Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

Life is not a game, even a game is not a game. Because most of the time game is the beginning of a series of games.
Let's say that you're on a soccer team. Winning a championship and winning a game are not the same thing. If you want to win a game the best thing to do is to let your star player make all the moves. But if you want to win a championship maybe the best thing is for your star player to do everything he or she possibly can to develop all the other team members. That's a different strategy and the reason it's different is because it iterates across time

Be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving sets up the situation where ideas can flow

What if they don't show up?

It takes self motivation to really alter your life. You don't want to give self motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else to motivate you. The guy says - boy if somebody just come by and turn me on... - what if they don't show up? See you got to have a better plan for your life.

All he needs is one, he's got five

Pessimism - the deadly disease - always looking on the bad side, the problem side, the difficult side, checking all the reasons why it can't be done. Poor pessimist leads an ugly life. He doesn't try to figure out what's right, he tries to figure out what's wrong. He doesn't look for virtue, he looks for faults and when he finds them he's delighted - how ugly?!
This is the poor guy looks through the window, doesn't see the sunset, he sees the specs on the window.
And this poor guy says - "I've got five good reasons why it won't work". He is so dumb he doesn't know all he needs is one he's got five