Success Of A Farmer

There was a farmer who grew superior quality, award-winning corn in his farm. Each year, he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honours and prizes.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew his corn. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in the competition with yours each year?" The reporter asked. "Why brother?" 

The farmer replied, "Didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen grains from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I have to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours to grow good corns too." 

The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbours' corn also improves. So it is in the other dimensions and areas of life! 

Those who choose to be in harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others live well too. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches...

Success does not happen in isolation; it is most often a participatory and collective process. So share the good practices, ideas and new knowledge with your family, friends, team members and neighbours and all. 

"Success breeds Success." 

- Author Unknown

Be The Best of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley-but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail
Be the best of whatever you are!

- By Douglas Malloch

Success

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty,
To find the best in others,
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

- by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Be Successful

Everyone Has A Chance To Be Successful
People often handle life as they do bad weather.
They while away the time waiting for it to stop.
Yet the tide of opportunity comes to everyone.
Opportunity knocks all the time,
But you've got to be ready for it.

When your chance comes,
You must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
The race is not to the swift
Or the battle to the strong,
For time and chance happen to everyone.

Take a second look at what appears
To be someone's "good luck."
You'll find not luck but preparation,
Planning and success-producing thinking.

When you're prepared for opportunity
Your chance for success is sure to come.
The season of failure is the best time
For sowing the seeds of success.

- Unknown

By Changing Your Thinking

By Changing Your Thinking,
You change your beliefs;

When you change your beliefs,
You change your expectations;

When you change your expectations,
You change your attitude;

When you change your attitude,
You change your behavior;

When you change your behavior,
You change your performance;

When you change your performance;
You Change Your Life!

- By Unknown

Success Is Waiting To Happen

When we see someone successful, we say that he just got lucky.

'He must have been at the right place at the right time.'

People only see one side of the picture. People don't see the failures.

If you study history, you will find that -

All stories of success are also stories of great failures.

So if you are failing; Remember, success is waiting to happen.

- Unknown

Don't Follow the Follower

Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind the other. Jean Hanri Fabre, the French entomologist, once lead a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot so that the leader of the procession found himself nose to tail with the last caterpillar in the procession, forming a circle without end or beginning.

Through sheer force of habit and, of course, instinct, the ring of caterpillars circled the flowerpot for seven days and seven nights, until they died from exhaustion and starvation. An ample supply of food was close at hand and plainly visible, but it was outside the range of the circle, so the caterpillars continued along the beaten path.

People often behave in a similar way. Habit patterns and ways of thinking become deeply established, and it seems easier and more comforting to follow them than to cope with change, even when that change may represent freedom, achievement, and success.

If someone shouts, “Fire!” it is automatic to blindly follow the crowd, and many thousands have needlessly died because of it. How many stop to ask themselves: Is this really the best way out of here?

So many people “miss the boat” because it's easier and more comforting to follow — to follow without questioning the qualifications of the people just ahead — than to do some independent thinking and checking.

A hard thing for most people to fully understand is that people in such numbers can be so wrong, like the caterpillars going around and around the edge of the flowerpot, with life and food just a short distance away. If most people are living that way, it must be right, they think. But a little checking will reveal that throughout all recorded history the majority of mankind has an unbroken record of being wrong about most things, especially important things. For a time we thought the earth was flat and later we thought the sun, stars, and planets traveled around the Earth. Both ideas are now considered ridiculous, but at the time they were believed and defended by the vast majority of followers. In the hindsight of history we must have looked like those caterpillars blindly following the follower out of habit rather than stepping out of line to look for the truth.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything — a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood.

AUthor : Earl Nightingale

Hardwork Helps

Hardwork is like the stairs,
Luck is like a lift.

Lift may fail sometimes.,
But whatever may be the occasion,
Stairs will always get you to the top.

Luck might help you once,
Hardwork helps always.

- Unknown

The World Is Following You

One day you might see yourself walking alone on a new path.
No one seems in sight. No one seems to have walked it earlier.
Don’t give up midway. You’re on a right track.
Go on. Reach your dreams.

The reason why you do not see anyone is because, the world is following you.

- Unknown

Successful Person Live By 4 Words

The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
~ Vince Lambardi


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


Determine that the thing can and shall be done,
and then we shall find the way.
~ Abraham Lincoln


Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo

Try, Try & Get Success

I have always seen life for what it really is.
Ever since I was a child growing up, hard times are all I know.

I had to sit back and watch my mother work from sunset to sundown.
I had to sit back and watch my mother work herself to her grave.

Nothing ever came easy for her.
She always had a heart and kept a smile on her face.

Life is like a newborn baby struggling to come out of its mother's womb,
life is a struggle true enough, but after all the struggling you have done,

and after all the hell you have been through, there is success.
Life is nothing but a big struggle, but just keep the faith and focus on your goals.

Don't let life beat you or you will be walking around like zombies.
Keep on pushing, keep on trying, life can be whatever you make it to be.

But life can also be a bowl of cherries with whip cream and apple pie.
I say this again; life is what you make of it.

You can achieve or conquer anything it throws at you,
you can't quit or give up, you have got to keep on working,

look higher some way, some how you are going to make it.


