Barack Obama on Change

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Source: brainyquote.com

Billy Blanks on Real Strength

No matter how you feel, no matter what you know, in the end, it's your will that determines how you put your feelings and that knowledge into action. It's your will that makes it possible for you to put your faith into action, to make what you believe in happen for you. Knowledge is power.

Billy Blanks
The Tae Bo Way
©2000, Random House

Abraham Lincoln on Resolution

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Source: thinkexist.com

Ogden Nash on Awareness

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

Source: nonstopenglish.com

Billy Blanks on Success

Don't set yourself up to fail. Before you make your first move, change your thinking. Set yourself up to conquer - your body, your thoughts, your will.

Billy Blanks
The Tae Bo Way
©2000, Random House

Irish Toast Wisdom

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Irish Toast

Source: nonstopenglish.com

Billy Blanks on Motivation

Listen to the Angel

On one shoulder, a devil shouts in your ear, telling you how bad you feel, how tired you are, and trying to convince you to just give up and walk off. That's your body.

On the other shoulder, an angel encourages you, reminding you how much better you're going to feel if you just get through the next few reps. That's your spirit.

Your mind is somewhere in the middle, sitting on the fence, listening to both sides of the story, trying to decide which way to go. Now your mind can take either side, depending on what kind of information it has.

You're going to take some action.

Will it be positive or negative? Will you keep going or will you quit?

Billy Blanks
The Tae Bo Way
©2000, Random House

Sydney Smith on Resolution

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Sydney Smith, writer, lived in the 18th and 19th centuries

Source: bellaonline.com

William Ellery Channing on Resolution

I will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.

William Ellery Channing, lived in the 19th century

Source: bellaonline.com

Observational Wisdom

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

Author Unknown


Source: bellaonline.com

James Agate on Resolution

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

Source: bellaonline.com

Observational Wisdom

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Author Unknown


Source: quotegarden.com

Laura Ingalls Wilder on the Spirit of Christmas

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Source: quotegarden.com

George Seaton on the Spirit of Christmas

Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn): Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind...

Kris Kringle to the skeptical Doris Walker in Miracle on 34th Street.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Screenplay by George Seaton
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Source: imdb.com

George Seaton on the Spirit of Christmas

Fred Gailey (John Payne): You don't have any faith in me, do you? It's not about faith. It's just common sense. Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. It's not just Kris that's on trial. It's everything he stands for. It's kindness, joy, love, and all other intangibles.

Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara): Fred, you're talking like a child. You're living in a realistic world! Those lovely intangibles aren't worth much. You don't get ahead that way.

Fred Gailey: ...Yes, I guess I expected too much. Someday, you're going to find out...that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover they're the only things that are worthwhile.

Fred Gailey, Kris Kringle's attorney, to the cynical Doris Walker, Macy's Special Events Director, about the existence of Santa Claus in the touching Miracle on 34th Street.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Screenplay by George Seaton

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Sources: imdb.com and script-o-rama.com