EmpoweringSA

PRIVILEGED and CHALLENGED
to be South African.
We're all in this TOGETHER

We promote meaningful and optimal living for all South Africans and restored relations amongst all South Africans through personal leadership exposure as well as the application of sound labour relations, human resources and employment practices.

Quotes

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Geoffrey F Abert

Find something that you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life!

Harvey Mackay - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter

Marlene Dietrich - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds

Ralp Waldo Emerson - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It doesn't matter where you've been, it only matters where you are going.

Brian Tracy - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Success doesn't come to you - you go to it.

Marva Collins - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

We become what we think about

Earl Nightingale - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple.

Eric Harvey - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.

Jack Welch - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

May home be the place from which you launch your dreams.

Mary Anne Radmacher - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas Edison - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

Denis Waitley - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings

Hodding Carter - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Indira Gandhi - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

If we make each and every moment count, we will have "enough" time.

Amy Jones - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Christopher Reeve - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Honor yourself with lovingly courageous actions chosen intentionally.

Mary Anne Radmacher - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Knowing your peace of mind is up to you, not the world, is the most powerful and secure state of mind you can achieve.

Lee Jampolsky - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

The best way to escape form a problem is to solve it.

Alan Saporta - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Choose your responses carefully. Whether you incite or inspire is your decision

Lorri Vaughter Allen - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Friendship is a relationship in which two people come to share the same soul.

Aristotle �300 BC - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

No act of kindness is ever wasted.

Aesop �500 BC - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

By concentrating on the positive, we create a sense of optimism and energy.

Christopher Novak - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It's not the size of the man, but the size of his heart that matters.

Evander Holyfield - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Wrap your loved ones with blessings of wellness and joy.

Kate Nowak - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It takes courage to let go of your assumptions and fly your dreams as a soaring invitation to become the best version of yourself.

Mary Anne Radmacher - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships

Anthony Robbins - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.

Andrew Grove - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Against the force of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Tell people where they are going and they may get there;inspire them with why they are going there and they will move mountains.

Christopher Novak - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

You have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Dr Seuss - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

I live in a world full of wonders: today I will notice and appreciate its amazing beauty and order.

Karen Casey - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as life-between.

Pat Riley - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got.

Sheryl Crow - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

If you want to be successful, you must get good at getting along.

BJ Gallagher - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Stephen Covey - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

James C Penney - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.

Laurence Sterne - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Your real performance standards are not the behaviors you expect, but rather the behaviors you accept.

BJ Gallagher - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Each spiritual journey begins with a step forward - the moment when you realize that there's more to life than you've been living.

Vicky Thompson - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

It's not what we leave our kids; it's what we leave within them that counts.

Valerie Sokolosky - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Excellent service givers pay attention to the person and situation at hand. They listen for things the client isn't saying.

Linda Byars Swindling - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Dr Joyce Brothers - with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

Mac Anderson-with acknowledgement of WALKTHETALK

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

We're not so much scared of failing - as being seen to fail!

Petes Weekly Business Idea, quoting Harry Beckwith

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.

Annie Billard

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

George F Tilton

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Francois Mauriac

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Daniel Webster

As I grew older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

Andrew Carnegie

Hope is a risk that must be run.

George Bernard Shaw

When a person tells you: "I’ll think it over and let you know" - you know.

Olin Miller

Recession - A period when sales are down 5% and staff meetings up 25%.

Unknown

Quality service: It is simply doing what you say you will do, within the time stated.

Wendy Evans

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity which the dreamers of the past never knew.

Napoleon Hill

You can accomplish much if you don’t mind who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan

Where there is a will there is a way. Through dogged determination and perseverance, the will becomes the way eventually.

Dr Anton Rupert

No electricity, no water, no furniture, no textbooks, no excuses, just success - Sunday Times, 5 August 2001 on a principle of a school on a remote Eastern Cape hillside which has pulled off an education miracle - an astonishing increase in its matric pass rate from less than 4% to 93% in just three years. I am proud to be a South African.

Sunday Times

On a recent visit to a listed company, I saw the following on a notice board: "Yesterday’s JSE share price was R... Tomorrow’s price depends on US!" If I want it to be, it’s up to me.

