracy 10

10 Week 2 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact You can t start a fire without a spark. Bruce Springsteen 11

11 Week 2 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Don t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. Anonymous 12

12 Week 2 Thursday Communication Skills The mere act of asking, can be the main difference between a persons success and another persons station in life. Robert Ringer 13

13 Week 2 Friday Interpersonal Competence Sometimes it s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing the colour to slide down on the rainbow. Douglas Pagels, These Are The Gifts I d Like to Give You 14

14 Week 3 Monday Self Confidence Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have." Brian Tracy 15

15 Week 3 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow the small ones. Ralph Waldo Emerson 16

16 Week 3 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Once I decide to do something, I can t have people telling me I can t. If there s a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, or crawl under it. Kitty Kelly 17

17 Week 3 Thursday Communication Skills All master sales people know that ideas can be sold, where merchandise cannot. Napoleon Hill 18

18 Week 3 Friday Interpersonal Competence Some pursue happiness, others create it. Anonymous 19

19 Week 4 Monday Self Confidence The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington 20

20 Week 4 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson 21

21 Week 4 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Vaclav Havel 22

22 Week 4 Thursday Communication Skills In all things, success depends on previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure. Confucius 23

23 Week 4 Friday Interpersonal Competence What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson 24

24 Week 5 Monday Self Confidence Climbing is not about conquering the rock; it is about conquering yourself. Jim Collins, Author, Good to Great 25

25 Week 5 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. Faith Baldwin 26

26 Week 5 Wednesday Outstanding Performance The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. Jim Rohn 27

27 Week 5 Thursday Communication Skills Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you ll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter 28

28 Week 5 Friday Interpersonal Competence Seek first to understand, then be understood. First the diagnosis, then the prescription Steven Covey 29

29 Week 6 Monday Self Confidence Courage means flying in the face of criticism, relying on yourself, being willing to accept and learn from the consequences of all your choices. It means believing enough in yourself and in living your life as you choose so that you can cut the strings whose ends other people hold and use to pull you in contrary directions. Wayne Dyer 30

30 Week 6 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Charisma is an intense form of self belief. Robert Wilson 31

31 Week 6 Wednesday Outstanding Performance If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavours to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau 32

32 Week 6 Thursday Communication Skills Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. Albert Einstein 33

33 Week 6 Friday Interpersonal Competence When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. Dale Carnegie 34

34 Week 7 Monday Self Confidence Challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish. Cecil Springer 35

35 Week 7 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Personal power is all about being so authentic and centred that other people are compelled to enter your orbit. Anita Sharpe 36

36 Week 7 Wednesday Outstanding Performance I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour. Henry David Thoreau 37

37 Communication Skills Week 7 Thursday Positive self-discipline puts you in the drivers seat. When you rehearse the correct moves and internalise them, you will become a high-performance human being. Denis Waitley 38

38 Week 7 Friday Interpersonal Competence You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this worlds happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. Dale Carnegie 39

39 Week 8 Monday Self Confidence Throw your heart over the fence, and the rest of you will follow. Norman Vincent Peale 40

40 Week 8 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers: powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. Orison Swett Marden 41

41 Week 8 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. Marilyn Grey 42

42 Week 8 Thursday Communication Skills What is well conceived is clearly said. Nicolas Boileau 43

43 Week 8 Friday Interpersonal Competence You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie 44

44 Week 9 Monday Self Confidence Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful of happy. Norman Vincent Peale 45

45 Week 9 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Try not to become more of a success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein 46

46 Week 9 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. Publius Syrus 47

47 Week 9 Thursday Communication Skills We think because we have words. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. Madeleine L Engle 48

48 Week 9 Friday Interpersonal Competence My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano 49

49 Week 10 Monday Self Confidence Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. Norman Vincent Peale 50

50 Week 10 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. Mark Twain 51

51 Week 10 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford 52

52 Week 10 Thursday Communication Skills The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln 53

53 Week 10 Friday Interpersonal Competence The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson 54

54 Week 11 Monday Self Confidence In order to succeed, we must first believe we can Michael Korda 55

55 Week 11 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Rudeness is the weak mans imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer 56

