KUUMBA - Creativity

"The key point to success is that you've got to enjoy what you are do everyday." -B. Gates

NIA - Purpose

Ujamaa - Cooperative Economics

UJIMA - Collective Work and Responsibility

Kujichagulia - Self-determination

Umoja

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain." -K. Gibran

"Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong." -W. Thackeray

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." -T. Wilder

"The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize." -R. M. Milnes

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - H. Cain

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." -G. S. Patton

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -R. Bannister

"Out of need springs desire and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win." -D. Waitley

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -A. Clarke

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." -B. Franklin

"Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, hate less, love more, & good things will be yours." -Swedish Proverb

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

"The future depends on what we do in the present." - M. Gandhi

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." -A. C. Clarke

"Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer." -M. Wieder

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese proverb

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." -Dr. R. Schuller

"Some cause happiness wherever they go, others, whenever they go!" -O. Wilde

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." -D. Firebaugh

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"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." -W. B. Sprague

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." -R. Collier

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
-A. C. Clarke

"Every setback will either be an excuse to quit or motivation to get back up and try again." -J. Sprinkles

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
-T. A. Edison

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Dr. W. W. Dyer

"When it's your time, nobody can take it away from you because it's yours!" -J. Sprinkles

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." -S. Hamilton

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best." -M. Ali

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." -M. Miller

"They can because they think they can." -Virgil

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -H. D. Thoreau

"The only journey is the journey within." -R. M. Rilke

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." -D. Firebaugh

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

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it." R. Descartes

"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger." W. Churchill

"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will." A. Robbins

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." -Arabian Proverb

"If you feel like you're in the basement. get on the elevator, press a few buttons, the only way you can go is up!" K. W.

"I believe life is to be lived" L. Bartlett

It's possible!

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure." -V. Lombardi

"If life knocks you down land on your back because if you can look up you can get up

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. 95% of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events. - B. Tracy

"A stumble may prevent a fall." English Proverb

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday." -B. Tracy

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best." -M. Ali

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
J. Rohn

"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."M. Desai-

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome."-W. James

"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." M. Jordon

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." F. Nietzsche

"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."A. Robbins

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
T. Lasorda

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
R. Bannister

Today I think of Les Brown who says "Live your Dream", Tony Robbins who says "Live with passion" and Kat Williams who says "Live your life"

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." D. Eisenhower

"The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us." -G. Allen

"for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant" -Deuteronomy 8:18

"In order to be able to motivate other people, you first have to be motivated yourself." - unknown

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of out thanksgiving.- W.T. Purkiser

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." -M. Forbes

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." -M. Jordan

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." -T. A. Edison

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"Every person has their own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads them." - H. Miller

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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." Epictetus

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." -F. Nietzsche

"There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit." L. Burns, Jr.

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going!"

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." -unknown

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -R. Bannister

"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you." -Z. Ziglar

"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal." J. W. Von Goethe

"Every person has their own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads them." - H. Miller

"When a dream is big enough the odds don't matter!" -L. Brown

"The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present" -unknown

"Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built." -B. Tracy

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." C. Lynch

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"You must be willing to do what others wont do today, so you can have tomorrow what others cant have " -unknown

"Dont let perfection be the enemy good enough"-W. Lett

"A warrior never celebrates until after the victory has been won" - African Proverb

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." -R. Frost

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve." N. Hill

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -Anonymous

"I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living." -S. Spielberg

"We all have two choices;We can make a living or we can design a life." -J. Rohn

"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor." -B. Tracy

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." -T. Golas

"80% of success in life & in business is psychology 20% is mechanical" -A Robbins

Your thoughts become things! Say this to yourself over and over, & let it seep into your consciousness so you never forget it. -The Secret

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Keep your thinking right And your business will be right. -Z. Ziglar

"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge." -J.Watson

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

"Whatever you desire on any subject health, wealth, career, love is on the frequency of joy and feeling good." The Secret

"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory." -Ghandi

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"If you run into a wall, don't turn around & give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." M. Jordon

"Thoughts are things whatever you focus on you on consistanly you experience it." -A. Robbins

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." -V. Lombardi

"Whatever you desire on any subject health, wealth, career, love is on the frequency of joy and feeling good." The Secret

"Originality & the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work & struggle." -F. Dostoyevsky

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have.But there is a difference between a "must" and "want." -J. Rohn

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome." -W. James

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." E. Nightingale

"In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself." Anonymous

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them. -Z. Ziglar

"When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it." -J. Rohn

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments. -B. Tracy

"When life knocks you down land on your back because if you can look up you can get up!" -Les Brown

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."- General C. Powell

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." M. Jordon

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -Z. Ziglar

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them . -Z. Ziglar

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." -D. Carnegie

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"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves? self-discipline with all of them came first." -H. Truman

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." -B. Disraeli

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." –M. Miller

"Success is to be measured not by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome." B. T. Washington

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." -T. Lasorda

"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons." -J. Ruskin

"Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor." -B. Tracy

"Opportunity…often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." -N. Hill

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -J. Rohn

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." -N. Hill

When you have a goal stay on it with passion and persistence you will achieve it.

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." -S. Ewing

"Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak; until the finish is crossed.- S. Walker

"The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.- T. Adams

"If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go." -J. Gough

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful." - M. Forbes

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - T. Roosevelt

BELIEVING involves thinking, speaking, and acting as though you have already received what you have asked for. -The Secret

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you."-R. Emerson

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." - F. Wright

Everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it is just the result of thoughts. -The Secret

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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -A. Einstein

"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will." -A. Robbins

Goodness is not tied to greatness but greatness to goodness.- Greek Proverb

"Choice, not circumstances, determines your success." -Anonymous

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery." -A. Frank

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. -A. France

"Success isn't everything, but it sure beats the alternatives."- D. Findley

"Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do!" - T. H. Eker

"When you don't know which path to take or what to do, use the principles of the The Secret and ASK for guidance and clarity."-The Secret

"Happy Day to the best planet in the Solar System!"

Whenever you think of it, bring yourself back to the awareness of NOW. Do it hundreds of times a day. The Secret

"Creativity means believing you have greatness."-Dr. W. Dyer

"We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do." R. Evans

"At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made.That is,they started with nothing but ambition and energy,the same way most of us start."-B. Tracy

"When you know what you want,and you want it badly enough,you'll find a way to get it."- J. Rohn

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

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"Be true to your own goals." -Anonymous

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"Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms."- S. Johnson

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. -D. Hammarskjold

Positive relationships are very important. I just got off the phone with a very good friend who inspires me to want to do more. Who inspires you?

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”- C. Morley

"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge."-J. Watson

"Every person has their own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads them." - H. Miller

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out." - M. Burke

"There is no achievement without goals."-R. J. McKaine

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

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." -T. Lasorda

"BELIEVING involves thinking speaking, and acting as though you have already received what you have asked for." - The Secret

"We all have two choices;We can make a living or we can design a life." -J. Rohn

"We will either find a way, or make one!" Hannibal

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." -A. Mille

"When you emit the frequency of believing, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive."-The Secret

"We are magnificent beings who have been given an almighty gift-the ability to create our own lives, without any limits."-The Secret

"By holding a picture of the end result in your mind, all the forces of the Universe bring that picture into the world."- The Secret