It's best to live life as it comes, that we don't have too many...if any, regrets at all.
Since I love life, I didn't want to be in a position when I was in my 90's stating, "I wish I would have done this, but I didn't do {fill in the blank}" It is important to make decisions proactively, live life to it's fullest and remember that life is short. So every day above ground is a great one!
For some, joy is found in the getting, however for the rest of us, it is the lessons learned along the way. While many meet acquantances with little effort, mastery comes from building, nurturing and sustaining relationships that create a momentum of success. It is a fool's game and easy to break something that works. However there is much more integrity and authentic satsifaction in life that comes from a goal reached, or in a relationship that is built, achieved, sustained and improved upon over time.
Like a fine time piece many may rely on and admire its precision until one day, when it doesn't work. The beautiful masterpiece that was working so well, is now missed. Who picks up the pieces? Will someone feel defeated, give in to apathy, or rise above the situation? Change, seen as something temporary, creates energy to champion the cause and make it better!
Here are a few quotes that capture this life essence. There are goals, however it's the journey that offers valuable lessons to learn and creates great memories of shared accomplishments. Make your dreams come true through authenticity, each step through your life's path. Remember...Carpe Diem!
--VaNessa Vollmer
View from Kearsarge Pass, CA Gilbert Lake, CA
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. --Chinese proverb
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. --Ralph Blum
This is not a dress rehersal. This is It. --Tom Cunningham
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.
--John Greenleaf Whittier
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. --Anon.
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead. --Anon.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. --Brendan Francis
Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from today. --John Wayne
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. --L.G. Elliot
Nature gave men two ends--one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
--George R. Kirkpatrick
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which (s)he has overcome. --Booker T. Washington
Consultation Lake, CA
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. --ZigZiglar
Find a need and fill it. --Ruth Stafford Peale
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. --David Brinkley
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. --Phillip Adams
To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.
--Paul Cummings
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
--Arnold H. Glasgow
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
--Christopher Morely
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
--Charles M. Schwab
It doesn't make any difference whether what you face is something that affects your work, your personal relationships, your sense of security, your appraisal of self-worth, or your appearance--the way you think about your situation largely determines whether you will do anything about it and what you will do."
-- Dr. Arthur Freeman
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. --Jim Rohn
Red Rock Canyon, CA
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. --Nicholas Murray Butler
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure. --General Colin L. Powell
Nothing of worth or weight can be accomplished with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. --Isaac Barrow
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smaller acts. This is the secret of success. --Swami Sivananda
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited, they make a success of their lives. --Walter Chrysler
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done. --Arland Gilbert
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. --Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Jacobs Ladder on John Muir's Trail, CA
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. --B.C. Forbes
To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live life without being born. --A.P. Gouthey
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. --Pietro Metastasio
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. --William J. Bryan
One can go a long way, after one is tired. --French Proverb
In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.
--Cy Young
If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.
-- Clint Eastwood
Don't leave before the miracle happens! --Anon.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. --Yiddish Proverb
Effort only releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. --Napoleon Hill
Big Island, Hawaii
He that would have fruit must climb the tree. --Thomas Fuller
Innovate! Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them. --Curtis Grant
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
--William Feather
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. --John Hays Hubbard
Large streams from little mountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow.
--David Everett
Life happens at the level of events, not words. --Alfred Adler
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
--Edward A. Strecker
El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite, CA
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. --Bliss Carman
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excells in his actions. --Confucius
Even a small star shines in the darkness. --Finnish proverb
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. --Elbert Hubbard
The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work. --A.T. Mercier
You will grow the most in your areas of greatest strength. --Marcus Buckingham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
--W. Somerset Maugham
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. --Louis Pasteur
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneruial types almost never accept defeat. -- Lisa M. Amos