56 Week 11 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. Henry Ford 57

57 Week 11 Thursday Communication Skills It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln 58

58 Week 11 Friday Interpersonal Competence Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Sir Arthur Helps 59

59 Week 12 Monday Self Confidence Nothing happens unless first a dream Carl Sandburg 60

60 Week 12 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed. Erastus Wilman 61

61 Week 12 Wednesday Outstanding Performance I stand where the last man left off. Thomas Edison 62

62 Week 12 Thursday Communication Skills 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 63

63 Week 12 Friday Interpersonal Competence Everyone wants to be appreciated. So, if you appreciate someone, don t keep it a secret. Mary Kay Ash 64

64 Week 13 Monday Self Confidence The best nourishment for the soul is to create your own risks. Jim Lehren 65

65 Week 13 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up. Jesse Jackson 66

66 Week 13 Wednesday Outstanding Performance If we all did things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison 67

67 Week 13 Thursday Communication Skills You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi 68

68 Week 13 Friday Interpersonal Competence You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson 69

69 Week 14 Monday Self Confidence The moment one definitely commits oneself, then divine providence moves too. Johann von Goethe 70

70 Week 14 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Stanley Walker 71

71 Week 14 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison 72

72 Week 14 Thursday Communication Skills I keep six honest serving-men, they taught me all I knew, their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling 73

73 Week 14 Friday Interpersonal Competence It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 74

74 Week 15 Monday Self Confidence Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin 75

75 Week 15 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. Henry Clay 76

76 Week 15 Wednesday Outstanding Performance There is a time for everything. Thomas A. Edison 77

77 Week 15 Thursday Communication Skills Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling 78

78 Week 15 Friday Interpersonal Competence It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 79

79 Week 16 Monday Self Confidence Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. Henry Miller 80

80 Week 16 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you towards failure. Joseph Sugarman 81

81 Week 16 Wednesday Outstanding Performance I have not failed. I ve just found 10,000 ways that don t work Thomas Albert Edison 82

82 Week 16 Thursday Communication Skills A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner American Screenwriter 83

83 Week 16 Friday Interpersonal Competence If you smile at me, I will understand; because that is something everyone everywhere does in the same language. Crosby, Stills and Nash 84

84 Week 17 Monday Self Confidence Usually a person has more faith in their fear and faith in their future. Doug Firebaugh 85

85 Week 17 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will never have given help to those who were in need. That I will have left the earth a better place for what I ve done and who I ve been. C. Hoppe 86

86 Week 17 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Enthusiasm is the mother of effort. Without it, nothing great was ever accomplished. Ralph Waldo Emerson 87

87 Week 17 Thursday Communication Skills Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix 88

88 Week 17 Friday Interpersonal Competence Leadership should not be concentrated at the top of the organization. Everyone can lead create opportunities for people to set up. Bud Bilanich 89

89 Week 18 Monday Self Confidence Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself your strengths and your limitations. Judith Barwick 90

90 Week 18 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact You are in control of your life. Don t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. Barbara Hall 91

91 Week 18 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely give concrete form to the intangible desire. Napoleon Hill 92

92 Week 18 Thursday Communication Skills To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld 93

93 Week 18 Friday Interpersonal Competence In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Al Rogers 94

94 Week 19 Monday Self Confidence The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Apple computer advertisement 95

95 Week 19 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension. Dan 96

96 Week 19 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Do your work with you whole heart and you will succeed. There s so little competition. Elbert Hubbard 97

97 Week 19 Thursday Communication Skills Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides 98

98 Week 19 Friday Interpersonal Competence The important thing is this. To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles dubois 99

99 Week 20 Monday Self Confidence Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller 100

100 Week 20 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness is misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington 101

101 Week 20 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Think enthusiastically about everything, but especially your job. If you do, you ll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you ll shake it to pieces. You ll love it to greatness. You ll upgrade it. You ll fill it with prestige and power. Norman Vincent Peale 102

102 Week 20 Thursday Communication Skills The great leaders are like the best conductors they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee 103

103 Week 20 Friday Interpersonal Competence Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead 104

104 Week 21 Monday Self Confidence No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller 105

105 Week 21 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Do not worry about holding your high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Confucius 106

106 Week 21 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Get a good idea and stick with it. Dog it, and work at it until it s done and done right. Walt Disney 107

