Marriage Council and Motivational Talk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” —Laird Hamilton “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent van Gogh “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” —Maria Edgeworth “Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” —Unknown “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Raymond Joseph Teller “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” —Paul Bryant “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives...

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” — Arlan Hamilton “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Ariana Huffington “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle” – Ross Simmonds

“Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” — George Addair “The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston “You carry the passport to your own happiness.” —Diane von Furstenberg “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” —Drake “Ideation without execution is delusion.” — Robin Sharma

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” — Arlan Hamilton “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Ariana Huffington “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle” – Ross Simmonds

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Wayne Dyer “We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.” — Arthur Ashe “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates

“Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business” — Cindy Gallop “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke "Worry is a misuse of imagination." —Unknown “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou "I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now." —Edna Mode "A year from now you will wish you had started today." —Unknown "The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel." —Steve Furtick "Somewhere, something incredible is ...

“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain “If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown “The greater the difficulty...

“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ―Martha Graham “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson “Take your victorie...

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso “Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” —Angela Bassett “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” —Barbara Elaine Smith “If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” —Tobias Lütke

“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”—Kate Summers “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” —S. O’Sade “Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” —Nanea Hoffman “Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” —Byron Pulsifer “When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” —Catherine Pulsifer

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James “One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” — Edmond Mbiaka “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball "You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin." ―Gordon B. Hinckley “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius “Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“ – David Dweck “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.” – Germany Kent

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama “Opportunities don't happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — Gary Vaynerchuk “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” Mark Cuban “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan “Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.” — Vince Lombardi “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope

Funny motivational quote by Zig Ziglar “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” — Unknown “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — Winnie the Pooh “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart “You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” —John Graham “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” —Augustine Og Mandino

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." — Herman Melville "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." — Colin R. Davis “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." —Calvin Coolidge “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to...

Laughter, Itimacy and Passtion today, and Tomorrow, Forever Marriage therapist DeMaria and co-writer Harrar present a short guide to the seven stages of marriage-Passion, Realization, Rebellion, Cooperation, Reunion, Explosion and Completion-along with techniques for ""feeling happy, secure and satisfied"" in any of them. Told in an upbeat, family-friendly style, most information and advice are specific, practical and reinforced with simple exercises and humanizing anecdotes from Readers' Digest surveys. In the Realization chapter, Harrar and DeMaria urge readers to ""understand your expectations"" and those of their partner, a tricky proposition for which the authors provide a quick exercise and solid tips: ""Be realistic about what you do ask for,"" ""Use disappointment as a signal for unconscious expectations"" and ""Don't compare your spouse to other people's spouses."...