Daily (ish) or maybe weekly (ish) inspiration

[RickyRaj]

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it." - Alistair Cooke, journalist

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." - Leonardo da Vinci, inventor

[SOLACE]

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[RickyRaj]

An inspiring story.

http://news.investors.com/management-le ... htm?p=full

[SOLACE]

The world's toughest job, each and everyone of these people doing this job all over the world are without doubt truly and wholly inspirational.... May they all be blessed


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3xM93rXbY

[RickyRaj]

"In order to carry a positive action, we must develop a positive vision" - Dalai Lama, spiritual leader

"A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one" - Chuck Norris, martial artist and actor

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it" - Norman Schwarzkopf, general

[RickyRaj]

"Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good." Carolina Herrera, designer

"Life’s like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." Jim Henson, puppeteer

"I don’t have to be smarter than anybody else. I’ve just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else." Graham Hawkes, submarine designer

[SOLACE]

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

[RickyRaj]

"There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."Nelson Mandela, South African president

"Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi, football coach

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity." Amelia Earhart, pilot

[SOLACE]

There was a business executive who was deep in debt and could see no way out.

Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said.

After listening to the executive’s woes, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.”

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can p*y me back at that time.”

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

“I can erase my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

“I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s always escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller.”

And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he’d been wheeling and dealing, b*ying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him.

Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.



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[Diane65]

Thank you Rickyraj and Solace for your truly inspirational posts and as you say life is what you make it. I love reading this and it really does make me think that it really is our attitude to situations that is the key to how we live.
A big thanks to 2 inspirational gentlemen