107 Week 21 Thursday Communication Skills Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Charles Caleb Colton 108

108 Week 21 Friday Interpersonal Competence As a rule of thumb, involve everyone in everything. Tom Peters 109

109 Week 22 Monday Self Confidence Life tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. Richard M. DeVos 110

110 Week 22 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. Confucius 111

111 Week 22 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Remember anything you want that s valuable requires you break through short term pain in order to gain long term pleasure. Anthony Robbins 112

112 Week 22 Thursday Communication Skills Cool words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on mens souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe, and quiet, and comfort the hearer. Blaise Pascal 113

113 Week 22 Friday Interpersonal Competence There are precious few Einsteins among us. Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. Roger Von Oech 114

114 Week 23 Monday Self Confidence Life tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. Richard M. DeVos 115

115 Week 23 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Good business leaders create vision, articulate it, passionately own it and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch 116

116 Week 23 Wednesday Outstanding Performance You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan 117

117 Week 23 Thursday Communication Skills If you have knowledge, let others light their candle at it. Margaret Fuller 118

118 Week 23 Friday Interpersonal Competence The job of coach is to put players in the position to win. Magic Johnson 119

119 Week 24 Monday Self Confidence The way yourself sets the standard for others. Sonya Friedman 120

120 Week 24 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Don t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Whitman 121

121 Week 24 Wednesday Outstanding Performance High EXPECTATIONS are they key to everything. Sam Walton 122

122 Week 24 Thursday Communication Skills Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. George Sala 123

123 Week 24 Friday Interpersonal Competence The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. Fred A. Manske, Jr 124

124 Week 25 Monday Self Confidence All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain 125

125 Week 25 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers 126

126 Week 25 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. Richard Kline 127

127 Week 25 Thursday Communication Skills The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. Fénelon 128

128 Week 25 Friday Interpersonal Competence What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Thaddeus Golas 129

129 Week 26 Monday Self Confidence Keep away from the people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always to that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain 130

130 Week 26 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Hide not your talents, for use they were made. What s a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin 131

131 Week 26 Wednesday Outstanding Performance No pressure, not diamonds. Mary Case 132

132 Week 26 Thursday Communication Skills It s good to shut up sometimes. Marcel Marceau 133

133 Week 26 Friday Interpersonal Competence If I accept you are you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming. I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 134

134 Week 27 Monday Self Confidence Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coué 135

135 Week 27 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 136

136 Week 27 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb 137

137 Week 27 Thursday Communication Skills It is the mark of an educational mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle 138

138 Week 27 Friday Interpersonal Competence All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. economist The Age of Uncertainty 139

139 Week 28 Monday Self Confidence Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter t. McIntyre 140

140 Week 28 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Be more concerned with you character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden 141

141 Week 28 Wednesday Outstanding Performance I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Frank Lloyd Wright 142

142 Week 28 Thursday Communication Skills There s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Walter Wellesley Red Smith 143

143 Week 28 Friday Interpersonal Competence Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done. Peter Drucker 144

144 Week 29 Monday Self Confidence A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist. Eleanor Roosevelt 145

145 Week 29 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Don t hide your light under a bushel. The Bible 146

146 Week 29 Wednesday Outstanding Performance If you re not happy every morning what you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you re not enthusiastic about doing that, you re not going to be successful. Donald M.Kendall 147

147 Week 29 Thursday Communication Skills Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde 148

148 Week 29 Friday Interpersonal Competence When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 149

149 Week 30 Monday Self Confidence Don t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. Wendy Wasserstein 150

150 Week 30 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard 151

151 Week 30 Wednesday Outstanding Performance We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. Calvin Coolidge 152

152 Week 30 Thursday Communication Skills Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. Amos Bronson Alcott 153

153 Week 30 Friday Interpersonal Competence This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. William Lyon Phelps 154

154 Week 31 Monday Self Confidence Hope is a good thing maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies. Stephen King 155

155 Week 31 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact You don t get to choose how you re going to die, only how you re going to live. Joan Baez 156

156 Week 31 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Entrepreneurs average 3.58 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. Lisa M. Amos 157

157 Week 31 Thursday Communication Skills It is alright to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. Richard Armour 158

158 Week 31 Friday Interpersonal Competence Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha 159

159 Week 32 Monday Self Confidence When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up at the same time. Anonymous 160

