Your character describes who you are to others...

“Winning is a habit.  Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs.  Watch your beliefs, they become your words.  Watch your words, they become your actions.  Watch your actions, they become your habits.  Watch your habits, they become your character.” 

~Vince Lombardi

The Early Years-

Lombardi was born in Brooklyn to Enrico "Harry" Lombardi and Matilda "Mattie" Izzo on June 11, 1913.  Harry's mother and father, Vincenzo and Michelina emigrated from Salerno, Italy. Mattie's father and mother, Anthony and Loretta, emigrated from an area several miles east of Salerno. Henry had three siblings and Matilda had twelve siblings. Vince would be the oldest of five children, Madeleine, Harold, Claire, and Joe. The entire Lombardi and Izzo clan settled in Sheepshead Bay.

Matilda's father, Anthony, opened up a barber shop in Sheepshead Bay prior to the turn of the century. At about the time of Lombardi's birth, Harry, and his brother, Eddie, opened a butcher shop in the Meatpacking District. Throughout the Great Depression, Harry's shop did well and his family prospered.  Lombardi grew up in an ethnically diverse, middle-class neighborhood. 

 To read more about this inspiring man, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi

Perseverance!

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done,

 and then we shall find the way.” 

~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

A Life in Brief

When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South. A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, enforce the laws of the United States, and end the secession.

More:  

http://millercenter.org/president/lincoln

A TRUTH MISUNDERSTOOD!

“ There is no worse lie than 

a truth misunderstood 

by those who hear it. ”

~ William James
(1842-1910)

William James was an original thinker in and between the disciplines of physiology, psychology and philosophy. His twelve-hundred page masterwork, The Principles of Psychology (1890), is a rich blend of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and personal reflection that has given us such ideas as “the stream of thought” and the baby's impression of the world “as one great blooming, buzzing confusion”

SuCCeSS vs. Value

"Try not to become a man of success, 
but rather 
try to become a man of value."

~ Albert Einstein

Time Line of Einstein's Life-

1879: Albert Einstein is born to Hermann Einstein (a featherbed

salesman) and his wife Pauline in Ulm, Germany.

1884: Around this time, Albert receives his first compass,

beginning his quest to investigate the natural world.

1889: At age 10, Albert sets into a program of self education and

reads as much about science as he can.

To continue reading the complete timeline, please visit:  http://www.sonic.net/~gralsto/einstein/timeline.html

More interesting reading found here:  http://www.westegg.com/einstein/#about

NEVER EXPLAIN!

Never explain. 

Your friends do not need it 

and your enemies will not believe it anyway. 

~Elbert Hubbard

(1856 - 1915)

On May 7, 1915 -  Alice and Elbert Hubbard perish after their ship, the RMS Lusitania, is torpedoed by the Germans and sinks off the coast of Ireland.

Watch video's, view pictures, and read more about this interesting man:  http://www.pbs.org/wned/elbert-hubbard/index.php

Be a Happy Optimist!

If 
people are happy 

nobody 
can drag them 
into a war.  

~Osho

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Ego and the mind

According to Osho, every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.  Otherwise man's innate being can flower in a move from the periphery to the center.

Osho views the mind, first and foremost, as a mechanism for survival; replicating behavioural strategies that have proven successful in the past. But the mind's appeal to the past, he said, deprives human beings of the ability to live authentically in the present, causing them to repress genuine emotions and to shut themselves off from joyful experiences that arise naturally when embracing the present moment: "The mind has no inherent capacity for joy. ... It only thinks about joy." The result is that people poison themselves with all manner of neuroses, jealousies and insecurities. He argued that psychological repression, often advocated by religious leaders, makes suppressed feelings re-emerge in another guise, and that sexual repression resulted in societies obsessed with sex. Instead of suppressing, people should trust and accept themselves unconditionally. This should not merely be understood intellectually, as the mind could only assimilate it as one more piece of information: instead meditation was needed.

Read more about Osho here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)

Are we really ever wasting time?

"Creativity is the residue 

of wasted time." 

~ Albert Einstein

Einstein's education was disrupted by his father's repeated failures at business. In 1894, after his company failed to get an important contract to electrify the city of Munich, Hermann Einstein moved to Milan, Italy, to work with a relative. Einstein was left at a boarding house in Munich and expected to finish his education. Alone, miserable, and 

repelled by the looming prospect of military duty when he turned 16, Einstein ran away six months later and landed on the doorstep of his surprised parents. His parents realized the enormous problems that he faced as a school dropout and draft dodger with no employable skills. His prospects did not look promising.

 Excerpt taken from this excellent website: http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408?page=2

What People Say vs. What People Do...

The older I get 

the less I listen to what people say 

and the more I look at what they do. 

