Favorite Quotes for November 2006
"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
-- Channing Pollack
"No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes."
-- Napoleon Hill
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
-- Anna Freud
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
-- Marva Collins
"We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves."
-- Orison Swett Marden
"Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I’ll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I’ll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
-- Catherine Marshall
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching."
-- Tennessee Williams
"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."
-- Bernie S. Siegel