The Mars Venus and You Blog

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Calvin Coolidge

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Larry Elder

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.

Scott Reed

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Fitzhugh Dodson

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.

Willis Reed

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

The best way to change another person is to change yourself.

Wally Amos

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Audrey Hepburn

I'm going to stop procrastinating ... once I get around to it.

Anonymous

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.

Henry Ford

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

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

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Charles C. Noble

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Michael Leunig

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Unknown

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

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Winnie the Pooh

A t the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Doug Larson

Dance like no one is watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.

Unknown

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

Jim Rohn

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Dalai Lama

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love & inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile

Mark Twain

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Hugh Miller

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Albert Einstein

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

Brian Tracy

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli