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| It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome. | William James |
| Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. | Thomas Guthrie |
| Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. | Napoleon Hill |
| If you want to have what you have not, you must do what you do not. | Taro Gold |
| It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know. | Anthony Robbins |
| The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Just remember – when you think all is lost, the future remains. | Dr. Robert H. Goddard |
| Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Forget concepts and philosophies. Forget methods and disciplines. Simply be yourself. Live, love, that is enough. | Sharma |
| One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser. | Jossie Estrella |
| A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. | Desiderius Erasmus |
| The bad news: there is no key to the universe. The good news: it was never locked. | Swami Beyondananda |
| The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else. | Arnold Bennett |
| Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don’t you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied. | Sri Chinmoy |
| If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. | Brian Tracy |
| Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition. | Arthur Rubinstein |
| In school you get the lesson and then take the test. In life you take the test and then get the lesson. | |
| One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO LIST every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. | Jean de La Fontaine |
| Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. | Sarah Caldwell |
| What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. | Aristotle |
| There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. | Frederico Fellini |
| Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself. | Harvey Fierstein |
| What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. | Wendell Phillips |
| I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It’s when you are not scared of losing that you win everything. | Shailendra Singh |
| The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. | William Faulkner |
| To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. | Soren Kierkegaard |
| You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself. | Katharine Hepburn |
| People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound. | James Allen |
| The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. | Mark Twain |
| The beginning is always today. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. | Babe Ruth |
| When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. | Napoleon Hill |
| You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. | Arthur Ashe |
| The most effective way to do it, is to do it. | Toni Cade Bambera |
| You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. | Evan Esar |
| The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. | William James |
| Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. | Erica Jong |
| The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. | Ruby Dee |
| The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. | Sidney J. Harris |
| The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting. | Walt Disney |
| Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. | Stan Smith |
| The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. | William Ralph |
| It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. | Greg Werner |
| I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. | Lucille Ball |
| I used to say, ‘I sure hope things will change.’ Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. | Jim Rohn |
| Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. | Charles Caleb Colton |
| To reach our goal, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
| Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others… but to get ahead of ourselves. | Thomas L. Monson |
| The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others. | Carl Rogers |
| If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. | Maya Angelou |
| If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. | Donald H. Rumsfeld |
| Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work. | Win Borden |
| Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. | Samuel Johnson |
| Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. | Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) |
| To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. | Dorothea Brande |
| God bless the whole world. No exceptions. | |
| They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. | Andy Warhol |
| When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures, so I did 10 times more work. | George Bernard |
| Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. | Liberace |
| Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. | Christopher Parker |
| Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. | Oprah Winfrey |
| Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. | Longfellow |
| What you believe yourself to be, you are. | Claude M. Bristol |
| Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. | Author Unknown |
| There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | Colin Powell |
| It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. | Vince Lombardi |
| Do not judge and you will never be mistaken. | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. | Ayn Rand |
| At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. | Dame Rose Macaulay |
| Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. | Oprah Winfrey |
| Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The secret of happiness is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. | Author Unknown |
| If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. | John B. Gough |
| If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. | Gary Zukav |
| Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad. | Christina Rossetti |
| Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. | Og Mandino |
| One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. | Lewis Carroll |
| Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, laugh; whenever you have an opportunity to dance, dance; whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing – and one day you will find you have created your paradise. | Osho |
| It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. | Zig Ziglar |
| Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else? | Budd Schulberg |
| Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. | Danny Kaye |
| When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. | Hugh White |
| If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. | Barbara Cook |
| Little by little, one travels far. | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | Joseph Addison |
| Time is not a line, but a series of now points. | Taisen Deshimaru |
| Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. | Mildred Barthel |
| Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself. | Oprah Winfrey |
| The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations – not yours. | Cynthia Kersey |
| We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. | E. Merrill Root |
| If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. | Frank Wilczek |
| Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. | Wally ‘Famous’ Amos |
| Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. | Winston Churchill |
| It is not enough to aim; you must hit. | Italian Proverb |
| Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success; both theirs and yours. | T. Harv Eker |
| It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. | Elinor Smith |
| Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. | Annie Lennox |
