Great Quotes:

Great Quotes: "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth... will pause to say, here lived a
great street sweeper who did his job well.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
--Mother Teresa

"People are always blaming their circumstances
for what they are. I don’t believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this
world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want. And if they can’t
find them, they make them."
--George Bernard Shaw
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Top 11 Perseverance Quotes!

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” ~ Napoleon Hill

 #10

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” ~ Charles Kettering

 #9

“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 E. Allen

 #8

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.” ~ Alan Schoenfeld

 #7

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” ~ Albert Einstein

 #6

“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” ~ Brian Tracy

 #5

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.” ~ Unknown

 #4

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.” ~ Og Mandino

 #3

“Its not how hard you hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” ~ Rocky Balboa

 #2

“It’s hard to beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth

 #1

“The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.” ~ Seth Godin

Desire To Stand Out From The Crowd

"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from the Creator. Another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail."
—Og Mandino (1923-1996), American motivational author
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Desire Leads to Success
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"When he was still a boy, Og Mandino’s mother dropped dead in
their kitchen right in front of him. Og passed on college to join the
Army and became a bombardier pilot. After the war, he married and
had a daughter. He had trouble paying the bills with a young family,
sold insurance, and became an alcoholic. He destroyed his marriage,
traveled the country, and couldn’t hold down a job.
With his last thirty dollars in hand, he contemplated buying a
handgun in a Cleveland pawnshop he had passed and taking his own
life. Instead, he walked on and wound up in a local library. He sat
down and began reading self-help books and decided at that moment
to change his life.

He went to work as a salesman for W. Clement Stone, the author
of one of the self-help books he had read. He quickly rose through the
ranks and began writing for the company. Og’s mother had always told
him that he would be a great writer; this remained in his mind for many
years. Years later, Og began working as the editor for W. Clement Stone’s
new self-help magazine, Success Unlimited. The rest is known history. Og
penned a small book, The Greatest Salesman in the World, which went on
to sell many millions of copies in many languages.

Og became the most-read self-help author in the world. He penned
twenty-two books and has sold nearly forty million copies. His books
are easy to read and will motivate one to improve his life. I have read all
of his books. Unfortunately, Og passed away in the 1990s.

Og proves to us that success brews within each of us, that we can
turn on that intense-desire button when we are prepared to get serious
and stick with it. Og was convinced that he could be a great writer
one day because his mother realized that her son had a special talent
and made sure that thought was etched into Og’s mind. Later in life,
knowing he had a talent, Og came up with a very unique type of book
to communicate his self-help messages to the reader. When he was ready
to press his own intense-desire button, there was no stopping him"
C-2011 J. Carinci from the book AN ALL CONSUMING DESIRE TO SUCCEED
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My Success Affirmations

Today I am born anew. Today is the most important day of my life
because it represents the glorious and first day of my new life.
I now understand that I alone control my destiny, my success or my
failure in this wondrous world of opportunity. Am I now capable, too,
of greatness and fortune like those highly successful individuals I have
learned about? For now I truly understand that I can accomplish anything
I carefully program into my mind. Does not the immigrant cherish fully the
American opportunity, knowing they must succeed and that failure is not
an option in their newfound world? I will adopt a similar burning desire,
and I will excel.
 
I am born anew. For now I realize that I am the greatest miracle in the
world, unique to anyone ever born. No longer will I count the obstacles and
drawbacks in my life. I now realize that, like the inventor who welcomes
each new failure on the road to victory, so, too, shall I. For now I understand that each failure only brings me closer to the success I know will be mine.
 
Never again will I allow self-pity, doubt, or negativity to penetrate my
new power-mind, protected by a new negativity-shield, for now I realize
that 80 percent of all talk and actions around me will be negative. I now
realize that negativity has been around since the caveman, and yet successful people always prevailed. I, too, shall prevail. I, too, will stand out from the crowd. I am a king and the world is my new kingdom, for now I realize that the knowledge I possess is worth more than all the riches of the world.
 
Today I possess an immense knowledge of how to change my life forever.
It is a true celebration indeed because now I realize that the best is yet to be.
 Just like the wind that graces the earth, never will I look back. Never will
 I revisit yesterday’s problems and heartaches. They are dead. I will always
look forward with a newfound, childlike excitement and energy.
 
