Quotes(27-03-2012)

"When you don't wait, you strive; when you don't trust, you worry. When you trust and wait, you rest."

-- Josh McDowell

"If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm."

-- Liz Smith

""Relationship before opportunity" is about giving before receiving, planting before harvesting, and serving before asking."

-- Jeremie Kubicek

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time."

-- Samuel Smiles

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

-- Benjamin Spock

"As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters
never point in the wrong direction."

-- Irish blessing

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is
to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

-- Harry S. Truman

"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's
the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You
stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark
into the light."

-- Jodi Picoult

"Almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

-- Steve Jobs

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

-- English Proverb

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Growing into your future with health and grace and beauty
doesn't have to take all your time. It rather requires a
dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and
precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as
equally so, which it is."

-- Victoria Moran

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just
baggage enough."

-- Charles Dudley Warner

"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got."

-- Jim Rohn

"Time is neutral, but can be made the ally of those who will seize it and use it to the full."

-- Winston Churchill

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

-- Erich Fromm

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

-- Elbert Hubbard

"You must look into people, as well as at them."

-- Lord Chesterfield

"Forever is composed of nows."

-- Emily Dickinson

"My Life is My Message."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

Quotes(26-03-2012)

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
-- Latin Proverb
"The greatest way to never chase your dream is to spend your time hating somebody else's dream."
-- Jon Acuff "A goal is a dream with a deadline."
-- Napoleon Hill
"You just have to keep on breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise and who knows what the tide will bring."
-- Cast Away "If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
-- Booker T. Washington
"Laughter is a part of the human survival kit."
-- David Nathan
"Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks youare perfect. There is some work that will never be done if youdon't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you weregone. There is a place that you alone can fill."
-- Jacob Braude
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
-- Woody Allen "Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations."
-- Ryunosuke Satoro
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."
-- Christina Baldwin
"May you LIVE all the days of your life."
-- Jonathan Swift
"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."
-- Konrad Adenauer

Types of people on the way they respond to confrontation as per John C Maxwell

Types of people on the way they respond to confrontation:-

BYE
SPY
FRY
LIE
CRY
SIGH
FLY

All Extracted from the book:”Be a People’s Person” by John C Maxwell

10 Tips for giving Criticism by John C Maxwell

10 Tips for giving Criticism:-

Check your motive
Make sure the issue is worthy of criticism
Be specific
Don’t undermine the person’s self confidence
Don’t compare one person with another
Be creative or don’t confront
Attack the problem not the person
Confront when the time is right
Look at yourself before looking to others
End confrontation with encouragement

All Extracted from the book:”Be a People’s Person” by John C Maxwell

10 Tips for taking Criticism by John C Maxwell

10 Tips for taking Criticism:-

Understand the difference between constructive and destructive criticism
Don’t take yourself too seriously
Look beyond the criticism and see the critic
Watch your own attitude towards the critic
Realize that good people are criticized
Keep physically and spiritually in shape
Don’t just see the critic; see if there’s a crowd
Wait for the time to prove them wrong
Surround yourself with positive people
Concentrate on your mission—change your mistakes

All Extracted from the book:”Be a People’s Person” by John C Maxwell

Steps to avoid problems in relationships by John C Maxwell

Steps to avoid problems in relationships:-

Bring in principle persons involved in the conflict
Line up the facts
Never reprimand while angry
Be precise with the offense
Get the other person’s side of the story
Be sure you keep comprehensive records
Don’t harbor a grudge

All Extracted from the book:”Be a People’s Person” by John C Maxwell

Various Processes of Relationships as per John C Maxwell

Various Processes of Relationships:-

The honeymoon stage
Specific irritation
General discomfort
Try harder
Exhaustion
Separation

All Extracted from the book:”Be a People’s Person” by John C Maxwell

Personality Types as per John C Maxwell

Personality Types as per John C Maxwell:-

Sherman Tank
Space Cadet
Volcano
Thumb Sucker
Wet Blanket
Garbage Collector
The User

All Extracted from the book:”Be a People’s Person” by John C Maxwell

Some Quotations

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an
uncompleted task."

-- William James

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the
only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is
great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what
you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you
find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better
and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you
find it. Don't settle."

-- Steve Jobs

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."

-- Edward Everett Hale

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few."

-- Pythagoras

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece."

-- Ralph Charell

"If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't
talk about it, but do it. After you have done it, your friends
and enemies will talk about it."

-- George W. Blount

"Just one mental shift -- focusing on the abundance of your
environment--switches your psychological settings so that your
life automatically improves in many areas you may think are
unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith."

-- Martha Beck

"Hence it became evident that if man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small."

-- G.K. Chesterton

"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

-- Denis Waitley

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."

-- Booker T. Washington

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."

-- Vance Havner

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!"

-- George Elliston

"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.'"

-- Marianne Williamson

"If you learn anything... please learn to ask for help. It is a sign of wisdom and strength."

-- David Skorton, Cornell University President

"Life is full of endless possibilities."

-- Mettrie L.

"Little by little, one walks far."

-- Peruvian Proverb

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

"People will try to rain on your parade because they have no
parade of their own."

-- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good
ones."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to
take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he
thinks as he lives."

-- Vaughan Quinn

"Winners take imperfect action while losers are still
perfecting the plan."

-- Tony Robbins

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste
experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without
fear for newer and richer experience."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Carry laughter with you wherever you go."

-- Hugh Sidey

"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."

-- Anwar Sadat

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."

-- William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

--Author Unknown

"A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines
separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The
routine is exceptionally powerful."

-- Darren Hardy

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become
bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build
you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see
themselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"At 211 degrees, water is hot.
At 212 degrees, it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.
And steam can power a locomotive.
One extra degree...makes all the difference.
And, the one extra degree of effort in business and in life...separates the good from the great!"

-- SimpleTruths.com

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do
whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and
are willing to work with a power that is greater than
ourselves to do it."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those
you hold well."

-- Josh Billings

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

-- Brian Tracy

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

-- Marilyn Vos Savant