Quotes Tagged "personal-development"

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? Allan Rufus.org

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

Even though our time in this life is temporary, if we live well enough, our legacy will last forever.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

First knowledge is the knowledge of God.

Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.

Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.

A whole new world exists when you begin to speak things into existence, especially when those words have double, triple and sometimes even quadruple meanings.

Once we push through the curtain of fear, we find our dreams on the other side.

The most significant attribute and personality trait someone can possess is constant renewal; the continual process of renewing our wisdom in our personal life and in the workplace. This quote is an excerpt from the speech I gave the Broward County, City and County Managers Association in 1994. The theme of the presentation was how to identify higher-quality applicants and employees currently working in the organization. The concept is simple; some constantly learn what’s new and keep up to date on innovations and technology, while most only learn and are diffused by the renewal group.

Consistent action breeds satisfaction or frustration; either one or both are key ingredients for growth.

Consistent action will yield satisfaction or frustration; either one or both are key ingredients for growth.