Each of us defines success in our own way...that is how it should be.
There are some universal truths, however, and we would like to share some with you.
We are all the sum total of our attitudes,
choices, and actions.
Believing that ATTITUDE plays the greatest single role in the development
of a successful person, Ka`u Hawaii.com is happy to provide these thoughts on Successful Living...
"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is
important that everyone is seen as equal before God.
I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better
Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become
a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example
to people. We have among us 475 souls - 30 families are Catholics and the rest are all Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs-all different religions. But they all come to our prayers."
"At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by how many
diplomas we have received, how much money we have made
or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by:
I was hungry and you gave me to eat.
I was naked and you clothed me.
I was homeless and you took me in.
Hungry not only for bread-but hungry for love.
Naked not only for clothing-but naked of human dignity and respect.
Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks-but homeless because of rejection"
Mother Teresa
"We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better
and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love."
Cesar Chavéz
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending
spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of
diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may
murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence
merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiplies
violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love can do that"
Martin Luther King
"When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won. There have
been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem
invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it,
ALWAYS."
Mahatma Gandhi
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners
who survive; the learned find themselves fully
equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
"IF IT IS TO BE...
...IT IS UP TO ME!
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
"IF YOU CONTINUE TO THINK LIKE YOU'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT...
YOU'LL CONTINUE TO GET WHAT YOU'VE ALWAYS GOT!"
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POOR AND BROKE...
Being broke is a temporary condition.
Being poor is a mental attitude.
There is no shame in being broke...but to accept being poor is to resign from life."
"LIFE IS A BANQUET...WHERE MOST OF US STARVE TO DEATH BECAUSE OF OUR NEGATIVE ATTITUDES"
The only way to make constructive change in your life is to start pushing the positive buttons...Recognize the obstacles, but delight in the opportunities.
"Stop taking financial
advice from broke people."
"I know the price of success:
dedication, hard work, and
an unremitting devotion to
the things you want to see happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover. -- Mark Twain
You'll never make it to second base if you try to keep one foot on first.
You'll never achieve the dream in your heart unless you take the big leap
and are willing to risk everything -- even failure -- on the attempt. If
it's what is right for you and you've prepared yourself as best you can,
the chances are excellent that you'll meet with success. -- Earl
Nightingale
If you succeed, you are controversial. If you are mediocre, no one pays any
attention. -- Bela Karoly
All human success is the result of a persistent commitment. -- Lou Holtz
We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts,
desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our
nature, or we descend to suffer and learn. -- J. Todd Ferrier
The major psychological motivation for procrastination is fear. This fear
takes three forms: the fear of failure, the fear of imperfection and the
fear of inferiority. – Denis Waitley
Six essential qualities that are key to success: sincerity, personal
integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom and charity. -- Anonymous
The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits
on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. -- Leland Kaiser
Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when
you know which half to believe. -- Anonymous
The new leader ….. is one who commits people to action, who converts
followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
We refer to this as transformative leadership. -- Warren Bennis and Burt
Nanus
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people
create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives,
passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between
the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. --
Michael Gerber
To see things in the seed, that is genius. -- Lao-Tzu
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare
When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it
seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriett
Beecher Stowe
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