Never again will I allow my life to be likened to a casino game of chance
because I now understand that I alone take full responsibility for my results
along the long road to success, and I vow to apply the principles I have
learned along the way. It is a joy to travel the long road to success. I will savor every step, enjoying the rough as well as the easy road I encounter.
 
Today and everyday forward I will welcome each new day as a blessing
from above, and I vow never again to squander such a precious gift, knowing that the richest king can never buy one more day of life. It is truly a gift from the Creator and shall never again be wasted.
 
Enthusiasm, I have learned, is contagious. And I know that if I project
an enthusiastic, positive attitude to all whom I encounter each day, they, too, will be enthused and will spread it to others. And like all wealth shared with love, it no doubt will inspire me all the more.
 
I realize that I have choices in life:
I can feel happy, or I can feel sad.
I can act positive, or I can act in a negative manner.
I can succeed greatly, or I can settle for failure as an end result.
I can love all others I encounter, or carry around baggage of doom and
gloom and aversion.
I choose to be different, to stand out and set an example that others will
admire and want to emulate.
 
This is my new life. I am like a newborn, pure in heart and mind from
prejudice, hatred, failure, or fear. And like a newborn, full of life and hope,
I now understand that I, too, am unspoiled now in my mind. I now possess
the great knowledge of the ages. For now I know that the mind controls
the body, and the subconscious controls the conscious. As long as I feed the
subconscious mind good, pure, and positive thoughts, the subconscious will
radiate like the rays of the sun, thus renewing, invigorating, and warming
me each day like the powerful rays of the sun. For this little-known secret of
my subconscious is now part of my life, part of my daily routine. And with
each new day that I take a breath of air, I, too, will begin it with positive
self-suggestion statements.
 
My newfound positive-attitude shield will protect me from the arrows
of negativity that kill off the spirit and drive off so many other people. I am
different; I am new. I will apply the newfound knowledge I possess.
No longer will that negativity seep into my mind. I will not allow
negativity to affect the computer-mind God gave me. I was born to be great.
Greatness is my destiny.
 
From this day forward I will never again worry, for now I know that 92
percent of all worry is useless, self-defeating, and draining.
Like the seasons that change, I now understand that my emotions, too,
change, and though I may not feel as happy one day, I know that in a day or
two I could possibly be ecstatic. Like the cycles of the world, emotions change, and now my newfound knowledge is power I will be able to use.
 
With love in my eyes and heart, I will greet everyone I meet with sincere
kindness. For now I understand that love alone will soften the coldest hearts of enemies and friends alike. And if I am to help others along the road to success, I must set an example of pure love and inspiration for all to follow.
 
My new attitude will be my shield that will protect me from the dreaded
arrows of negativity that kill off the spirit and drive off so many others. I am
now different; I am new; I am driven.
 
And as someone who loves himself, I now vow to allow only good things
to enter my mind and body, and to eliminate anything harmful from
affecting me. I will ignore the surrounding negativity and indulgences that
can harm this masterpiece-body that I have been born with. I now know
that I am the greatest work of art in the world, a masterpiece that no money
can ever duplicate.
 
I now vow that each new day will be carefully unwrapped and savored
for the precious gift it represents. And in the end, I will know that I have
made my Creator proud of what I have accomplished, and I will be able to
look back, knowing that I have set a truly inspiring example and have made
a lasting, positive difference in this great world of ours.

 

C-2011 John Paul Carinci from the book : An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed

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"Greatest living miracle in the world!"

"You are the greatest living miracle in the world!" (from my book)
No one else in the world has your exact eyes, hair, fingerprints, personality, or DNA. The odds of your being born into the specific person and personality you are have been estimated at one in 225 billion.
You are the most unique person in the world.

By the age of seventy, the average human heart will have beaten twoand-a-half billion times. Your heart pumps over fifty-seven thousand gallons of blood every month. The heart is an amazing organ! There are people alive today who have lived 115 years—you do the math....
Suffice it to say that we are each a phenomenal working mechanism that still
cannot be duplicated.

No matter what our financial status at this particular moment, whether we have fifty cents to our name or $50 million, each one of us is an equally great miracle in the world.

We all may say we are special, but do you believe it with all your heart?

You are the greatest living miracle in the world. Once you realize this, you will begin to appreciate just how very special you really are.

Your eyes, if we could place value on them alone, are worth at least a billion dollars to a person who can’t see. Your hearing ability and your ability to stand up and walk are awesome blessings.

