A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note. In the room of 200,

He asked, "Who would like this Rupee 500 note?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this."

He proceeded to crumple the note up.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well," he replied, "What if I do this?"

And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty.

"Now who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.

No matter what I did to the money.

You still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth Rupee 500/-.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen.

Never lose your value.

You are special. Don't ever forget it! Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams.



"VALUE HAS A VALUE ONLY IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED"

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.- William B. Sprague

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt

Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost. Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. - Lucretius

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.- W.W. Ziege

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. - Shakespeare

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. - Abraham Lincoln

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - Anne Sullivan

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? - Robert Schuller

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. - Theodore N. Vail

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. - Jameson Frank

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. Source Unknown

For every mountain there is a miracle. - Robert H. Schuller

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. - African Proverb

We will either find a way, or make one! - Hannibal

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Anonymous

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - African Proverb

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. - Marva Collins

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure. - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth not going all the way, and not starting. – Buddha

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. - Thomas Watson, Sr

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. German Proverb

Remember: Success is nothing but luck. Just ask any failure. Anonymous

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napolean Hill

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. – Buddha

Who dares wins - Winston Churchill

Leap and the net will appear. - Julia Cameron

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. Leonardo da Vinci

You see things and say, 'Why?", but I dream things and say, 'Why not? - George Bernard Shaw

If you are in a hurry you will never get there. - Chines Proverb

The smoothest way is full of stones. - Yiddish Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. - Chinese Proverb
Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills. - Chinese Proverb

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups. - Peter Davies

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Unknown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. - Oprah Winfrey

There are no short cuts to any place worth going. - Source Unknown
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.- Vista M. Kelly

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen
Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. - English Proverb

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything. - Source Unknown

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant

Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?" - Richard Carlson Ph.D.

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations. – Unknown

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky

It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure. - Emilio James Trujillo

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinwitz

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.- Jean Sibelius

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. - Lloyd Jones

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it. - Winston Churchill

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