Motivation Friday

Here are some good quotes to get you thinking about

Peace

A smile is the beginning of peace.
- Mother Teresa

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means bywhich we arrive at that goal. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

- Brian Tracy

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

- Abraham Lincoln

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

-- A.J. Muste.

"When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever."

-Augusta Stowe-Gullen

Motivation Friday!

Let's get a little reader involvement going on here, comment me on this post to suggest next weeks topic for Motivation Friday.

In honor of the Cattle Baron's Ball Jen and I are attending tonight at Cain's Ballroom a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, I have chosen the Motivation topic as Charity.

Charity

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

-Rabbi Hillel

The life of man consists not seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

-Confucius

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

-St. Francis of Assisi

Every good act is charity. A man's ture wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

-Moliere

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense.

-Emanual Swedenborg

Motivation Friday!

It's back! Sorry for the long MIA, it has been busy around here!

Motivation focus for today is STRENGTH

William Safire: Quotes on Strength

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Baltasar Gracian: Quotes on Strength

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Goethe: Quotes on Strength

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Elie Wiesel: Quotes on Strength

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Alexander Graham Bell: Quotes on Strength

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Blaine Lee: Quotes on Strength

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Motivation Friday

I am implementing Motivation Friday...I will try my best to keep this a weekly thing but we all know how busy life can be, so if I miss a week please don't pass any judgement, I am not perfect!!! Even though you may have thought I was!! LOL =)

So how does Motivation Friday work....well I am going to find a collection of quotes that helps remind us why we need to do what's best for ourselves, others, and the world.

Motivation focus for today is Weight Loss:

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

-Vincent Lombardi

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

-Plato

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

-Marvin Phillips

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

-Leigh Hunt

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

-Thomas Fuller

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

-Jim Rohn