160 Week 32 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Aristotle 161

161 Week 32 Wednesday Outstanding Performance No one ever drowned in sweat. Lou Holtz 162

162 Week 32 Thursday Communication Skills Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you; you had better hold your tongue than them. 4 th Earl of Chesterfield Philip Dormer Stanhope 163

163 Week 32 Friday Interpersonal Competence No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy 164

164 Week 33 Monday Self Confidence Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie 165

165 Week 33 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle 166

166 Week 33 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Stephen King 167

167 Week 33 Thursday Communication Skills Speak little and well, if you wish to be considered as possessing merit. Old French Saying 168

168 Week 33 Friday Interpersonal Competence Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. Brian Tracy 169

169 Week 34 Monday Self Confidence Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson 170

170 Week 34 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact You are what you think you are. Bob Richards 171

171 Week 34 Wednesday Outstanding Performance The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in the persons determination. Tommy Lasorda 172

172 Week 34 Thursday Communication Skills According to most studies, peoples number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. Jerry Seinfeld 173

173 Week 34 Friday Interpersonal Competence If you want happiness for an hour take a nap. If you want happiness for a day go fishing. If you want happiness for a month get married. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime help someone else. Chinese proverb 174

174 Week 35 Monday Self Confidence Self-confidence is one important key to success. Preparation is an important key to self confidence. Arthur Ashe 175

175 Week 35 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin 176

176 Week 35 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Failure is success if you learn from it. Malcolm Forbes 177

177 Week 35 Thursday Communication Skills If you can t write your message in a sentence, you can t say it in an hour. Dianna Boothe 178

178 Week 35 Friday Interpersonal Competence Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody s going to know whether you do it nor not. Oprah Winfrey 179

179 Week 36 Monday Self Confidence We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt 180

180 Week 36 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Life isn t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw 181

181 Week 36 Wednesday Outstanding Performance In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. Anthony J. DAngelo 182

182 Week 36 Thursday Communication Skills The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. Unknown 183

183 Week 36 Friday Interpersonal Competence For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke 184

184 Week 37 Monday Self Confidence Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXII 185

185 Week 37 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. St. Francois of De Sales 186

186 Week 37 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Time is limited, so better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose. Lance Armstrong 187

187 Week 37 Thursday Communication Skills We think because we have words. The more words we have, the better we are able we are to think conceptually. Madeleine L Engle 188

188 Week 37 Friday Interpersonal Competence When we blame, we give away our power. Greg Anderson 189

189 Week 38 Monday Self Confidence There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. Winston Chrchill 190

190 Week 38 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. Vince Lombardi 191

191 Week 38 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin 192

192 Week 38 Thursday Communication Skills The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation or a relationship. Deborah Tannen 193

193 Week 38 Friday Interpersonal Competence Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That s why it s a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimborough 194

194 Week 39 Monday Self Confidence You begin by always expecting good things to happen. Tom Hopkins 195

195 Week 39 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi 196

196 Week 39 Wednesday Outstanding Performance People may forget how fast you did a job, but they will remember how well you did it. Anonymous 197

197 Week 39 Thursday Communication Skills Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr. 198

198 Week 39 Friday Interpersonal Competence If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? Why are you waiting? Stephen Levine 199

199 Week 40 Monday Self Confidence Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers 200

200 Week 40 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True. William Shakespeare 201

201 Week 40 Wednesday Outstanding Performance The secret joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl Buck 202

202 Week 40 Thursday Communication Skills The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William A Ward 203

203 Week 40 Friday Interpersonal Competence Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. Pooh! he whispered. Yes, Piglet? Nothing, said Piglet, taking Poohs paw. I just wanted to be sure of you. A.A. Milne 204

204 Week 41 Monday Self Confidence To change yourself, look at what you fear and what you hate and start there. Unknown 205

205 Week 41 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 206

206 Week 41 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by common sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie 207

207 Week 41 Thursday Communication Skills Personally, I m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill 208

208 Week 41 Friday Interpersonal Competence We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. Thinkexist.com 209

209 Week 42 Monday Self Confidence We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde 210

210 Week 42 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 211

211 Week 42 Wednesday Outstanding Performance In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. Will Rogers 212

212 Week 42 Thursday Communication Skills The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young animals for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France 213

213 Week 42 Friday Interpersonal Competence Whenever you re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. William James 214