The question is, are you acting like the greatest living miracle in the world?
Each of us was created by God. A true miracle took place in those nine months of gestation in order for you to be born. Now think about the following question very carefully:

If God presented Himself to you right now, and He just stared at you without saying a word, just studying you for a few precious seconds, would you feel proud about your accomplishments thus far in life?

Would you feel that you have used the miracle of your life to the best of your ability, or would you feel that you have cheated God, slightly or drastically, in return for the miracle He allowed to be performed through your birth?

What if, just possibly, we do live on in a special afterlife? What if we are left to reflect upon our lives in minute detail, second after second, and we must ponder this life for eternity? I don’t know about you, but I already want to accomplish much more. You see, I do believe there is an afterlife. I also believe that all your relatives, friends, and acquaintances who have passed on to this afterlife are observing you, rooting for you,
and anxiously waiting for you to achieve greatness.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST LIVING MIRACLE IN THIS WORLD! Don't ever forget that!

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You don’t have to be brilliant to have brilliant ideas and outcomes

At the age of nineteen, a Russian, Igor Sikorsky, almost had a working model of the first helicopter. By the age of forty-nine in 1940, Sikorsky’s successful VS-300 became a model that others based theirs on, and Sikorsky was considered the father of the helicopter.

At the age of thirty-seven, Mary Anderson had the first patent for a windshield wiper. Her goal was to clean snow, rain, and dirt off car windshields years before Henry Ford’s Model T automobiles were in production. On a visit to New York City in 1902, Anderson got the windshield-wiper idea while on a trolley car whose front window could not be kept closed because sleet made it impossible to see through it. 

In 1829, at the age of thirty-seven, William Austin Burt invented the typographer, the predecessor to the typewriter. He worked at that  time in the Michigan territorial legislature and later became a county Circuit Court Judge.  

A fifteen-year-old grammar-school dropout from Maine invented an important and useful item. In 1873, while he was ice-skating with a new pair of skates, Chester Greenwood’s ears were very cold. He went home and asked his grandmother to sew some fur onto wire shaped in the form of ears and attached to a metal band. Thus, the first set of earmuffs! The rest is history. Greenwood would ultimately establish a factory and produce earmuffs of a style still in use today.  

Was Chester the most book-smart child of his day? No. But Chester was driven to greatness by dissatisfaction. He was dissatisfied by his present situation and was motivated to the action of changing it for the better. Initially, Chester probably had no intention of becoming an inventor whom the world would notice and recognize for something quite useful. Chester merely wanted to keep his ears from freezing.  

Many other people before 1873 had freezing ears, but they did not have the foresight and drive to work at the problem without stopping until they fixed it.  

We each have the ability to excel. We can be great, and we can each be driven to fix a problem, right a wrong, or invent the seemingly impossible invention. Our mind can handle anything that is requested of it. But do we want something so badly that we will not stop until its completion?
 
Will we be driven so intensely that we think about it endlessly?

Let’s each learn to develop that powerful drive, that positive mental attitude needed to succeed.

Do you want it badly enough? Because, you know, you have wanted something badly enough in your past that you refused to give in until you achieved success. It’s all in the programming

of that inner mind, that subconscious mind, that works magic whenever it is impressed strongly enough by the importance of a special goal.

Is There Gold at the Foot of the Rainbow?

I didn’t know enough to quit. I was a dreamer who believed in the gold

at the foot of the rainbow. I dared to go where wise ones feared to tread.

—King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), Inventor

The gold at the foot of the rainbow—what a great analogy. The great inventors and highly successful have the ability to focus on the gold at the foot of the rainbow. They have vision. They have fortitude. They keep their minds focused on the finish line, not on all the obstacles

they encounter along the long, winding, and bumpy road to that finish line. The bumps and failures don’t even faze the tremendously driven person. The failure is almost welcomed because the successful thinker knows in his heart that he will achieve success—it is only a matter of time.

So, throw whatever distractions and obstacles you can at me, because I will prevail.

 

From the book: An All Consuming Desire To Succeed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights From John's Book: "The Power Of Being Different"
"The first step in bringing about positive change is to admit that you want to change. Be specific about what you want to change. Will power is a tremendous tool. Once a person bec...omes determined to do something, and blocks out all external negative thoughts, that person usually succeeds in his or her desired goal.”

