Deborah S. Podwika, M.A.
Kankakee Community College
Humanities and Social Science Division
Psychology Department - P.O. Box 888, River Road
Kankakee, IL 60901-0888
815.933.0283
Email:[email protected]
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Created: May 3, 1996
Format: Netscape 4.7
Revised: August 1, 2002
** My Favorite Quotes **
I love quotes! They inspire & motivate me so much. I hope reading
these will do the same for you.
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I'll let you know where I found the quote. If you are aware of a
misrepresentation please let me know!
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** ATTITUDE **
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
- Lucimar Santos de Lima
I have discovered that we are more alike than unalike as people.
- Maya Angelou
Attitude is a little thing that Makes a Big Difference.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitude. - William James
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein
Practice audacity in all things. - Brian Tracy
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the
ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh
at you. - Jim Rohn
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small
things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely. - Jim Rohn
** BEAUTY **
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
** CHANGE **
For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see
it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than
the creator of what is new and exciting. - Nido Qubein
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson
I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that
the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
- Jim Rohn
Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations
and the demands to perform are high. - Jim Rohn
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
** COMFORT ZONES **
Most people are seduced by the lure of the comfort zone. This can be
likened to going out of a warm house on a cold, windy morning. The
average person, when he feels the storm swirling outside his comfort
zone, rushes back inside where it's nice and warm. But not the true
leader. The true leader has the courage to step away from the familiar
and comfortable and to face the unknown with no guarantees of success.
It is this ability to "boldly go where no man has gone before" that
distinguishes you as a leader from the average person. This is the
example that you must set if you are to rise above the average. It is
this example that inspires and motivates other people to rise above
their previous levels of accomplishment as well. - Brian Tracy
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but
does not make any progress. - Alfred A. Montapert
A ship is safe in the port, but that is not what a ship is for.
- Unknown
** COURAGE **
You will be surrounded by temptations to compromise your values and your
vision. You will feel an almost irresistible urge to "get along by going
along." Your desire to earn the respect and cooperation of others can
easily lead to the abandonment of your principles, and here is where
courage comes in. - Brian Tracy
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
** DISCOVERY **
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going
off the main road; by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what
happens to you. - Aldous Huxley
There are jewels in the dirt, gifts in the mud, doorways we didn't
previously see. ~ Sark
Be a full vessel meeting another, instead of a starving, empty
vessel waiting to be filled. ~ Sark
Two Roads Diverged In A Wood, And I-I Took The One Less Traveled By, And
That Has Made All The Difference. - Robert Frost
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all
the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
- Jim Rohn
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around?
What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have
they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me
thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask
yourself the big question: Is that okay? - Jim Rohn
** CHALLENGE **
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity,
and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not
likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day
and every decade worth looking forward to. - Greg Anderson
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds. -Albert Einstein
** GOALS **
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of
our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus
and move us in a direction. The only reason we really
pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in
the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the
obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give
you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
** INTEGRITY **
We Make A Living by What We Get; We Make A Life By What We Give!
** MISTAKES **
It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake
knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake
after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake,
you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes
whenever you find them. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing
you will make one. - Elbert G. Hubbard
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given
to us to learn from. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
** PASSION **
Passion Is Powerful...Nothing Was Ever Achieved Without It, And Nothing
Can Take Its Place. No Matter What You Face In Life, If Your Passion Is
Great Enough, You Will Find The Strength To Succeed. Without Passion,
Life Has No Meaning. So Put Your Heat, Mind, And Soul Into Even Your
Smallest Acts...This Is The Essence Of Passion. This Is The Secret To
Life.
Use What Talents You Possess. The Woods Would Be Very Silent If No Birds
Sang There Except Those That Sang Best.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow we are not really
living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a
giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work,
values no longer believed in relationships that have lost their meaning.
As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what
people fear most". The real fear should be of the opposite course.
- Gail Sheehy
Every time we choose to do less than we could, this error in judgment
has an effect on our self-confidence. Repeated every day, we soon
find ourselves not only doing less than we should, but also being less
than we could. The accumulative effect of this error in judgment can
be devastating. - Jim Rohn
Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment
in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us.
When you're excited about something it's contagious. - Mark Victor Hansen
** PRIORITIES **
A Hundred Years From Now It Will Not Matter What My Bank Account Was,
The Sort Of House I Lived In, Or The Kind Of Car I Drove...But The World
May Be Different Because I Was Important In The Life Of A Child.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look
like they cannot be done. - Arnold Palmer
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build
a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your
enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they
require. - Jim Rohn
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage
-- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other
things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning
inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.' - Stephen Covey
** SUCCESS **
You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is, 'What do
you want?'- Mark Victor Hansen
Success is a Journey, NOT a Destination!
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path
And Leave A Trail.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the
beauty of their carvings. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being
understood. - Brian Tracy
Any day we choose we can develop a new discipline of doing rather than
neglecting. Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest,
we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-
confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves
that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what
we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of
doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts
human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into
actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.
- Jim Rohn
No matter how much you talk to your plant, if you don't water it, it's
going to die. - Mike Perry
** TEAMWORK **
Snowflakes Are One Of Nature's Most Fragile Things, But Just Look At What
They Can Do When They Stick Together!
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S Patton, Jr.
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