Unknown

Don’t live in the past and rely on past successes
· Get rid of your rear mirrors!
· The future is where the entrepreneur will spend most of his/her time
· Give scant regard to the past and be obsessed with the future.

Dr Anton Rupert

Time ... marches on; organize or agonise; seize it, or you will be seized; taste it, or it will be wasted; pursue it or you will perish in it; march with it or it will march right over you. Time marches on

Unknown

Goals - success can be defined as the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.

Unknown

Self discipline - a life in which anything goes will ultimately be a life in which nothing goes

Unknown

Career - life is to short not to enjoy it. Therefore, find something that you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing. Then learn to do it so well that people would be happy to pay you for it.

John Maxwell

Priorities - anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment-by-moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for.

Ross Perot

It is difficult to live successfully in the new, without a hope for the future and a willingness to forgive the past.

A friend

The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he just didn’t hear the referee.

Unknown

The longest journey starts with a single step. Henry Nowick adds "...in the right direction". Find your purpose in life. Then pursue it. Do not delay.

Lao Tzu Henry Nowick

You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be different, you would be in the process of changing right now

Fred Smith

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barker

You may be disappointed if you fail, but will be doomed if you don’t try.

Unknown

Quotes

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Find something that you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life!

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds

It doesn't matter where you've been, it only matters where you are going.

Success doesn't come to you - you go to it.

We become what we think about

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.

May home be the place from which you launch your dreams.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform cease to exist.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

If we make each and every moment count, we will have "enough" time.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Honor yourself with lovingly courageous actions chosen intentionally.

Knowing your peace of mind is up to you, not the world, is the most powerful and secure state of mind you can achieve.

The best way to escape form a problem is to solve it.

Choose your responses carefully. Whether you incite or inspire is your decision

Friendship is a relationship in which two people come to share the same soul.

No act of kindness is ever wasted.

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

By concentrating on the positive, we create a sense of optimism and energy.

It's not the size of the man, but the size of his heart that matters.

Wrap your loved ones with blessings of wellness and joy.

It takes courage to let go of your assumptions and fly your dreams as a soaring invitation to become the best version of yourself.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Against the force of laughter nothing can stand.

Tell people where they are going and they may get there;inspire them with why they are going there and they will move mountains.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

You have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

I live in a world full of wonders: today I will notice and appreciate its amazing beauty and order.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as life-between.

It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got.

If you want to be successful, you must get good at getting along.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.

Your real performance standards are not the behaviors you expect, but rather the behaviors you accept.

Each spiritual journey begins with a step forward - the moment when you realize that there's more to life than you've been living.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

It's not what we leave our kids; it's what we leave within them that counts.

Excellent service givers pay attention to the person and situation at hand. They listen for things the client isn't saying.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

We're not so much scared of failing - as being seen to fail!

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

As I grew older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

Hope is a risk that must be run.

When a person tells you: "I’ll think it over and let you know" - you know.

Recession - A period when sales are down 5% and staff meetings up 25%.

Quality service: It is simply doing what you say you will do, within the time stated.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity which the dreamers of the past never knew.

You can accomplish much if you don’t mind who gets the credit.

Where there is a will there is a way. Through dogged determination and perseverance, the will becomes the way eventually.

On a recent visit to a listed company, I saw the following on a notice board: "Yesterday’s JSE share price was R... Tomorrow’s price depends on US!" If I want it to be, it’s up to me.

Don’t live in the past and rely on past successes · Get rid of your rear mirrors! · The future is where the entrepreneur will spend most of his/her time · Give scant regard to the past and be obsessed with the future.

Time ... marches on; organize or agonise; seize it, or you will be seized; taste it, or it will be wasted; pursue it or you will perish in it; march with it or it will march right over you. Time marches on

Goals - success can be defined as the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.

Self discipline - a life in which anything goes will ultimately be a life in which nothing goes

Career - life is to short not to enjoy it. Therefore, find something that you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing. Then learn to do it so well that people would be happy to pay you for it.

Priorities - anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment-by-moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for.

It is difficult to live successfully in the new, without a hope for the future and a willingness to forgive the past.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he just didn’t hear the referee.

Don’t live in the past and rely on past successes
· Get rid of your rear mirrors!
· The future is where the entrepreneur will spend most of his/her time
· Give scant regard to the past and be obsessed with the future.