Great Throughts Treasury

"There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself."

"There's plenty of room at the top but not enough room to sit down."

"There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!"

"This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock, or an 'opportunity clock?"

"This is not to imply that we agree on everything because we don?t. Nor does it mean there are no arguments because there are. It does mean there is never any maliciousness or bitterness in our differences. It does mean each is willing to admit a mistake and apologize if he or she is wrong. It means we enjoy each other and love each other enough to put the other one first. We never part company or go to sleep without settling our differences and reaffirming our love. We?re both grateful that God has let us spend enough years together to develop a relationship and discover what real love is all about. Our prayer is that God will permit us to have many more years together before we start our walk though eternity?together."

"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward."

"Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute."

"Timid salesmen have skinny kids."

"To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E."

"Thomas Carlyle said: A great man shows his greatness in the way that someone is smaller. The value you give to people determines if you are a motivator or a manipulator of men. The motivation is to act together for mutual benefit. Manipulation is work together for my own benefit. There is a substantial difference. With the motivating everyone wins. With the manipulator only win himself."

"To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can?t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ?anything.? If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it."

"Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation."

"To become the winner you were born to be, you must plan to win, prepare for it and hope to get."

"Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow."

"To reach your full potential, you have to set goals that will stretch you. You must not be afraid of taking risks. You must learn to recognize opportunities and have the courage to pursue them. You have to make better choices that will provide better results. Finally, you need to avoid the negative influences of other people and surround yourself with successful people who will encourage you to pursue your dreams."

"True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her."

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

"True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain."

"Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you."

"U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things."

"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have."

"Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again."

"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That?s success."

"Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them."

"We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin thinkin which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes."

"We all prospect, and don?t even know we?re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you?re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs."

"We can alter our lives by altering our attitudes."

"We do not stop working and playing because we grow old, we grow old age when we stop work and play."

"We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning"

"We must not bury our talents, but invest them, spend them, pour them out. Then we will have even more."

"What you focus on the longest becomes the strongest. When you focus on problems, you will have more problems. When you focus on possibilities and solutions...you have more opportunities."

"What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination."

"What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind."

"We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone."

"When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires."

"When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner and you can bet your last nickel on it."

"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."

"When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not to put drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it."

"When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent."

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."

"When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do."

"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."

"When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they?ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don?t."

"When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated others."

"When you do more than what you are paid for, you will soon be paid more for what you do."

"When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them."

"When you do things the right way, you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear."

"When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born."

"When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you?re making a commitment and difference in that person?s life. Encouragement really does make a difference."

"When you focus only on money, or if you are in an economic situation that forces you to have to close the sale, instinctively you will press a lot or not think more than you need, adding pressure on yourself and increase your sense of anxiety ."