"People who are nonchalant about life are insulting their parents, who may have scrimped and saved, worked extra jobs to put them through school.”

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. --Thomas Jefferson”

"The secret to change is, first, to tell yourself that you want to change. Tell yourself every day you want to improve something in your life. Work on small goals that lead to your greater goals.”

"We have it in our power to convince anyone to do what we want them to do as long as we believe without a doubt that it is in his or her best interest to do it.”

"They buy only because I disturb them.”

"William Patterson: Energy and time are precious, limited entities. Therefore, you need to use them wisely, focusing on what is truly important."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. --Vince Lombardi Football Coach (1913-1970)”

“There are two days in every week about which we should not worry - two days which should be kept free from an apprehension. One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, its faults and blunders. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said; yesterday is gone! The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. Tomorrow also is beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow’s sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise! Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn. That leaves only one day - today.”

"When you are successful, people will notice the difference.."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. --Henry David Thoreau Author/Naturalist (1817-1862) Be Different”

"John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

"Do more than exist, live. Do more than touch, feel. Do more than look, observe. Do more than read, absorb. Do more than hear, listen. Do more than think, ponder. Do more than talk, say something. --John H. Rhoades Edgar Allan Poet/Philosopher”

"Today is the only day to live, to dream, and to act. The present time is all you have as your “guaranteed time.” You need to say to yourself, “I cannot allow my dreams and goals to lie dormant inside me. From this day forward, I will write down all the things I want to accomplish. I must plan and set into motion the actions that will accomplish my great goals.”

"You can excel at anything, but you must be willing to make the tough choices, and put forth the extra effort.”

"The secret to change is, first, to tell yourself that you want to change. Tell yourself every day you want to improve something in your life. Work on small goals that lead to your greater goals.”
C-2005 John Paul Carinci
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TIDBITS FROM THE BOOK: The Power Of Being Different

 

Consider the importance of a 15-minute block of time a day to do something meaningful for yourself. Those “extra” 15 minutes a day would amount to 105 minutes, or 1 3/4 hours a week. If you continue squeezing out those 15 minutes a day, they would equal more than 7 hours a month and more than 91 hours a year. What could you accomplish with your “extra” 91 hours per year?

The first step in bringing about positive change is to admit that you want to change. Be specific about what you want to change. Will power is a tremendous tool. Once a person becomes determined to do something, and blocks out all external negative thoughts, that person usually succeeds in his or her desired goal.

We have it in our power to convince anyone to do what we want them to do as long as we believe without a doubt that it is in his or her best interest to do it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. --Henry David Thoreau

Your common sense will tell you all the reasons you cannot do something and all those reasons are likely true. But then you have to stop to realize your brain has something greater than common sense. We are each born with creative imagination.

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 30th President of the United States (1923-1929)

John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader

You can achieve greatness. You must be willing to pay the price to attain such success. What do you want? What is the burning desire deep inside you? When you get very serious about achieving a goal, write it down, and plan how to attain it. The burning desire starts to become more real, and an all-important drive to accomplish that goal takes over. Be careful not to turn all your wants and small

C-John Paul Carinci

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*Persistence Can Be An Inspiration* (I'm Writing Book #8 now)Never Give Up!
"I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in
defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.
I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by m...y
shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to
walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear
not those who weep and complain, for their
disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed."
--Og Mandino
"Even Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship, was ridiculed and thought to be a fool by the people of his day.
This excerpt appeared in Insight: “Here’s an extract from a notebook of Robert Fulton, who invented the steamship, who changed ships forever from sail to steam on the oceans of the world. He wrote, ‘As I had the occasion daily to pass to and from the shipyard where my boat was in progress, I often loitered near the groups of strangers and heard various remarks as to the object of the new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculations of losses or expenditures; the dull repetition of
“Fulton’s Folly.” Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, a warm wish cross my path.’”

Emerson said, “To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Do you really think it was easier to excel a hundred or two hundred years ago or that people were easier to get along with? I don’t think so, not after reading Fulton’s notes.
I don’t think it’s ever been easy to succeed. We have some inventions that make our lives easier today now that we have the computer, cell phones, Internet, and other technological advances.

Although the technology is better today, you may still have to work hard to succeed and to accomplish a great goal.

