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One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety. | Deepak Chopra |
Underpromise; overdeliver. | Tom Peters |
To have peace, give peace. To be happy, make happy. To feel loved, love. This is very simple and is a part of all the world’s inspired teachings. | Hugh Prather |
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. | Anita Roddick |
There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. | Wayne Dyer |
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. | Orson Welles |
Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it. | Barry Rogstad |
Action conquers fear. | Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. | William Penn |
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. | Bertrand Russell |
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. | |
Everyone who got to where he is had to begin where he was. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property. | Gautama Buddha |
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do. | Kathleen Winsor |
You have the power to hurt yourself or to benefit yourself. If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. | Paramahansa Yogananda |
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. | |
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. | G. E. Lessing |
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin. | W. Clement Stone |
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. | Lee Iacocca |
Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances. | |
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. | Brendan Francis |
You get what you focus on. | David Justus |
You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself, because you never know when the World will need you. | Rabbi Hillel |
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. | Norman Vincent Peale |
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. | William James |
The greatest definition for concentration I ever heard is: wherever you are, be there! | |
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success. | Michael Jordan |
It is not length of life, but depth of life. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t. | Melody Beattie |
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. | Victoria Holt |
The best way to say, ‘I love you, God,’ is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, ‘Thank you, God,’ is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. | Don Miguel Ruiz |
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Organize your life around your dreams – and watch them come true. | |
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. | Charles D. Gill |
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. | Earl Nightingale |
While we are postponing, life speeds by. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. | Stephen Vincent Benet |
Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go. | Anonymous |
The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. | Blaine Lee |
Something almost magical happens when people break through the obstacles that hold them back and discover what is truly inside them. | Brian Biro |
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. | Abraham Lincoln |
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. | |
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. | |
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. | Norman Vincent Peale |
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. | Les Brown |
The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of the seed. | Robert Collier |
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. | Bernard Meltzer |
Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. | Bob Proctor |
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. | Thomas Edison |
People fail forward to success. | Mary Kay Ash |
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. | Deepak Chopra |
Most smiles are started by another smile. | Anon |
The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness. | Paulo Coelho |
Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. | Les Brown |
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose, though not always what I pleased. | Lois McMaster Bujold |
It is not good enough for things to be planned – they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. | Pir Vilayat Khan |
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. | Comte de Buffon |
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. | Napoleon Hill |
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. | Louis L’Amour |
How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%. | Vic Conant |
Change your thoughts and you change your world. | Norman Vincent Peale |
Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open up a window and look out to see who’s there. | Jalal ad-Din Rumi |
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. | Anne-Sophie Swetchine |
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. | Robert Heinlein |
It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. | Al Franken |
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. | Hugh Macleod |
Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. | Thomas Jefferson |
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. | Samuel Goldwyn |
The question for each of us is not what we would do if we had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have. | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. | Jean Houston |
The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. | |
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. | Claude M. |
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. | Joseph Campbell |
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. | Sarah Bernhardt |
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. | William Shakespeare |
Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip. | Zig Ziglar |
The greatest things on earth have been done little by little. | Thomas Guthrie |
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems. | Gandhi |
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. | Lucille Ball |
Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do. | David Wilkerson |
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. | Anais Nin |
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. | Denis Waitley |
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. | Henry Miller |
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. | Oprah Winfrey |
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. | Pablo Picasso |
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy |
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. | Dale Carnegie |
You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. | Scott Sorrell |
It’s not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about? | Henry David Thoreau |
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other…. The whole purpose of life is to live by love. | Thomas Merton |
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. | Abigail Adams |
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. | Welsh proverb |
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. | Mary Tyler Moore |
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. | William O. Douglas |
Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power”. | Peter McWilliams |
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. | Marvin Gaye |
The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you’re wasting. It’s up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. | Derek Jeter |
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. | John Schaar |
You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality. | Ramtha |
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. | Jim Rohn |
The amount of love you show to your neighbor reflects how much you love yourself. | Tessy Igbinoghene |
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness That makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. | Albert Clarke |
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. | Barbara DeAngelis |
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. | Michael Jordan |
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. | Jerry Rice |
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. | Patricia Neal |
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. | Voltaire |
The one thing that matters is the effort. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. | Edward Everett Hale |
Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does! | Richard Exely |
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. | George Bernard Shaw |
It’s not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it’s what you convince yourself is true. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
Whatever you believe with emotions becomes your reality.You always act in a manner consistent with your intermost beliefs and convictions. | Brian Tracy |
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. | Lee Iacocca |
What you must dare is to be yourself. | Dag Hammarskjold |
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings. | Oprah Winfrey |
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the art of peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. | Morihei Ueshiba |
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. | Ben Stein |
The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace “if I can, I hope, maybe” with “I can, I will, I must”. | Mary Kay Ash |
We have not been called to change this crazy world. We are called simply to love it. | Maithri Goonetilleke |
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. | Anwar el-Sadat |
Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. | Harvey Mackay |
The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities. | Stephen Covey |
We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have. | James R. Ball |
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. | Belva Davis |
Never let yesterday use up today. | Richard H. Nelson |
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. | Oprah Winfrey |
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. | Bertrand Russell |
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. | Leonardo da Vinci |
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. | Helen Keller |
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days. | Lance Armstrong |
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is impossible not to feel good about yourself if you make someone smile. | Enzo D’Alimonte |
Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. | William Dempster Hoard |
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. | Denis Waitley |
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. | J. K. Rowling |
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. | Zig Ziglar |
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it. | Dianne Houston |
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. | Edmund Hillary |
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. | Denis Waitley |
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. | John Foster Dulles |
Put your future in good hands – your own. | Mark Victor Hansen |
Who begins too much accomplishes little. | German Proverb |
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. | Wayne Dyer |
Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. | Anonymous |
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. | Dale Carnegie |
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. | Bernard Meltzer |
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. | Ayn Rand |
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. | Denis Waitley |
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. | Oprah Winfrey |
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. | George Bernard Shaw |
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. | Oprah Winfrey |
Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least. | Charley Willey |
All of us are gifted; some just open our packages earlier than others. | |
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. | Ben Franklin |
My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life. | Miles Davis |
The little things are infinitely the most important. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. | Margaret Bonnano |
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace. | Ernie Banks |
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. | Sydney Smiles |
Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. | Willis Whitney |
In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. | Max Dupree |
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. | Helen Keller |
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. | Maya Angelou |
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. | W. Somerset Maugham |
A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. | George S. Patton |
For every minute of anger, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. | Leo Buscaglia |
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. | Pamela Vaull Starr |
There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood. | Deepak Chopra |
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. | Brian Tracy |
How can I be more like you? She asked the guru. And the guru answered: The best way to be more like me is to be more like you. | Alan Cohen |
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. | Arnold Bennett |
The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it. | Neale Donald Walsch |
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. | Ken Keyes Jr. |
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. | Brian Tracy |
All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow | Anonymous |
Growth is the only evidence of life. | John Henry Newman |
The day you stop crying on your misfortune is the day you will be free. | Joel Chow |
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. | Kimon Nicolaides |
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’ | E. M. Kelly |
Don’t expect. Encourage. | Paul B. Taubman, II |
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. | J. Donald Walters |
Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. | Jamie Winship |
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. | Coleman Hawkins |
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in. | Morrie Schwartz |
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. | Winston Churchill |
Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are. | Kurt Cobain |
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. | Kurt Lewin |
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. | Arthur C. Clarke |
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. | Helen Keller |
Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. | Benjamin Disraeli |
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. | Walter Hagen |
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. | John D. Rockefeller |