Seize opportunities when they occur.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." --Ann Landers

Day #281 - Seize opportunities when they occur.

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Put your dreams into action.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Begin today.  Quit putting off until tomorrow the dreams you have for today.  Stop thinking you have all kinds of time for hugging your grandchildren, using your best china, taking that long sought-after trip, making that expensive purchase, being nice to your neighbors, reconciling with your family members, or for anything else.  By beginning today, you put your dreams into action." --Richard L. Weaver II

Day #280 - Put your dreams into action.

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Have confidence in your ability.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it.  You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." --Rosalyn Carter


Day #279 - Have confidence in your ability.

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How you get up determines how you go to bed.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer

Day #278 - How you get up determines how you go to bed.

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Keep on trying.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" --Mary Anne Radmacher

Day #277 - Keep on trying.

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Hold your ideas with passion.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." --Carl W. Buechner

Day #276 - Hold your ideas with passion.

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Know what success is.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived --- that is to have succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day #273 - Know what success is.

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Realize that life is difficult.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.  It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.  Once we truly know that life is difficult --- once we truly understand and accept it --- then life is no longer difficult.  Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." --M.Scott Peck

Day #271 - Realize that life is difficult.

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Be careful of the beliefs you hold.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." --Bertrand Russell

Day #241 - Be careful of the beliefs you hold.

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