I know that I have the ability to achieve my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself massive, immediate, intelligent, persistent, and consistent action towards its attainment. I here and now promise to render such action.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth, integrity and incredible value; therefore, I will engage in no transaction that does not benefit all whom it affects.
I succeed by attracting to myself the forces that are in harmony with my vision, and the partnership and cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others.
I eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, cynicism, anger, and competition by developing true love for myself and all humanity. I know that there is an unlimited supply of goodness in my universe and that a negative attitude towards others can never bring me success. I compel others to believe in me, because I believe in them and in myself.
This is my creed and my quest. To never stop climbing to the top, to always keep growing and moving forward, to always scale endless peaks of possibility and to fulfill my destiny. I KNOW that my spirit's sole purpose is for fuller expansion and expression -- that I am dying if not growing. Therefore, I learn, grow, and expand my comfort zone each and every day.
I believe in, and commit to progressive advancement, growth and improvement (P.A.G.I.).
I AM the power. I AM the magic. I AM unstoppable. I AM a winner. I promise to always be true to myself, because I AM a child of the creator and a master of my universe. I AM responsible for making a positive difference in the world and to the quality of life in it.
"We only do well the things we like doing." --Colette
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." --Dr. Bernie Siegel
"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty." --Dr. Martha Friedman
If you possibly can, stay out of debt: "Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." --Henrik Ibsen
"Be not made a beggar by banqueting on borrowing." --Bible, Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 18:13
"Who goeth a borrowing / Goeth a sorrowing." --Thomas Tusser
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." --George C. Scott
"Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." --Lillian Smith
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." --Confucius
Keep your cool: "When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." --Sappho
"Thar ain't no sense / In gittin' riled." --Bret Harte
"It usually takes two people to make one of them angry." --Laurence Peter
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
--Ellen Glasgow
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into
its nest."
--J.G. Holland
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."
--Henry Moore
"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?"
--Jill Robinson
"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn
one into the other."
--Douglas Everett
TEAMWORK
"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -- Stephen Covey
"You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit." -- Jim Rohn
"Light is the task where many share the toil."
-- Homer
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -- Helen Keller
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small
steps."
--Henry Ford
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand/Make the mighty
ocean, and the pleasant land."
--Julia Carney
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of
small things brought together."
--Vincent van Gogh
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain."
--Dolly Parton
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and
suddenly you are doing the impossible."
--Saint Francis of Assisi
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
--Moliere
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