214 Week 43 Monday Self Confidence Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon 215

215 Week 43 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Clarence Thomas 216

216 Week 43 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Even if you are on the right tract, you ll get run over it you sit in there. Will Rogers 217

217 Week 43 Thursday Communication Skills He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool for five minutes. Chinese proverb 218

218 Week 43 Friday Interpersonal Competence Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume 219

219 Week 44 Monday Self Confidence As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela 220

220 Week 44 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings 221

221 Week 44 Wednesday Outstanding Performance To be a world-record holder in the mile, a man must have the arrogance it takes to believe he can run faster than anyone ever has at the distance; and the humility it takes to actually do it. Herb Elliot, World-record holder in the mile,

222 Week 44 Thursday Communication Skills Lying is done with words and also with silence. Adrienne Rich 223

223 Week 44 Friday Interpersonal Competence Don t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind. Hamilton Mabie 224

224 Week 45 Monday Self Confidence If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don t. If you d like to win, but think you can t, it s almost a cinch you won t. Life s battles don t always go to the stronger, faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. Origin unknown 225

225 Week 45 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Don t reserve your best behaviour for special occasions. You can t have two sets of manners, two social codes one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. Lillian Eichler Watson 226

226 Week 45 Wednesday Outstanding Performance To be successful you can t show up to the potluck with just a fork. Dave Linger, co-founder and chairman of RE/MAX 227

227 Week 45 Thursday Communication Skills Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindberg 228

228 Week 45 Friday Interpersonal Competence There are three ways of dealing with difference; domination, compromise and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. Mary Parker Follett 229

229 Week 46 Monday Self Confidence People are like stained-glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 230

230 Week 46 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. Thomas Sowell 231

231 Week 46 Wednesday Outstanding Performance The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead 232

232 Week 46 Thursday Communication Skills People say conversation is a lost art; how often have I wished that it were. Edward R. Murrow 233

233 Week 46 Friday Interpersonal Competence I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles Schwab 234

234 Week 47 Monday Self Confidence Come to the edge. We can t. We re afraid. We can t. We will fall. Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire 235

235 Week 47 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments. Robert Kiyosaki 236

236 Week 47 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan 237

237 Week 47 Thursday Communication Skills The problem with communication..is the illusion that it has been accomplished. George Bernard Shaw 238

238 Week 47 Friday Interpersonal Competence Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa 239

239 Week 48 Monday Self Confidence To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett 240

240 Week 48 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. Francis Atterbury 241

241 Week 48 Wednesday Outstanding Performance You re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. Barbara Hall 242

242 Week 48 Thursday Communication Skills It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder that to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. George Elliot 243

243 Week 48 Friday Interpersonal Competence Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer 244

244 Week 49 Monday Self Confidence Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin 245

245 Week 49 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. Richard Bach 246

246 Week 49 Wednesday Outstanding Performance Few things are impossible to diligence and skill great works are performed, not by strength but perseverance. Samuel Johnson 247

247 Week 49 Thursday Communication Skills Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift 248

248 Week 49 Friday Interpersonal Competence Example is not the main thing influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer 249

249 Week 50 Monday Self Confidence The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton 250

250 Week 50 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact Accept everything about yourself I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end no apologies, no regrets. Clark Moustakas 251

251 Week 50 Wednesday Outstanding Performance No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw 252

252 Week 50 Thursday Communication Skills Don t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn t start a conversation if it didn t change once in a while. Kin Hubbard 253

253 Week 50 Friday Interpersonal Competence Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than others think safe, dreaming more than others think practical and expecting more than others think possible. Origin unknown 254

254 Week 51 Monday Self Confidence To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce 255

255 Week 51 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forger yourself one. Henry David Thoreau 256

256 Week 51 Wednesday Outstanding Performance You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Les Brown 257

257 Week 51 Thursday Communication Skills One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk. Margaret Chase Smith 258

258 Week 51 Friday Interpersonal Competence Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahil Gibran 259

259 Week 52 Monday Self Confidence When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?. Sydney Harris 260

260 Week 52 Tuesday Positive Personal Impact A good name will shine forever. Proverb 261

261 Week 52 Wednesday Outstanding Performance It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Al Batt 262

262 Week 52 Thursday Communication Skills I quote others only in order the better express myself. Michel de Montaigne 263

263 Week 52 Friday Interpersonal Competence Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu 264