Thoughts to Ponder, By E.T. Gurney

People are unreasonable, illogical, self-centered. 

Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish motives. 

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and real enemies.

Try to be successful anyway.

The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow. 

Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. 

Be honest and frank anyway.

People favor the underdog, but they chum up to the top dog.

 Fight for the underdog anyway.

What you spend years building can be destroyed overnight. 

Build anyway.

Give the world the best you have and chances are you will get kicked in the teeth. 

Give it anyway.

Food For Thought

 

Your life will be richer if every day this week you will make an effort to:

Mend a quarrel

Search for a forgotten friend

Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

Write a letter to someone.

Encourage someone.

Keep a promise.

Forget an old grudge.

Reduce your demand on others.

Stand up for a principle.
Express gratitude.

Overcome an old fear.

Appreciate the beauty of nature.

Tell people who are special to you that you love them.

Don’t stop there, find something nice to say about

everyone you come in contact with or even

think about. 

  – Author Unknown – 

The Challenge

Let others lead small lives, but not you.

Let others argue over small things, but not you. 

Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. 

Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

-          Jim Rohn –

Successful Planning

Chance favors the prepared mind.    Pasteur

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.   U.S. Marines

Plan your work and work your plan.   U.S. Army  

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.   Darrel Royal, football coach

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.  Bobby Night, basketball coach

First I will be prepared, then my chance will come.  – Author Unknown – 

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon…must inevitably come to pass!”   - Paul J. Meyer –

“You become what you think about.”   - Earl Nightingale – 

“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”   - Wayne Dyer –  

“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”   - Napoleon Hill – 

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.  It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”   - John D. Rockefeller –