I KNEW YOU WOULD COME

There were two childhood buddies who went through school and college and even joined the army together. War broke out and they were fighting in the same unit. One night they were ambushed. Bullets were flying all over and out of the darkness came a voice, "Harry, please come and help me." Harry immediately recognized the voice of his childhood buddy, Bill. He asked the captain if he could go. The captain said, "No, I can't let you go, I am already short-handed and I cannot afford to lose one more person. Besides, the way Bill sounds he is not going to make it." Harry kept quiet. Again the voice came, "Harry, please come and help me." Harry sat quietly because the captain had refused earlier. Again and again the voice came. Harry couldn't contain himself any longer and told the captain, "Captain, this is my childhood buddy. I have to go and help." The captain reluctantly let him go. Harry crawled through the darkness and dragged Bill back into the trench. They found that Bill was dead. Now the captain got angry and shouted at Harry, "Didn't I tell you he was not going to make it? He is dead, you could have been killed and I could have lost a hand. That was a mistake." Harry replied, "Captain, I did the right thing. When I reached Bill he was still alive and his last words were 'Harry, I knew you would come.

Good relationships are hard to find and once developed should be nurtured. We are often told: Live your dream. But you cannot live your dream at the expense of others. People who do so are unscrupulous. We need to make personal sacrifices for our family, friends, and those we care about and who depend on us.

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Be Enthusiastic

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm and success go hand in hand, but enthusiasm comes first. Enthusiasm inspires confidence, raises morale, builds loyalty! and is priceless. Enthusiasm is contagious. You can feel enthusiasm by the way a person talks, walks or shakes hands. Enthusiasm is a habit that one can acquire and practice.

Many decades ago, Charles Schwab, who was earning a salary of a million dollars a year, was asked if he was being paid such a high salary because of his exceptional ability to produce steel. Charles Schwab replied, "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."

Live while you are alive. Don't die before you are dead.

Enthusiasm and desire are what change mediocrity to excellence.

Water turns into steam with a difference of only one degree in temperature and steam can move some of the biggest engines in the world.

That is what enthusiasm helps us to do in our lives.

SPOKEN WORDS CAN'T BE RETRIEVED

A farmer insulted his neighbor. Realizing his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask for forgiveness. The preacher told him to take a bag of feathers and drop them in the center of town. The farmer did as he was told. Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn't as the feathers had all blown away. When he returned with the empty bag, the preacher said, "The same thing is true about your words. You dropped them rather easily but you cannot retrieve them, so be very careful in choosing your words."

Motivational Quotes for the day (Gifts)

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji

Motivational quotes for the day (Soul)

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
~Marcus Aurelius

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean De La Fontaine

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
~Wayne Dyer

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~Oscar Wilde

Motivational quotes for the day (Personal Responsibility)

Ultimately, whatever is in your reality is your responsibility.
~Nisandeh Neta

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
~Albert Schweitzer

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
~Jim Rohn

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
William J. Bennett

Motivational quotes (Happiness)

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.
You have to catch it yourself.
~Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be happy, be.
~Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
~Palmer Sondreal

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
~Seneca

Think Of Others

A man died and St. Peter asked him if he would like to go to heaven or hell. The man asked if he could see both before deciding. St. Peter took him to hell first and the man saw a big hall with a long table, lots of food on it and music playing. He also saw rows of people with pale, sad faces. They looked starved and there was no laughter. And he observed one more thing. Their hands were tied to four-foot forks and knives and they were trying to get the food from the center of the table to put into their mouths. But they couldn't. Then, he went to see heaven. There he saw a big hall with a long table, with lots of food on the table and music playing. He noticed rows of people on both sides of the table with their hands tied to four-foot forks and knives also. But he observed there was something different here. People were laughing and were well-fed and healthy-looking. He noticed that they were feeding one another across the table. The result was happiness, prosperity, enjoyment, and gratification because they were not thinking of themselves alone. The same is true of our lives.

Motivational quotes for the day (Forgiveness)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain


To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~Lewis B. Smedes

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
~George Herbert

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
~Harriet Nelson

Motivational Quotes (Present Moment)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

~Buddha

The point of power is always in the present moment.

~Louis L. Hay

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here,

and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living.

When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live.

Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

~Wayne Dyer

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

~Abraham Maslow

The art of life is to live in the present moment

~Emmet Fox

He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath.