Henry Ford, the pioneer of the Model T Ford, wanted his engineers to build an eight-cylinder engine, a V-8 engine. After studying the proposal, they thought it couldn’t be
done. Ford told them to forget about the fact that it couldn’t be built and get to work until it was done.
After six months, the engineers came back to Ford and told him they couldn’t do it. Ford told them to continue no matter how long it took, but do it. After six more months, they still could not build this engine and told Henry Ford that it was impossible. Ford ignored the word “impossible” and told them to get back to work on the eight cylinder engine and don’t stop until they’ve got it working.

The engineers did as they were told and came back with a phenomenal V-8 engine that made some of the Ford automobiles the hottest cars of the time. The V-8 is still in
use today.

Ford could have given up because experts in the field told him repeatedly his idea was impossible, yet Ford believed his idea was possible. He knew it wouldn’t be easy,
yet he repeatedly told them during their failures “I want it and I’ll have it.”
C-2012 John Paul Carinci (from My Book)
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“How To Remain Positive In The Face Of Evil” (from my book)

BOSTON reminds us of the World Trade Center act.

At 9:03 A.M., I saw the second plane in a precise angle purposely crash and disappear into the South Tower. I yelled for my wife, who was then taking her turn in the bathroom, to see what had happened. We heard about two more plane crashes that day: the Pentagon was hit at 9:43 A.M. and the downing of the passenger jet in Somerset County, PA, took place at 10:10 A.M. I had witnessed a tragic, historical event that changed America and the world. The security and safety Americans

had taken for granted disappeared in the fireballs of four planes that crashed in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.

I was thankful that I had no relatives who were lost in the World Trade Center attacks. Yet, I felt that a part of me died that day. My belief in mankind was shaken.

In the following days and weeks, New Yorkers and Americans experienced pain that seemed endless as the country witnessed the devastation of the attacks. Rescuers worked day after day in a painstaking search for all the victims.

The craziness of the world’s brutality had finally reached our streets and lives. How could it happen? Terrorism was never supposed to be this close to our homes. Bombs and terrorist acts had always been things that happened in far away places. I had only heard about violence in some other country, some other place, but I was not prepared to witness almost three thousand people dying in New York City.

How do you keep from having this horrific attack drain your energy and affect your emotions? How can you keep motivated to achieve positive action? How can you forge ahead? It is hard not to dwell on the uncertainty of future terrorist acts against Americans. How can we not be

consumed with worry and doubt?

You must first put your faith and trust in God, believing that good prevails over evil. You have to have faith in the government, the president, our elected officials, and our proven democracy. The 9/11 attack on our buildings and cities was the warning bell alerting us to protect our

democracy from those who hate democratic principles and ideals.

9/11 does not have to drive us to hate. If others hate America and perceive it as being too selfish, then this is the time for Americans to help other people in other countries in new ways. America needs to be that special light in the world that shows others that democracy is always a better choice, rather than terrorism, hatred, and all forms of tyranny.

9/11 is a reminder that we should live to do more each day because each day is a blessing not be taken lightly. Being alive means you have been given more time to accomplish more good things in your life. Your life multiplied by time equals greater accomplishments.

Remember the Parable of the Talents and the son that hid his talents so not to risk losing them? Meanwhile, his other brother multiplied his talents by using them. The lesson is that you have talents that should be used. I believe many people never use their talents to their fullest extent.

That means that there are billions of people in the world who are living lives below their potential. The great tragedy is that many don’t care. They get up, do some work, and go to sleep having done the minimum.

Imagine how much better the world would be if some of those billions of people started working to attain new goals for themselves and were driven to achieve greatness.

The whole world would improve as billions of people start to excel, discover new inventions, and make the entire A better place.

By using your talents and developing new skills, not only do you reap greatness, you can change the world and make it a better place.

“There comes a time in a man’s life when to

get where he has to go-if there are no doors

or windows-he walks through a wall.”

--Bernard Malamud

American Author

(1914-1986)

I believe that the victims of 9/11 and all of our friends and relatives who have passed on are looking down on you I believe in God and in the hereafter. I truly believe there is much more than this here-and-now, our flesh and bones, and our time we are given on earth. I believe our

time on earth is a test, and we get a score as to how well we have used our talents.

9/11 taught the whole nation about getting through grief and moving forward with a new determination to stand strong for freedom, democracy, and the noble goals of America. Americans had a choice -- to give in to the many heartless and cold-blooded killers holed

up throughout the world, or to take freedom, democracy, and the good things about America to other parts of the world.

