Ability, Motivation, and Attitude!

B E Great...Again!

"You had

the potential

to be great.

And what you don't get,

is that you still have

the potential to be great."

-Chris Powell, Fitness Trainer

Inspiration

 is shared

from the heart.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

As individuals think and believe, so they are.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

~Claude Bristol

“To have the rewards

 that very few have, 

do the things

 that very few people 

are willing to do.” 

~ Robin Sharma

A Happy Attitude!

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

— Hugh Downs

Happiness Enjoyed!

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,  

not because they never found it, 

but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it."

-William Feather

Just ASK for What You Want!

If you don't go after what you want, 

you'll never have it. 

If you don't ask, 

the answer is always no. 

If you don't step forward, 

you're always in the same place. 

~ Nora Roberts

Accept Yourself!

When you know yourself you are empowered.

When you accept yourself you are 

invincible. 

(Multi-colored meteorite)

~ Tina Lifford

SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Don't wait for others to empower you.  If you know what you are doing, claim it and move forward.  Permission, from others, not required.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

*If this sounds like something you have experienced, please share below...

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

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

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

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  

Gratefully content...

“There was a man who was complaining about having no shoes 

until he saw a man with no feet” 

~Persian proverb

Our only regrets...

“The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy 

and envy.”

~ Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.

Learn more here:  http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer