Sam's Happy Place

The power of imagination makes us infinite.—John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

—Epictetus

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.—George Herman “Babe” Ruth

Tough times never last, but tough people do.—Dr. Robert Schuller

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

—Ronald E. Osborn

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks—Winston Churchill

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.—Henry Van Dyke

Vacillating people seldom succeed. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching their decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!—Sasha Azevedo, Actress

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

—Michael Jordan

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.—Bill Cosby

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

—Roger Babson

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.—Vince Lombardi

A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.—Author Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.—Edith Wharton

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever—the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.—Vince Lombardi

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word “succeed” you find it simply means to follow through.—F.W. Nichol

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.—William Jennings Bryan

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. ACTION always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.—Frank Tibolt

Live out of your imagination, not your history.—Stephen R. Covey

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace ofmind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.—Peyton Conway March

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.—Author Unknown

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.—Zig Ziglar

I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become. Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.—Oprah Winfrey

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.—Harry Emerson Fosdick

(1878-1969, American minister)

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.—Denis Waitley

Author of The Psychology of Winning

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.—Helen Keller

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.—Anthony Robbins

Life is like a puzzle; hard to put together and easy to take apart.

—Kelsi Brooks, Age 13

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.—Lloyd Alexander

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.—Albert Einstein

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.—Bruce Barto

When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.

—Joseph Campbell

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important.—Lisa Hoffman

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.—Frank Kingdon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.—Dale Carnegie

If you change nothing about your daily routine, will you

ever achieve your goals and dreams?—Jason Gracia

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.—Albert Einstein

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.—Eric Butterworth

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become.

—Heraclitus

535-475 BC (approximately),

Philosopher and Author

If one advances confidenly in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.—Henry David Thoreau

You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.—William Adams

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.—Vernon Sanders Law

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.—Stephen R. Covey

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

—Robert Fritz

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.—Dr. Robert Anthony

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.—Norman Vincent Peale

Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.—Black Elk

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.”—Napolean Hill