~Akhenaton (King of Egypt 14th century B.C.)

God Himself culminates in the present moment.
~Henry David Thoreau

Motivational quotes for the day (Confidence)

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
~Francois Da La Rouchefoucauld

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
~John Milton

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
~William Hazlett

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Motivational quotes (Procrastination)

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~William James

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

You may delay, but time will not.
~Benjamin Franklin

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
~Eva Young

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
~Victor Kiam

Motivational quotes for the day (Challenges)

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
~Albert Einstein

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
~Chinese Proverb

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
~Henry B. Wilson

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
~George Patton

Motivational quotes for the day (Faith)

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
~Henry David Thoreau

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.
~William James

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
~John Lancaster Spalding

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
~St. Augustine

Consideration - Must read

One day, a ten-year-old boy went to an ice cream shop, sat at a table and asked the waitress, "How much is an ice-cream cone?" She said, "seventy-five cents." The boy started counting the coins he had in his hand. Then he asked how much a small cup of ice-cream was. The waitress impatiently replied, "sixty five cents." The boy said, "I will have the small ice-cream cup." He had his ice-cream, paid the bill and left. When the waitress came to pick up the empty plate, she was touched. Underneath were ten cent coins as tip.

The little boy had consideration for the waitress before he ordered his ice-crearn. He showed sensitivity and caring. He thought of others before himself. If we all thought like the little boy, we would have a great place to live. Show consideration, courtesy, and politeness. Thoughtfulness shows a caring attitude.

Motivational quotes for the day (Doing your Best)

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
~Albert Einstein

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
~Helen Keller

If a man does his best, what else is there?
~George S. Patton

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
~Harriet Martineau

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.
~Harold Ruopp

Never settle for anything less than your best.
~Brian Tracy

WE SEE THINGS NOT THE WAY THEY ARE BUT THE WAY WE ARE

There is a legend about a wise man who was sitting outside his village. A traveler came up and asked him, "What kind of people live in this village, because I am looking to move from my present one?" The wise man asked, "What kind of people live where you want to move from?" The man said, "They are mean, cruel, rude." The wise man replied, "The same kind of people live in this village too." After some time another traveler came by and asked the same question and the wise man asked him, "What kind of people live where you want to move from?" And the traveler replied, "The people are very kind, courteous, polite and good." The wise man said, "You will find the same kind of people here too."

What is the moral of the story?

Generally we see the world not the way it is but the way we are. Most of the time, other people's behavior is a reaction to our own.

Motivational quotes for the day (Helping Others)

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
~Albert Schweitzer

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
~Laurence Leamer, King of the Night

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.
~Knights of Pythagoras

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
~Karl Reiland

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~Albert Pike

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

Motivational Quotes for the day (Personal Resposibility)

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
~Albert Schweitzer

Accountability breeds response-ability.
~Stephen Covey

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
~Anthony Robbins

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln

LIFE IS A BOOMERANG

Whether it is our thoughts, actions or behavior, sooner or later they return and with great accuracy. Treat people with respect on your way up because you will be meeting them on your way down. The following story is taken from The Best of Bits & Pieces.

Many years ago two boys were working their way through Stanford University. Their funds got desperately low, and the idea came to them to engage Ignacy Paderewski for a piano recital. They would use the funds to help pay their board and tuition.
The great pianist's manager asked for a guarantee ofÄ$2,000. The guarantee was a lot of money in those days, but the boys agreed and proceeded to promote the concert. They worked hard, only to find that they had grossed only $1,600. After the concert the two boys told the great artist the bad news. They gave him the entire $1,600, along with a promissory note for $400, explaining that they would earn the amount at the earliest possible moment and send the money to him. It looked like the end of their college careers. "No, boys," replied Paderewski, "that won't do." Then, tearing the note in two, he returned the money to them as well. "Now," he told them, "take out of this $1,600 all of your expenses and keep for each of you 10 percent of the balance for your work. Let me have the rest."

The years rolled by. World War I came and went. Paderewski, now premier of Poland, was striving to feed thousands of starving people in his native land. The only person in the world who could help him was Herbert Hoover, who was in charge of the US Food and Relief Bureau. Hoover responded and soon thousands of tons of food were sent to Poland. After the starving people were fed, Paderewski journeyed to Paris to thank Hoover for the relief sent him. "That's all right, Mr. Paderewski ," was Hoover's reply. "Besides, you don't remember it, but you helped me once when I was a student at college, and I was in trouble." It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Goodness has a way of coming back; that is the nature of the beast. One doesn't have to do good with a desire to get back. It just happens automatically.