You have choices in your life, too. You can be a follower or you can lead others with your creative imagination and example. You can be average or you can “be different” by attaining greater goals. You can be mediocre or you can attain greatness. I choose to be different in order to achieve greatness.

“Man’s happiness in life is the result of

man’s own effort and is neither the gift

of God nor a spontaneous natural product.”

--Ch’en Tu-hsiu

Chinese Editor

(1879-1942)

You are like the tree that is destined to grow tall, the bird that soars high, and the water that flows with new life to quench the thirst of others.

Your very birth was a fabulous miracle. You have the talents to do the extraordinary. By using your creative imagination, your life will become an outpouring of miracles that will help others.

Your opportunities abound. May you soar to greatness every day.

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KEEP IT ALL IN PERSPECTIVE

“Here is something that appeared in Harper’s Weekly: (from my book)
‘It’s a gloomy moment in the history of our country.
Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so
much grave and deep apprehension.
The domestic economic situation is ...in chaos. The
dollar is weak around the world. Prices are so high as to
be utterly impossible.
The political caldron seethes and bubbles with
uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud - dark
and silent upon the horizon. It’s a solemn moment. Of
our troubles, no man can see the end.’

Does that sound familiar? Well, that article was
written in October 1857, just four years before the
Civil War. There were poor crops, bank closures, social
problems, business failures and government debts.”
There will always be negative situations, events, and
attitudes surrounding you. The world and the people in it
are not perfect. Negatives can become “good” or “useful,”
if those negatives motivate you to change your negatives
into positive results and to accomplish something great.
Negativity always has to be kept in proper prospective.
Learning to overcome life’s problems and setbacks will
help you to reach a new greatness. Strive to be different and
greater than your setbacks.

Does the average person give in to defeat and negativity?
How can you be different? How can you be successful? Start
by minimizing the attention you give to worrying.
There’s a great saying: “Don’t sweat the small stuff,
and it’s all small stuff.”

Abundance of Opportunities
Consider, too, how times have improved over the
centuries. If you lived in the 1700s, it might take you three
days to go 300 miles. It’s no wonder that many people grew
up living and dying in the same general area where they
were born, having seldom traveled.
Ben Franklin was different. At the early age of
seventeen, he set out to find a life for himself. He left
Boston, his birthplace, and hitched aboard a ship headed to
New York, a very rough three-day trip in his day. Unable to
secure work, he moved on to Philadelphia, where he started
his new life.
Today, you can simply take a jet plane to a warm climate
within hours. It’s a better life by far than what life was like
two or three hundred years ago. Also, what we consider
toys today, were unthinkable fifty years ago. Today you can
buy your son or daughter a $1,000 computer toy. Some toy!
If you wanted to, you could drive a car from New York
to beautiful Florida. You have the freedom to travel. Nice
country, America, isn’t it?

You don’t have to ask permission to leave your home.
There is no immediate threat of attack from a foreign
country; no tanks are in our streets fighting a war. I imagine
this is the best time in the history of America when there
has been this much freedom and money so easy to come
by.

Today is a great time to be alive. You can go or do almost
anything you wish. I know people who quit their jobs and
take off for months to do whatever they want, while they
live off their savings.

You have the freedom and the opportunity to choose
to do whatever you wish, at anytime you wish to do it. Few
other countries in the world offer you as many opportunities
to be great and to excel as America does.
In 1915, you had to be rich to own an automobile. Now,
some families have four cars, most of which are fairly new.
We have food in such abundance in this country; so much
so that obesity is becoming a severe problem. There are fast
food restaurants providing meals for only ninety-nine cents.
Food is affordable.

With the abundance of opportunities around us, what
you do with your life is entirely up to you. Thousands of
people are risking their lives to cross the border illegally to
have the same opportunities we have.
So many obstacles have been moved out of the way
for you. As the Army states, you can “be all that you can
be,” but you need to acquire an all-consuming “desire” for
whatever you want. Your subconscious mind has the power
to do the rest to help your conscious mind carry forth its
goal.