| Focus your messages on the results you expect, not on the methods for doing the job. | Marty Brounstein |
| Life is always walking up to us and saying, ‘Come on in, the living’s fine,’ and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. | Russell Baker |
| A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. | J. Paul Getty |
| This became a credo of mine…attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. | Bette Davis |
| Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. | Conrad Hilton |
| The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. | Michael Altshuler |
| Your outer circumstances are the mirror of your inner world. Change your inner world, and you change your outer world. | Remez Sasson |
| The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. | Louise Hay |
| True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway. | Author Unknown |
| Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. | Boris Pasternak |
| If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. | Tallulah Bankhead |
| Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. | Betty Eadie |
| The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. | Theodore Rubin |
| Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. | Eddie Cantor |
| The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. | John Ruskin |
| The way we see the problem is the problem. | Stephen Covey |
| The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. | Brian Tracy |
| In all things it is better to hope than to despair. | Johann W. von Goethe |
| The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. | Rebecca Beard |
| Belief in yourself, belief in your abilities, will override fear almost every time. The only thing we are afraid of is what we are capable of accomplishing. | Rich DiGirolamo |
| Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. | Vincent Van Gogh |
| The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. | Albert Ellis |
| Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. | Mary Kay Ash |
| Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. | Joel Hawes |
| To be successful in life, gravitate towards the standard of excellence, not the standard of acceptance. | Enzo D’Alimonte |
| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| You’re alive. Do something. Look. Listen. Choose. Act. | Barbara Hall |
| Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened. | Proverb |
| Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. | Germaine Greer |
| Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it’s about doing, being and becoming. It’s about the choices you’ve just made, and the ones you’re about to make, it’s about the things you choose to say – today. | Mike Dooley |
| Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. | Wayne Dyer |
| Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. | Neale Donald Walsch |
| There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. | Albert Einstein |
| Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important. | Stephen Covey |
| Look at the abundance all around you as you go about your daily business. You have as much right to this abundance as any other living creature. It’s yours for the asking. | Earl Nightingale |
| Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. | Johann W. von Goethe |
| Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. | Sir William Osler |
| There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. | Ronald Reagan |
| When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective. | George C. Marshall |
| If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. | Brendan Francis |
| I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. | Booker T. Washington |
| There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them. | Laura Preble |
| We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly. | Shakti Gawain |
| You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. | Mike Murdock |
| It is in giving that we receive. | St. Francis of Assisi |
| Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. | William James |
| All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! | Bob Newhart |
| Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others. | William Arthur Ward |
| When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you. | Lao Tzu |
| The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. | Robert H. Schuller |
| Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret. | Vincent Van Gogh |
| Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. | Dale Carnegie |
| Happiness depends upon ourselves. | Aristotle |
| Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| My actions are my only true belongings. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| It may not be your fault for being down, but it’s got to be your fault for not getting up. | Steve Davis |
| All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. | James Allen |
| Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. | |
| A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. | Robert Frost |
| So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. | Christophe |
| The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. | David Starr Jordan |
| You create your opportunities by asking for them. | Patty Hansen |
| You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. | Galileo |
| We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier. | Walter Savage Landor |
| Mistakes are the portals of discovery. | James Joyce |
| Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. | Sren Kierkegaard |
| Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. | Herbert Kaufman |
| Never spend your money before you have earned it. | Thomas Jefferson |
| The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation. | Andrew Schneider |
| We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. | Margaret Mead |
| Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. | Viktor Frankl |
| Travelers: there is no path. Paths are made by walking. | Antonio Machado |
| The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around? | Oprah |
| We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. | Eric Hoffer |
| If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. | Lee Iacocca |
| Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. | William Arthur Ward |
| Eliminate the time between the idea and the act. | Dr. Edward Kramer |
| When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. | Lao Tzu |
| Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. | Bernice Johnson Reagon |
| Positive thoughts have power to change your life when they’re fueled by positive emotions. | Peggy McColl |
| Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. | Herman Cain |
| We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. | Everett Mamor |
| The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. | Dr. Leo Buscaglia |
| Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. | Sir J. Lubbock |
| Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit. | Diego Marchi |
| Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success. | Louisa May Alcott |
| If you become a learner you will encounter the greatest teachers. | Steve Stimson |
| Of course, anger can always be justified. But then, so can forgiveness. It all depends on how much more you want from the adventure. | Mike Dooley |
| The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. | Booker T. Washington |
| If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. | Shimon Peres |
| A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. | Tony Robbins |
| He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. | Elbert Hubbard |
| In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence. | Buddha |
| Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. | Brenda Ueland |
| The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. | Tom Morris |
