As a this New Year evolves, you may find many of these observations of special interest and value.

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” Stephen Covey

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison

“What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.” Buddha

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” Francis Bacon

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.” Albert Einstein

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Rohn

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Anthony Robbins

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” John W. Gardner

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank

“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” Mohandas Gandhi

“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

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men of old; seek what they sought.” Basho

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” Samuel Johnson

“The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” Socrates

“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” Bruce Barton

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier

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I hope that 2017 proves to be the best year you have ever had…thus far.