A Few Things to Ponder

"Come to the edge," he said.
They said. 'We are afraid, 'Come to the edge, he said.
They came. He pushed them... And they flew.
Peter McWilliams

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil - c. 70-19 BC, Roman Poet

Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;
and there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Unknown

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
Dan Millman

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Emerson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else?
Unknown

Life is too short not to enjoy it and too long to live miserably.
Unknown

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

All who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure.
Emilo James Trujillo

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream.
This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

Mountains DO Move. . . One Stone at a Time.
Rick Beneteau

Purpose is the engine that powers our lives.
Denis Waitley

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.
Bob Proctor

Success is Easy....but so is Neglect
Jim Rohn

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
Anonymous

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.
Matthew Flickstein

One of God's arrangements is that after winter there should come beautiful spring days. It happens every year and it happens in every life.
Father Joseph

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

BIG, life-changing ideas usually show up as plain, little ideas that when given a bit of muscle, gradually evolve into things like…. eBay or Google!
Mick Dooley

It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lormier

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
Denis Waitley

I don’t think change is stressful. I think failure is stressful.
Bos Stearns - Venture Capitalist

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford

Argue for your limitations- and sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl Nightingale

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Unknown

The only limitation in your life is the limitation of your own thinking.
James A. Ray

Raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they’re always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Sir Winston Churchill

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall

Fortune and love befriend the bold.
Ovid

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank!
Jose Ortega y Gasset

There are two ways to face the future. One is with apprehension - the other is with anticipation!
Jim Rohn

I found it easier to get rich than to make excuses.
Jim Rohn

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.
Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living. Self - education will make you a fortune!
Jim Rohn

Wouldn't it be pitiful if your income grew but you didn't!
Jim Rohn

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.
Jim Rohn

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
Zig Ziglar

Everybody says they want to be free. Take a train off its tracks and it's free - but it can't go anywhere!
Zig Ziglar

Once you make a decision, the Universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like a taxi.  The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.
Claude Pepper

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Shari R. Barr

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.
Steve Coallier

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
Karl Wallenda

If you're walking on thin ice... you may as well dance.
Unknown

If you are not living on the edge chances are you have too much room.
Unknown

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein - Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

Pace yourself...an elephant can be swallowed, one bite at a time.
Dana Bidne

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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