Packet # 2A  -  A Thought For Today:
 
1.         “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”                                                                         Zig Ziglar

2.         “A good example has twice the value of good advice.”

3.          “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”             General George S. Patton

4.         “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
                                Dev. For Grads, p. 94

5.         “A moment of choice is a moment of truth.”                                                       Stephen R. Covey

6.         “A SMILE is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!!”                                 (Ziggy Cartoon)

7.         “Are you bored with life?  Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your
            heart,    live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be
            yours.”                                                                                                      Dale Carnegie

8.         “As we learn to think win-win, we seek mutual benefit in all our interactions.  We start thinking
            in terms of other people, of society as a whole.  It profoundly affects what we see as ‘important’,
            how we spend our time, our response in the moment of choice, and the results we get in our
            lives.”
                                            Stephen R. Covey  -  Book:  First Things First, p. 213

9.         “Be someone who finds something good in each day---Then give it to others.”

10.         “Beauty is also to be found in a day’s work.”                                               Mamie Sypert Burns

11.         “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”                                Norman Vincent Peale

12.         “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 Jennings Bryan

13.        “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
                                                                        Richard L. Evans

14.         “Don’t tell me how hard you work.  Tell me how much you get done.”                      James Ling

15.         “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know.  Be willing to learn from them.”

16.         “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
                                       Theodore Roosevelt

17.         “Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”                                         Dale Carnegie

18.         “Happiness comes from what we are, not what we have.”                                   Richard G. Scott

19.         “Happiness is when what you say, what you do, and what you think are in harmony.”     Gandhi

20.         “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life
                by conscious endeavor.”                                                                              Henry David Thoreau

21.         “I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly
              honest who complained of bad luck.”                                                           Henry Ward Beecher

22.         “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
                                            Diane Sawyer

23.         “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

24.         “If you should not be forgotten,
               As soon as you’re dead and rotten,
               Either write things worth reading,
               Or do things worth the writing.”
                                                         Benjamin Franklin

25.         “It’s a greater accomplishment to be kind than to be brilliant.”
                                                        Joseph Telushkin, ‘Words That Hurt, p. 126

26.         “It’s important to count your blessings, but it’s more important to make them count!”
                                                                (Ziggy Cartoon)

27.         “It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.”
                                                                          W. Mitchell

28.         “It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.”                                    Sarah Bernhardt

29.         “It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.”
                                                                H. V. Prochnow

30.         “Never underestimate the value of 15 minutes.”

31.         “No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”
                         Charles Dickens

32.        “No rules for success will work if you don’t.”

33.         “Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden
              from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so
              that we may not lose courage.”                                                                            Albert Schweitzer

34.         “Peace comes from within, never seek it without.”                                                            Buddha

35.         “The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.”
                                        Stephen R. Covey

36.         “The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering,
                but in the development of the soul.”                                                         Alexander Solzhenitsyn

37.         “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are:  first, hard work; second,
              stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense.”                                                        Thomas Edison

38.         “Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than
                criticize.”

39.         “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are
                capable of becoming.”                                                                                                          Goethe

40.         “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
                                                             Albert Einstein

41.         “We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.”     Stephen R. Covey

42.         “Why aren’t you working?”      “I didn’t see you coming!”                                            (cartoon)