~ Andrew Carnegie

FULL-TIME PHILANTHROPIST

When Carnegie retired from business in 1901, he set about in earnest to distribute his fortune. In addition to libraries, he provided hundreds of church organs to local communities.  Carnegie's wealth helped to establish numerous colleges, schools, nonprofit organizations and associations both in his adopted country, as well as in Scotland and throughout the globe. His most significant contribution, both in terms of money and in terms of enduring influence, was the establishment of several endowed trusts or institutions bearing his name.

By the time of his death in 1919, Andrew Carnegie had given away about $350 million, but the legacy of his generosity continues to unfold in the work of the trusts and institutions that he endowed.

Very interesting read!  Please continue to enjoy here:  http://carnegie.org/about-us/foundation-history/about-andrew-carnegie/

One step at a time... ;)

To get through the hardest journey 

we need take only one step at a time, 

but we must keep on stepping. 

~ Chinese Proverb

Create...a dream!

“Do you have a dream?  

If not, create one. 
Dreams are what keep us going.”

~Brent Hunter

 My real passion and main project is helping build bridges worldwide. This includes helping people find peace within themselves as well as building a bridge from war to peace in the 21st century: The Rainbow Bridge — The People’s Bridge — Humanity’s Bridge.

FIND OUT MORE HERE:  http://brenthunter.tv/

Faith...

“Faith sees a beautiful blossom

in a bulb,

a lovely garden

in a seed,

 and a giant oak

in an acorn.”

~William Arthur Ward 

Born and reared in Louisiana, Dr. Ward entered the United States Army as a private in 1942 and rose to the rank of captain. Part of his four years of military service was spent in the Philippines.

READ MORE HERE:  http://quotes-of-wisdom.eu/en/author/william-arthur-ward/biography

Your character is a gift to others!

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those 

who can do nothing for him. 

~ James D. Miles

Throw, complain, stumble, climb, or BUILD!

 “We can throw stones, complain about them,

 stumble on them,  climb over them,

 or build with them.” 

~William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward (1921–1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been published in such magazines as Reader's Digest, This Week, The Upper Room, Together, The Christian Advocate, The Adult Student, The Adult Teacher, The Christian Home, The Phi Delta Kappan, Science of Mind, The Methodist Layman, Sunshine, and Ideals.  Further information regarding William A. Ward, found here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Ward

YOUR in Control!

You don't need anyone else's permission to be happy. 

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is,

 but because you choose to see it as such. 

~ Ralph Marston

 "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

~Ralph Marston


FOR MORE INFORMATION AND MOTIVATION FROM "THE DAILY MOTIVATOR", please click here:  http://greatday.com/

What's better than good?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good;

be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 and died there in 1862, at the age of forty-four.

To continue reading, please visit:

 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/

HAPPINESS...is the KEY! GET THE KEY!

Success is not the key to happiness. 

Happiness is the key to success.

 If you love what you are doing, 

you will be successful. 

~ Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education. His father and maternal grandfather were ministers; both of his grandfathers were talented organists; many of his relatives were persons of scholarly attainments...

...Having decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer in 1905 began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. In 1913, having obtained his M.D. degree, he founded his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, but in 1917 he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war. Released in 1918, Schweitzer spent the next six years in Europe, preaching in his old church, giving lectures and concerts, taking medical courses, writing On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, The Decay and Restoration of Civilization, Civilization and Ethics, and Christianity and the Religions of the World.

ENJOY READING THE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY BY CLICKING HERE:  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1952/schweitzer-bio.html

Forgiveness = Freedom & Peace

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. 

Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

~Catherine Ponder

Ponder wrote her first prosperity book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity in the early 1960s whilst living in Birmingham, Alabama. Her life expanded dramatically whilst she was in the midst of finishing that book. She married and moved to the southwest, where her husband taught at the University of Texas. Much later, after her husband's death, her life changed again. In the early 1970s, another move took her to San Antonio, Texas. There she remarried and wrote a sequel to that earlier book, entitled Open Your Mind to Prosperity.

This is just an excerpt of her biography.  To read the complete version, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ponder

Time...

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

~ Andy Warhol   "I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked." – Andy Warhol Andy Warhol, born in Pittsburgh in 1928, was an American artist and filmmaker. He is the figure head of the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Warhol brought focus to the banality of the commercial culture of the United States - creating and then pushing the artist envelope of his time. He became a worldwide celebrity, befriending and doing business with people in the highest social ranks. READ HIS ENTIRE BIOGRAPHY HERE:  http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875

Learn from everything!

There is something to be learned 
from every experience, 
every challenge, 
every victory, 
and every defeat.  
Learn from everything.  

~Kim Franklin-Magana