RECOGNITION & SUCCESS

      The recognition that drives our success is not the outward recognition or awards we gain from others, but the inward recognition and understanding we gain of ourselves...knowing who and what we really are.

"Know thyself."
-- Proverb, in every ancient teaching

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."
-- Lao-tzu

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High."
-- Psalms 82:6--8 6

"Jesus answered them, 'Isn't it written in your law, I said, you are gods?'
-- John 10:34

"There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now."
-- Gautama Siddhartha (Buddha)

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed."
-- Carl Jung

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this."
-- Black Elk

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."
-- Aldous Huxley

"What you are is God's gift to you. What you do with yourself is your gift to God."
-- White Buffalo Calf Woman

"We are potentially all things; our personality is what we are able to realize of the infinite wealth which our divine-human nature contains hidden in its depths."
-- W.R. Inge (interpreting Plotinus)

"What we have done has barely scratched the surface. It turns out that there is, in fact, unlimited juice in that lemon. The fact is, this is not about squeezing anything at all: It is about tapping an ocean of creativity, passion, and energy that, as far as we can see, has no bottom and no shores."
-- Jack Welch

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein

"I am not just a human being... I am a human just becoming ."
-- Dr, Andy Eastcott

"Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything."
-- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My life is my message."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Somewhere on your pathway to enrichment you will find the most valuable hidden asset of all: Your true self."
-- Grady L. Dobbs

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go unto the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
-- Alan Alda

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."
-- Rusty Berkus

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world."
-- Marianne Williamson

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
-- Henry Miller

"You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you."
-- Barbara Sher

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
-- Jerry Gillies

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
-- Carl Jung

"³Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.²
-- Dale Carnegie

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
-- Helen Keller

""The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."
-- Florence Shinn

"When we fully realize that thought causes all we will know, there are never any limits that we ourselves do not impose."
-- U.S. Anderson

"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?
-- Jim Rohn

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power
-- Lao Tzu

"The last quarter of a century of my life has been pretty constantly and faithfully devoted to the study of the human race -- that is to say, the study of myself, for in my individual person I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way."
-- Mark Twain

"You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you."
-- Dr. Robert Anthony

"You are the light of the worldŠ Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works,and glorify your Father who is in heaven."
-- Matthew 5:14, 16

"There is nothing enlightening about shrinking, so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-- Marianne Williamson

"Our lives become happier and more fufilling when we develop the skillful habit of looking within. The discoveries from our own thoughts and meditation -- the thoughts and ideas that "drop into the mind" -- are the most valuable, for they bring information meant just for us."
-- Grady L. Dobbs

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
-- Hans Margolius

"We must ask where we are and whither we are tending."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses, and so acceptance of one's self is the acid test of one's whole outlook on life... The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
-- Carl Jung

"There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is."
-- William George Jordan

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner."
-- Aldous Huxley

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world,
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Follow that path which your relaxed mind shows to be your own. In following that inner guidance...your higher self...you will be led naturally to flow into your life's purpose."
-- Grady L. Dobbs

"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."
-- Georg Hegel

"One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."
-- Margaret Thatcher

"We are all HITs...Humans In Training."
-- Dan Millman

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Eliot

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