Motivational Quotes for the day (Attitude)

We tend to live up to our expectations.
~Earl Nightingale

It is not the position, but the disposition.
~J.E. Dinger

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
~William John Bennett

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~Washington Irving

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~William Shakespeare

Motivational quotes for the day (Love)

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
~Mother Teresa

A heart that loves is always young.
~Greek Proverb

Love and you shall be loved.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
~James Allen

I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

LIFE IS AN ECHO

A little boy got angry with his mother and shouted at her, "I hate you, I hate you." Because of fear of reprimand, he ran out of the house. He went up to the valley and shouted, "I hate you, I hate you," and back came the echo, "I hate you, I hate you." This was the first time in his life he had heard an echo. He got scared, went to his mother for protection and said there was a bad boy in the valley who shouted "I hate you, I hate you." The mother understood and she asked her son to go back and shout, "I love you, I love you." The little boy went and shouted, "I love you, I love you," and back came the echo.

That taught the little boy a lesson that our life is like an echo: We get back what we give. Benjamin Franklin said, "When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.”

YOUR STRENGTHS AND YOUR WEAKNESSES

Take Inventory: Make a List of All Your Strengths and Weaknesses. Write it on a Piece of paper and make an action plan accordingly.

Successful people realize their limitations and build on their strengths. Focus on what you want to do and be, rather than what you don't.

Motivational quotes for the day (Effort)

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
~William James

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
~Pat Riley

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
~Marcus Aurelius

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
~William James

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
~Henry David Thoreau

Motivational quotes for the day (Kindness)

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.
~Washington Irving

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
~Mother Teresa

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
~Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

False Limitations

Henry Ford gave this world the V8 engine. He did not have much formal education. In fact, he did not go to school beyond the age of 14. He was intelligent enough to know there had to be a V8 engine but he was ignorant and didn't know how to build it. So he asked all his highly qualified, educated people to build one. But they told him what could be done and what couldn't. According to them, a V8 was an impossibility. But Henry Ford insisted on having his V8. A few months later he asked his people if they had the V8 and they replied, "We know what can be done and we also know what cannot be done and V8 is an impossibility." This went on for many months and still Henry Ford said, "I want my V8." And shortly thereafter the same people produced his V8 engine. How come? They let their imagination run beyond academic limitation.

Education teaches us what can be done and sometimes also teaches us false limitations.It teaches us what we can do and also teaches us what we cannot do.


THE BUMBLEBEE

According to scientists, the bumblebee's body is too heavy and its wing span too small. Aerodynamically, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that and it keeps flying.


When you don't know your limitations, you go out and surprise yourself. In hindsight, you wonder if you had any limitations. The only limitations a person has are those that are self-imposed. Don't let education put limitations on you.

Motivational quotes for the day (Self-Improvement)

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
~C.R. Lawton

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~Abraham Lincoln

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~Aldous Huxley

Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
~James Allen

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~Zig Ziglar

Motivational quotes (The Power Of Now)

Forever is composed of nows.
~Emily Dickinson

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
~Montaigne

Nothing is worth more than this day.
~Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good 'now' days?
~Robert M. Young

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
~H.G. Wells

Motivational quotes for the day (Determination)

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~Leonardo Da Vinci

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
~George Allen

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~Calvin Coolidge

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
~Dr. Robert Schuller

We will either find a way, or make one.
~Hannibal

Motivational quotes for the day (Strength)

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
~Marcus Antonius

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
~Mahatma Gandhi

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
~T.S. Eliot

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~Mother Teresa

Motivational quotes for the day (Goals)

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
~Abraham Lincoln

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
~Andrew Carnegie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~Louisa May Alcott

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
~Seneca

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~T.S. Eliot

Motivational quotes for the day (Belief)

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests."
-- John Stuart Mill

"Success is not what you think it is... it is what you believe it is... and most never believe..."
-- Doug Firebaugh

"If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind."
-- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe."
-- Mark Victor Hansen

Motivational quotes for the day (learning/education)

"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."
-- Rene Descartes

"The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have, or do."
-- Brian Tracy

"I kept 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

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
-- Benjamin Franklin