- Unknown

Practice Makes You Perfect

Someone noted that their life and their bank both have something in common - they get out of them about as much as they put in. Which, as far as my bank is concerned, isn't much! But it means I can get a great deal of joy and satisfaction out of life if I am careful about what I put into living.

Gary Player for years was a great competitor in national and international golf tournaments. People constantly said to him, "I'd give anything if I could hit a golf ball like you."

Upon hearing that comment one day, Player responded impatiently: "No, you wouldn't. You'd do anything to hit a golf ball like me, if it were easy! Do your know what you have to do to hit a golf ball like me? You've got to get up at 5:00 every morning, go out to the golf course, and hit a thousand golf balls! Your hands start bleeding, and you walk to the clubhouse and wash the blood off your hands, slap a bandage on it, and go out and hit another thousand golf balls! That is what it takes to hit a golf ball like me!"

His goal was to be at the top of his sport. That lofty dream requires practice, practice and more practice. If your desire, on the other hand, is to excel at living - to give and receive love, to experience joy and to develop fulfilling relationships - then how much of you will you put into your dream? These things, too, are possible with practice.

Moral :

Do you actually practice love, even when you don't feel like it?
Do you practice finding joy even when you're unhappy?
Do you work at difficult relationships?

It is not always easy, but the payoff is worth it!


- Author Unknown

Try Till You Win

Every time we fall in life, we give up.
We give up our dreams, give up ourselves.

Waves are inspiring, not because they rise and fall;
But because each time they fall, they never fail to rise again.

To win, you need to try. Try till you win.

- Unknown -

Life Without Challenge

A life without challenge would be like
going to school without lessons to learn.

Challenges come not to depress or get you down,
but to master and to grow and to unfold your abilities.

- Unknown -

Valuable Quotes!!!

1) It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

2) Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what
you really are; your reputation is merely what others think you are.

3) If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

4) A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

5) Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

- Unknown

Motivational Success Quotes

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~ Jean Nidetch


Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
~ Catfish Hunter

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~ Viscount John Morley


When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin


I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets.
It's when you are not scared of losing that you win everything.
~ Shailendra Singh


Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
~ Dale Carnegie, Author

Focus On Self !!!

Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live to our expectations.

We are so concerned about what others are doing that we don’t do anything ourselves.

Its not so important what others are upto; compared to what you are doing.

Focus on what you do, your work; Not on others.


- Author Unknown

Take the High Road

Finally, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9

The guide book said it was an easy hike around the lake, where the flat path hugged the water's edge. It was going to take longer this day, because I had to stop every few feet, it seemed, for another breathtaking view in the late afternoon light.

Rounding a bend, the path began to lean upward. Within minutes the fork in the road became visible.

The low road? The known path, The easy one. The high road? The unknown path. The intrigue and mystery of what's out there.

I found myself whistling an old ballad, "Oh! ye'll take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye". Decisions, decisions, hmmmm……..

I thought about forks in the road, spiritually-speaking. The Bible advises us to set our thoughts on things above, not below. I believe we need to set our goals high, rather than low; be challenged.

Actually, we always have a choice. My way, God's way. Seek the face of God, who gives us strength for the journey. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. (1 Chron 16:11)

The high road, God's way, always the better path. That is good news.

- Sally I. Kennedy

Twenty Truths To Remember

1. Faith is the ability to not panic.

2. If you worry, you didn't pray. If you pray, don't worry.

3. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home every day.

4. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

5. When we get tangled up in our problems, be still. God wants us to be still so
He can untangle the knot.

6. Do the math. Count your blessings.

7. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

8. Dear God: I have a problem. It's me.

9. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.

10. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.

11. The most important things in your home are the people.

12. Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.

13. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.

14. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.

15. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

16. We do not remember days, but moments. Life moves too fast, so enjoy your precious moments.

17. Nothing is real to you until you experience it, otherwise it's just hearsay.

18. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to
flush when you are done.

19. Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and
dreams you're seeking require courage and risk-taking. Learn from the turtle --
it only makes progress when it sticks out its neck.

20. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character
is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you
are.

~ Author Unknown

Winners Versus Losers

♦ The Winner is always part of the answer;

The Loser is always part of the problem.

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♦ The Winner always has a program;

The Loser always has an excuse.

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

The Loser says, "That is not my job."

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♦ The Winner sees an answer for every problem;

The Loser sees a problem for every answer.

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♦ The Winner says, " It may be difficult but it is possible";

The Loser says, "It may be possible but i t is too difficult."

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

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

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♦ A Winner makes commitments;

A Loser makes promises.

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♦ Winners have dreams;

Losers have schemes.

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♦ Winners say, "I must do something";

Losers say, "Something must be done."

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♦ Winners are a part of the team;

Losers are apart from the team.

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♦ Winners see the gain;

Losers see the pain.

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♦ Winners see possibilities;

Losers see problems.

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♦ Winners believe in win-win;

Losers believe for them to win someone has to lose.

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♦ Winners see the potential;

Losers see the past.

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♦ Winners are like a thermostat;

Losers are like thermometers.

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♦ Winners choose what they say;

Losers say what they choose.

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♦ Winners use hard arguments but soft words;

Losers use soft arguments but hard words.

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♦ Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things;

Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values.

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♦ 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 ."

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♦ Winners make it happen;

Losers let it happen.

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♦ Winners plan and prepare to win.

The key word is preparation.

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- Unknown