The fact is that what you do does indeed come back to you. How could it not? When you genuinely love, you are loved. When you praise others, you are admired. When you teach, you learn. The comfort you give serves to ease your own pain.

When you put value into life it becomes the value you experience in your life. And every moment is your opportunity to do so. You are what you live. There’s no way to cheat the process. It all comes back to you. So use each moment, each golden opportunity to make it great.

Ralph Marston

Keep vigilant watch overy your heart; that’s where life starts.
Proverbs4:23

We would worry less about what others think of us
if we realized how seldom they do.
Ethel Barrett, writer

If you really believe you can do something,
obstacles can never make you give up.
But if you believe you cannot do it,
you will give up at the first sign of trouble.
Dare to believe that you can achieve God’s best and highest in your life.
Mary Kay Ash

Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world, it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison,
astronaut and first African american woman in space

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outward one small step at a time.
Audrey Hepburn, actress

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It’s in our hands.
Cathy Better, editor, writer and author.

There are people who have a lot, but who do nothing for others with what they have. And there are people who have little, but who are able to do much with what they have. Use what you have today,mand don’t worry about what you don’t have. God will make up the difference of what you lack, if you will just give Him what you can.
Joyce Meyer

And God who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your resources for sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity.
2 Corinthians 9:10

All the great works of the world has been accomplished by courage, and the world’s greatest victories have been born of defeat. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Mary Kay Ash

How many moments do you fail to enjoy simply because you don’t allow yourself to enjoy them? How many days do you go through without permitting yourself even a few minutes of pure and unrestrained joy?
Look at the people who are most effective at what they do, and you’ll find people who are enjoying themselves. Have you ever heard of anyone who became a spectacular success by being miserable? Probably not.

Enjoy life today, even though it is not perfect. The more you enjoy, the closer you’ll come to making your life into exactly what you want it to be. Enjoy your success not just after you’ve achieved it, but also while you’re working to bring it about. Enjoy where you’re going, not just where you’ve been. Enjoy the process of success, and you’ll have much more of it. Enjoy yourself each day, and those days will lead you to great things.

Ralph Marston

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny… ~ Maxwell Malt

Mother Theresa

Many times the things we fear most happen because we expect them to happen. Fortunately, the opposite also is true. When we expect great thngs, great things will happen! We are surrounded by abundance, and we can draw it to us by expecting it.
Mary Kay Ash

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation,
you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude,
a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner

Critics argue that a woman’s appearance is only superficial. When a woman changes from an uglyu duckling into a beautiful swan, something inside changes too. OUter beauty kindles her inner beauty.

Mary Kay Ash

If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.

Chinese Proverb

The real champions are the ones who vigorously act on their dreams and work, really work, toward their goals. Thomas Edison once said that genius is 2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration. However, work to a winner is never drudgery. Your enthusiasm for what you are doing will propel you forward.
Mary Kay Ash

What does it really matter if the task is difficult or complicated? If it needs to be done, it needs to be done. Difficult is mainly a matter of opinion, anyway. And you have the full and complete power to change your opinion.
When there is work that must be done, you can see it as a chore or you can see it as an opportunity to achieve excellence. You can fight against it or you can put the power of your effort and creativity into getting it done.

If you’re going to be doing it anyway, does it make any sense to torment yourself about it? Imagine how much more smoothly it would go if you could simply decide that it isn’t so bad after all.

Ironically, the willingness to undertake a difficult task makes it easier. The acceptance that things can be difficult makes them less difficult.

Is there something that needs to be done, something you’ve been putting off because it seemed so difficult? Imagine how great it would be to have it done. Imagine it, then start right in on it, willingly, cheerfully and with the highest of expectations. Not only will you make it easier, you’ll also make it happen.

Ralph Marston

There is a strong relationship between dreams that come true and the calluses on your hands. Your dreams will come true only if they have substance underscored by work.

Mary Kay Ash

The first step toward success is taken

when you refuse

to be a captive of the environment

in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

To keep a lamp burning

we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere and endure
in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

What you think of yourself is reflected in the way you treat others. A very effective way to raise your own level of confidence is by acting positively toward the people around you.

Rudeness toward others, whether intentional or not, is a sure sign of a lack of confidence. When you have no respect or consideration for others, it’s difficult to have much confidence in yourself.

Ironically, one of the worst things you can do for yourself is to think only of yourself. The more genuine respect, consideration and courtesy you express toward those around you, the more your own confidence will grow.

If someone is rude to you, make every effort to be sincerely pleasant and courteous in return. Just because someone else is allowing rudeness to drain away their own energy, doesn’t mean you must do the same.

Have the confidence to be courteous, and the confidence to act with genuine respect toward others. Your positive attitude and positive actions will empower you with even more confidence and energy.

Ralph Marston

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat
you as though you are what you are capable of becoming,
I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius,magic and power in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, theconclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

The years teach what the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will make more friends in a week
by getting yourself interested in
other people
than you can in a year
by trying to get other people interested in you.
Arnold Bennett

Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges,
remember that you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the
roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even sail across the
roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you will end
up in life. The most important thing is don’t let yourself get lost in the crowd.
Angela Duvall

The most reliable way of being in the right place at the right time is to prepare yourself for it. Great opportunities are everywhere, and the people who benefit the most from them are those who are the best prepared.
Preparation can be tedious and it’s not usually very exciting, yet the results it brings can be tremendously exciting. Being sufficiently prepared will open doors for you that you otherwise would never see.

The time and effort you spend learning, practicing, developing your skills and laying the groundwork for achievement may not pay off immediately. Yet those efforts spent in preparation will indeed pay off, and when they do, they’ll pay off in a big way.

Your time is never wasted when you spend it to become better prepared. Athletes win because of practice, and businesses succeed because of the skills their people have developed. Those who achieve do so because they have prepared themselves to achieve. There’s no better way to be genuinely confident than to know that you’re prepared.

Do your homework, lay the groundwork, build a solid foundation, be prepared, and become truly confident. When you’re prepared, great opportunities will virtually jump out at you and the best thing is, you’ll be ready for them.

Ralph Marston