Some of Suzette's Favorite Quotes
Oct. 2010 -Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habit; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~Unknown
Nov. 2010- "Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something." ~Andy Stanley
Dec. 2010 “GRATITUDE unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough .. . . and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, Confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, A stranger into a friend. Gratitude" ~Unknown
Jan 2011- “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in the movement there is life, and in change there is power”. ~Alan Cohen
Feb. 2011- "I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather you walk with me than merely point the way; The eye is a more ready pupil than ever was the ear; Good advice is often confusing but example is always clear." - Guy Doud
March 2011- There are two primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Denis Waitley
April 2011 - "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those (everyone) who listen." ~The Bible
May 2011 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; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
Summer 2011 Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
Fall 2011 “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobbs (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005)
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. ~Unknown
Life has no dress rehersals, only performances. ~Unknown
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
Something's wrong here. This is the first time I haven't gotten my way. I need to go lay down.
~Galinda-Wicked
Habits. . .the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. We allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. -Juliene Berk
"Our Deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Playing small doesn't serve the world. We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us and as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
"Every man dies, but only a few of them ever get the chance to really live." - Braveheart
"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."
- Cecil Beaton
"No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement." ~Unkown
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo Da Vinci
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life... and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
That which you persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed, but that your ability to do it has increased!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over." Warren Buffett
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish, and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it." --Lee Iococca
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." Albert Einstein
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. - Will Rogers
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. Marcus Aurelius
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.
The Bible (ICor.2:9)
Nov. 2010- "Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something." ~Andy Stanley
Dec. 2010 “GRATITUDE unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough .. . . and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, Confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, A stranger into a friend. Gratitude" ~Unknown
Jan 2011- “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in the movement there is life, and in change there is power”. ~Alan Cohen
Feb. 2011- "I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather you walk with me than merely point the way; The eye is a more ready pupil than ever was the ear; Good advice is often confusing but example is always clear." - Guy Doud
March 2011- There are two primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Denis Waitley
April 2011 - "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those (everyone) who listen." ~The Bible
May 2011 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; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
Summer 2011 Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
Fall 2011 “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobbs (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005)
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. ~Unknown
Life has no dress rehersals, only performances. ~Unknown
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
Something's wrong here. This is the first time I haven't gotten my way. I need to go lay down.
~Galinda-Wicked
Habits. . .the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. We allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. -Juliene Berk
"Our Deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Playing small doesn't serve the world. We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us and as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
"Every man dies, but only a few of them ever get the chance to really live." - Braveheart
"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."
- Cecil Beaton
"No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement." ~Unkown
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo Da Vinci
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life... and that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
That which you persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed, but that your ability to do it has increased!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over." Warren Buffett
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish, and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it." --Lee Iococca
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." Albert Einstein
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. - Will Rogers
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. Marcus Aurelius
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.
The Bible (ICor.2:9)
