Words to live by....

Words are powerful.


Often the difference between a successful (wo)man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.
- Maxwell Maltz


To succeed in life you need to be three main things - original, innovative and creative.
- John Mamo


My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
- Og Mandino


Listening is a form of accepting.
- Stella Terill Mann


Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking things.- Marya Mannes


Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it."
- Diane Mariechild


Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine


Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.- Peter Marshall


One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.- Abraham Maslow


Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness - and fewer those who have never taken that chance. - André Maurois


One of the finest virtues is generosity - a quality characteristic of the person who thinks more highly of others than he does of himself.- D. Malcolm Maxwell


The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.- Benjamin Mays



You wouldn't worry so much about what someone else is thinking about you if you knew how seldom they do.- Dr. Phil McGraw's Father


Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.- Tim McMahon


One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.- Mother Meera


You must govern the clock, not be governed by it.- Golda Meir


If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.- Bernard Meltzer


We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.- Thomas Merton


Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.- Michelangelo


God always provides what we need, but we must be ready to open our eyes and see it.
- The Midrash


It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
- Molière


Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.- Alfred A. Montapert