Wisdom From The Wise...

The quality of your life will be determined in a large measure by the nature of your habits.

"We first make our habits then our habits make us."
-John Dryden.

"The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
-Virginia Woolf.

So ensure that you habits move you forward rather than hold you back.

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
-Publilius Cyrus.

Are you using the best within you to its fullest capacity? If not, you are not only doing yourself a disservice, you are doing the world, and all those within it who could benefit from your talents, a disservice.

Goals clarify our desires and, in doing so, help us to focus on only those activities that will lead us to what we want. Setting clearly defined goals provides you with a framework for smarter choices.

Goal setting helps you to stay alert to opportunities.

Setting clearly defined goals commits you to a course of action. They give you the inspiration to act on your priorities and make things happen in your life rather than waiting for opportunities to land in your lap (which rarely happens).

Selecting goals that engage and motivate you is one of the best ways to boost the level of your personal commitment to life and increase the energy you bring to your days. So set big goals.You are only as rich, whether materially or spiritually, as your dreams.

"Anyone can become angry-that's easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, in the right way, at the right time and for the right purpose- that is not easy."
-Aristotle.

"Its a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
-Somerset Maugham.

"The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us when we live."
-Norman Cousins.

"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
-Ashley Montagu.

"Despite all the difficulties, all the frustrations, there is a joy in having done something as good as you could and better than others thought you could."

-J.R.D. Tata

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."
-David Starr Jordan.

All too often,we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not by waiting. The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.


The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the reward but in the person you become as a result of achieving your goals.

Rather than savoring only the rewards that have flowed from the achievement of that goal, celebrate the fact that the process of reaching your goal has improved the person you are.

The things that are easy to do are also the things that are easy not to do.

"So long as you live, keep learning how to live."
-Roman philosopher Seneca.

How high you will rise in life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.The greatest leaders in this new economy will be the greatest thinkers.The person you will be 5 years from now will come down to two primary influences: the people you associate with and the books you read.

The irony of being more compassionate is that the very act of giving makes you feel better as well.

Getting up early is a gift you give to yourself. Few disciplines have the power to transform your life as does the habit of early rising. There is something very special about the first few hours of the morning. Time seems to slow down and a deep sense of peace fills the air. Joining the "Five O'clock Club" will allow you to start controlling your day rather than letting the day control you. Winning the "Battle of the Bed" and putting "Mind over Mattress" by rising early will provide you with at least one quiet hour for yourself during the most crucial part of the day: the beginning. If spent wisely, the rest of your day will unfold in a wonderful way.

To cultivate the habit of getting up earlier, the first thing to remember is that it is the quality of sleep that matters the most rather than the quantity of sleep.It is better to have 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep than having 10 hours of broken sleep.

Our character is shaped not through life's easiest experiences, but during life's toughest ones.It is during life's most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies between us.

LIVE deep and suck out all the marrow of life, live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that is not life.

To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things that you fear. Get good at becoming uncomfortable and stop taking the path of least resistance. Sure, there is a greater chance that you will stub your toes when you walk the road less traveled, but that is the only way you can reach to the top.

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
-Andre Gide.

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.Sure, you will meet with your share of failures if you start living more deliberately and passionately. But failure is nothing more than learning how to win. Its risky out on a limb but that's where all the fruit is.

Deeply fulfilled and highly actualized people simply make wiser choices than others. You can choose to spend the rest of your days sitting on the shore of life in complete safety or you can take some chances, dive deep into the water and discover the pearls that lie waiting for the person of true courage.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doers of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt.

The real secret of getting things done is knowing what things need to be left undone.

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
-Peter Drucker.

YOU have to stop waiting for other people to make the changes that you desire.Be the change that you want to see the most in this world.
-Mahatma Gandhi.

WE live on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies. How's that for a change in perspective?Given this information, are your problems really that big? We walk on this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, we are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.
-Stephen Hawking.

DISCIPLINE allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do but never feel like doing.

The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life is ultimately decided by the quality of choices and decisions that you make, ones that range from the career you choose to pursue to the books that you read, the time that you wake up every morning to the thoughts that you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life. Effective, fulfilled people do not spend their time doing what is most convenient and comfortable. They have the courage to listen to their heart and do the wise thing. This habit is what makes them great.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing that you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
-Thomas Henry Huxley.

Every second you dwell on the past, you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems, you take away from finding the solutions. And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things that you want to happen from entering into your life. Given the timeless truth that holds that you become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past mistakes unless you want to experience them for a second time.

Happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.

I would rather have the bravery to try something and then fail than never to have tried it at all.

IT is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.
-Herotodus.

I have learned that success is to be measured by not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington.

If your priorities dont get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will find their way into your planner.

Learning to say no to the non-essentials will give you more time to devote to the things that have the power to truly improve the way you live and help you leave the legacy, you know in your heart, you are destined to leave.

Organizing your life so that you get to do more of the things you love to do is one of the first steps to life improvement.

You are not here to merely make a living. You are her in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
-Woodrow Wilson.

Those who dont make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness.

The first step to realizing your life vision is defining it. And the first step to becoming the person you want to be is identifying the traits of the person you want to be.