IF YOu THINK

If you think you are beaten, you are.

If you think you dare not, you don't!

Tfyou like to win, but think you can't,

It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;

For out in the world we find

Success begins with a fellow's will;

It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,

.You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourselfbt:fore

You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger and faster man,

But sooner or later the man who wins

                       Is the man who thinks he can.

This is to have succeeded.....

To laugh often and love much;

To win the respect of intelligent persons

and the affection of children;

To earn the approval of honest critics

and endure the betrayal offalse friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To Jfind the best in others;

To give off one's self without the

slightest thought of return;

To have accomplished a task, whether

by a healthy child, a rescued soul, a

garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with

Enthusiasm and sung 'lvith exaltation;

To know that even one life has breathed

easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded.

Winners - Losers

 Winners are a part of the team; 

Losers are apart from the team.

Winners see the gain;

Losers see the pain.

Winners see possibilities;

Losers see problems.

Winners believe in win/wjn;

Losers believe for them to Win someone has to lose. 

Winners see the potential;

Losers see the past.

Winners are like a thermostat; 

Losers are like thermometers.

Winners choose what they say;

Losers say what they choose.

Winners use hard arguments but soft words;

Losers UE soft arguments but hard words.

Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things;

Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values.

Winners follow the philosophy of empathy: "Don't do to others what you would not want them to do to you" 

Losers follow the philosophy, "Do it to others before they do it to you."

Winners make it happen;

Losers let it happen.

You Cannot Bring...........

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by 'lveakening the strong ,

You cannot enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. 

You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payor.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence-

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you [;1 earn.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

                                                                                                                                                          -                                                                                                              Abraham Lincoln

Winners and Losers - Version 2

The Winner is always part of the answer;

         The Loser is always part of the problem.

The Winner always has a program;

          The Loser always has an excuse.

The Winner says, "Let me do it for you";

        The Loser says, IIThat is not my job."

The Winner sees an answer for every problem;

       The Loser sees a problem for every answer.

The Wj.nner says, lIlt may be difficult but it is possj.b~e";

        The Loser says, lIlt may be possible but it is too difficult."

When a Winner makes a mistake, he says, "1 was wrong" ;

       When a Loser makes a mistake, he says, lIlt wasn't my fault."

A Winner makes commitments;

       A Loser makes promises.

Winners have dreams;

      Losers have schemes-

Winners say, "1 must do something" ;

       Losers say, "Something must be done."

If

If you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream  - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat these two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

---- Rudyard Kipling

The Moving Water

When  you do things from your soul, you feel a river

moving in you, a joy.

When actions come from another section, the feeling

disappears.  Don't let

others lead you.  They may be blind or, worse, vultures.

Reach for the rope

of God.  And what is that?  Putting aside self-will.

Because of willfulness

people sit in jail, the trapped bird's wings are tied,

fish sizzle in the skillet.

The anger of police is willfulness.  You've seen a magistrate

inflict visible punishment.  Now 

see the invisible.  If you could leave your selfishness, you

would see how you've

been torturing your soul.  We are born and live inside black water in a well.

How could we know what an open field of sunlight is? Don't

insist on going where

you think you want to go.  Ask the way to the spring.  Your

living pieces will form

a harmony.  There is a moving palace that floats in the air

with balconies and clear

water flowing through, infinity everywhere, yet contained

under a single tent.

                                                                                          ------- Rumi

A Smile

A smile costs nothing, but gives much-

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it usually lasts forever. 

None are so rich that can get along without it-

And none are so poor but that can be made rich by it.

It enriches those who receive, without making poor those who give-

It creates sunshine in the home, 

Fosters good will in business, 

And is the best antidote for trouble-

And yet it cannot be begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is of no value

Unless it is given away.

Some people are too busy to give you a smile-

Give them one of yours-

For the good Lord knows that no one needs a smile so badly

As he or she who has no more smiles left to give.

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will, 

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, 

When funds are low and the debts are high, 

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh. 

When care is pressing you down a bit. 

Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. 

Life is queer with its twists and turns

As every one of us sometimes learns. 

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out: 

Don't give up though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow. 

Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. 

And you never can tell how close you are. 

It may be near when it seems so far: 

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

-- Unknown Author