Quotes ~ The Drive To Succeed

Here are some quotes to help in our drive to succeed.

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Powerful and Inspirational Quotes

http://www.mylifecoach.com/inspirationalquotes.htm

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past,

but by the love we’re not extending in the present.

 ~ Marianne Williamson

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts;

it comes from seeing what is true.

 ~ The Buddha

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

 ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from,

turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

 ~ Andrew Harvey

Identification...is a form of escape from the self.

 ~ Krishnamurti

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

 ~ Dennis Weaver

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

 ~ M. Esther Harding

If you put yourself in a position where

you have to stretch outside your comfort zone,

then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

 ~ Les Brown

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness;

it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

 ~ Adrienne Rich

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

 ~ Albert Einstein

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in

can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

 ~ Barbara de Angelis

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

 ~ Lao Tzu

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

 ~ Earl Nightingale

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

 ~ Brian Tracy

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind.

 ~ Thoreau

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

 ~ Art Linkletter

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

 ~ Dale Carnegie

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it…Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

 ~ Goethe

No pressure, no diamonds.

 ~ Unknown

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 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

That which you persist in doing becomes easier to do.

Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed,

but that your ability to do it has increased!

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A nice blue motorcycle...

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The Bible & ALL Holy Books Are TRUE ~ PGA

It is interesting to note that...

... ALL Holy Books of the Major Religions in the world...

... are accepted as TRUE in the Courts of Law.

I shall only mention the Bible here since I'm more familiar with it.

The Bible has been accepted as TRUE...

... as it has been passed down since the beginning of time...

... and to discard now would cause us to loose 

... something which is probably true...

... because as hard as it is for us to proof that it IS True...

... it is probably more difficult to proof that it is NOT True.

... However, nobody is forced to believe in the Bible...

... and rightfully so in accordance with God's gift of Free Will.

The Bible has been accepted in the Courts of Law...

... and if I'm not wrong, so are the other Holy Books... 

... of the Other Main Religions of the world.

~ PGA ~ Wed, 2011 Mar 09, 0954hrs

Bible ~ Take this cup from me

Jesus In The Garden of Gethsemane, at the bottom of the slope, of the Mount of Olives.

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“Abba, Father,” he said,

“everything is possible for you.

Take this cup from me.

Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

~ Mark 14:36, NIV

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“Father, if you are willing,

take this cup from me;

yet not my will,

but yours be done.”

~ Luke 22:42, NIV

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Gethsemane (Mark 14:32-42, NIV)

32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”

33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.

34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”

35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him.

36 “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. 
Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping.
“Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?

38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

39 Once more he went away and prayed the same thing.

40 When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy.
They did not know what to say to him.

41 Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting?
Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

42 Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”

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Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives (Luke 22:39-46, NIV)

39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.

40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”

41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,

42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.

44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

45 When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.

46 “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”

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The Garden of Gethsemane is at the bottom of the slope of the Mount of Olives (Verification needed)

http://www.bibleplaces.com/mtolives.htm

Mount of Olives, also known as Olivet, Mount Olivet. It is separated from the Eastern Hill (the Temple Mount and the City of David) by the Kidron Valley, the Mt. of Olives has always been an important feature in Jerusalem's landscape.  From the 3rd millennium B.C. until the present, this 2900-foot hill has served as one of the main burial grounds for the city.  The two-mile long ridge has three summits each of which has a tower built on it. Early Christian pilgrims located the Garden of Gethsemane at the bottom of the slope of the Mt. of Olives opposite the Temple Mount.  Byzantine, Crusader and a modern church were built successively on the site where it is believed that Jesus prayed to the Father hours before his crucifixion.  The modern Church of All Nations has a beautiful mosaic on its facade. Adjacent to the Church of All Nations is an ancient olive garden.  Olive trees do not have rings and so their age can not be precisely determined, but scholars estimate their age to anywhere between one and two thousand years old.  It is unlikely that these trees were here in the time of Christ because of the report that the Romans cut down all the trees in the area in their siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

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