Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 03/10/10

Mountains can never reach each other, despite their bigness. But humans can.

     - Afghan proverb

Image source: War News Update, June. 12, 2008

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Avenues to Success for 02/25/10

This is the Avenue to Success for 02/25/10. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 02/14/10

Three things come not back -
   the sped arrow,
     the spoken word,
       and the spent moment. ...

     - Pontiac, 1720-1769, Ottawa Indian chief

from the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian
Image source: First Nation History by Danieln Paul

Avenues to Success for 02/09/10

Those who think they have nothing to give should remember that they can always give of themselves and that they can always render some kind of service, even if it be nothing more than a few words of cheer.

     - Louis Fillmore

I could not find anything about Louis Fillmore. Can anyone help out with some information about him?

This is the Avenue to Success for 02/09/10. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 02/03/10

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

     - Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975, German-born American political scientist

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Avenues to Success for 01/23/10

Success is the realization of a worthy ideal.

     - Unknown

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Avenues to Success for 01/22/10

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
     - F.W. Robertson, 1816-1853, English preacher and theologian

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Avenues to Success for 01/19/10

When we commit to high ideals, we succeed before the outcome is known.

     - Walter Anderson, Born 1944, American journalist, author, Chairman & CEO, Parade Publications, GED Graduate (N. Carolina)

Image source: WTCC Adult Education

Avenues to Success for 01/17/10

To live your life with ease,
do what you ought -
not what you please.
     - Unknown                

This could be an updated version on a similar quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please."

This is the Avenue to Success for 01/17/10. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.

Avenues to Success for 01/11/10

You give little when you give of your possessions... It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

     - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer

Read an excerpt from Joan Acocella's, "Prophet Motive: The Kahlil Gibran phenomenon," The New Yorker, January 7, 2008, pp. 72-76. at DelanceyPlace.com. 

In today's --Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), author of the much-loved book of poems "The Prophet." Gibran was born to a poor family of Maronite Christians in Lebanon, moved with his mother to a ghetto in Boston in 1895, then lived the remainder of his life primarily in Boston and New York. Author of seventeen books, he was never critically esteemed, and lived primarily through the generosity of the women in his life. An alcoholic, he died a recluse from "cirrhosis of the liver with incipient tuberculosis": (click here to continue reading the excerpt.)

This is the Avenue to Success for 01/11/10. Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.