So, learn to use your mind as a filter in a positive way.
All the great inventors have learned to do this. They had to
filter out all the negative comments, influences and defeatist
attitudes that surround them every day. Edison had to get
past the derision of others to perfect the light bulb. He could
have chosen to give up on his inventions and be an average
person, but would we have the electric light bulb today?
What are you capable of? Will your new accomplishments
influence others and maybe the whole world?"
C-J. Carinci from the book: The Power Of Being Different
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QUOTES TO MAKE YOU THINK:

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.” - William W. Purkey
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”― Mae West
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”― Elbert Hubbard
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”― Mahatma Gandhi
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”― Maya Angelou
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”― Bil Keane
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Excel In All You Do

Success is very subjective. We may each interpret what the definition

of success is for our own lives. Success may mean a promotion, a new

job, having a baby, or raising a family. Or to you it may mean becoming

the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. You will slowly gravitate toward

the level of what you most consistently desire in life. Carl Yastrzemski,

the great baseball player, said, “I think about baseball when I wake up in

the morning. I think about it all day, and I dream about it at night. The

only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.”

In Carl Yastrzemski’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech of 1989, he

said in part:

 "I can stand here—I can stand before you today and tell you honestly that

every day I put that Red Sox uniform on I gave 100 percent of myself for my

own. I treated it with dignity and respect in deference to our fans. A high

regard for my teammates, coaches and management. Anything less would

not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible."

Success Is Within Your Reach

 

Have you figured out what you truly want? Or are you just playing

with time, as if you had all the time in the world to decide and to

fight for what you will one day want? Goals. Dreams. Inspiration.

Success never comes to people with mere

fleeting dreams. Those who

are truly successful are very driven individuals who never, ever stop

thinking about and working at their dream or goal. Truly driven people

sometimes can’t sleep at night. They can’t. Their brains are working

furiously in overdrive, calculating, thinking, planning, and seeing their

vision happen in their minds. Driven people are not followers; they are

leaders marching to their own tune.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.—Napoleon Hill

Vince Lombardi, the world-renowned football coach, said it best

when he stated, “Winning is not a some-time thing; it’s an all-time

thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in

a while; you do them right all the time.”

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real

life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got

through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be

paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles

were my life.

Fr. Alfred D’Souza

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What Really Motivates You?

What Really Motivates You? John Paul Carinci

"If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side

of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can

survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul!

Robert Schuller

 

Motivation to do something is a powerful driving force. We

know that people have literally done the impossible because they were

motivated by some tremendous force. An example of a tremendous

driving force that becomes the motivation for non-wavering action is

the New York City Marathon. Some thirty-eight thousand marathon

runners are fortunate to be selected by a lottery system. Only those

selected are eligible to run in the marathon, which is made up of over

twenty-six miles of hills and valleys running through the five boroughs

of New York City.

So, if approximately forty thousand runners are allowed by lottery

to race, how many people request to run each year? In 2008, there

were over 105,000 entry forms submitted to the Road Runners Club.

I would assume most of the 105,000 entrants were prepared to run the

marathon. What type of commitment does it take to prepare for such

a grueling race of twenty-six-plus miles? How many weeks, months,

or years in advance must the runner practice and exercise for such a

long race?

 

I estimate that a runner would have to practice for at least a year

to build up the stamina needed for that distance. Regardless, the entire

105,000 runners requesting entrance were committed to practice and

work out and race in the historic marathon. What commitment and

drive! The ultimate goal of finishing the New York City Marathon was

enough to motivate the runners to get up early before work or to go out

late at night to run so many miles in preparation for a marathon that

they might or might not have the chance to run in.

Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.

Monk Hae Chang

 

What is the motivating force that drives someone to work so hard

for a far-off goal? Why do inventors try the impossible when striving to

invent something new? An inventor may fail thousands of times before

succeeding with a new invention. What sustains his faith in persevering

until he has succeeded? Why do some succeed while many more fail?

Well, the way I see it, those who experience repeated failure are often

unwilling to go the extra mile that the successful inventor is willing

to go. Let’s go back to the marathon race. In 2008, there were over

thirty-eight thousand actual runners allowed to race. Of the 38,835 at

the starting line, the vast majority—37,899 runners—actually finished

the 26.2-mile distance. That is commitment. The oldest runner was a

man of eighty-seven! He finished the race in eight hours and thirty-nine

seconds. Talk about motivation!

To dream anything you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the strength

of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength

of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits. That is the courage

to succeed.

—Bernard Edmonds, "
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