Quotes about famous quotes
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right."— Henry Ford
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."— Eric Hoffer
"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning."— Larry Page
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."— Neil Gaiman
"There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do."— Amy Poehler
"The biggest room in the world is room for improvement."— Helmut Schmidt
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."— Albert Schweitzer
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."— Albert Einstein
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."— William Shakespeare
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."— Albert Einstein
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."— Denis Waitley
"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?"— David Bader
"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else."— Jean François Paul de Gondi
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."— Epictetus
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."— Leonardo da Vinci
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."— Andy Rooney
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."— Henri Bergson
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."— Mark Twain
"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."— Leonardo da Vinci
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."— Harriet Tubman
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."— Abraham Lincoln
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."— Karl Menninger
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."— Democritus
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."— Kenji Miyazawa
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."— Maya Angelou
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."— Theodore Isaac Rubin
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."— Henri Bergson
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."— Richard Bach
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."— Will Durant
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."— Leo Tolstoy
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."— Leo Buscaglia
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."— Douglas MacArthur
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."— Marilyn Monroe
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."— Dalai Lama
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."— Babe Ruth
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear."— Pat Riley
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."— Willa Cather
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."— Michelangelo
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."— Napoleon Hill
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."— Pema Chödrön
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow."— Rachel Carson
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing."— Tony Blair
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."— Ralph Marston
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."— Albert Einstein
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."— Albert Schweitzer
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."— Bruce Lee
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."— Elbert Hubbard
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."— James Freeman Clarke
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."— Nelson Mandela
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."— Henry David Thoreau
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."— Peter Drucker
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing."— Michel de Montaigne
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."— Frank Lloyd Wright
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."— Aristotle
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."— Charles Henry Parkhurst
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."— Publilius Syrus
"You teach best what you most need to learn."— Richard Bach
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."— Edwin Markham
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."— Frederick Douglass
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."— John Lennon
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."— Laurence J. Peter
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."— Kahlil Gibran
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."— Carlos Castaneda
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."— Booker T. Washington
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate."— Benjamin Disraeli
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."— Bernard Shaw
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."— Albert Camus
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others."— Dalai Lama
"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."— Erasmus
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience."— Elbert Hubbard
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."— René Descartes
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."— Robert Schuller
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."— Tony Robbins
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."— William Shakespeare
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."— Albert Einstein
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."— Denis Waitley
"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?"— David Bader
"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else."— Jean François Paul de Gondi
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."— Epictetus
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."— Leonardo da Vinci
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."— Andy Rooney
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."— Henri Bergson
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."— Mark Twain
"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."— Leonardo da Vinci
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."— Harriet Tubman
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."— Abraham Lincoln
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."— Karl Menninger
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."— Democritus
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."— Kenji Miyazawa
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."— Maya Angelou
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."— Theodore Isaac Rubin
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."— Henri Bergson
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."— Richard Bach
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."— Will Durant
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."— Leo Tolstoy
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."— Leo Buscaglia
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."— Douglas MacArthur
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."— Marilyn Monroe
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."— Dalai Lama
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."— Babe Ruth
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear."— Pat Riley
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."— Willa Cather
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."— Michelangelo
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."— Napoleon Hill
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."— Pema Chödrön
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow."— Rachel Carson
"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing."— Tony Blair
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."— Ralph Marston
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."— Albert Einstein
"We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."— Albert Schweitzer
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."— Bruce Lee
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."— Elbert Hubbard
"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."— James Freeman Clarke
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."— Nelson Mandela
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."— Henry David Thoreau
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."— Peter Drucker
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing."— Michel de Montaigne
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."— Frank Lloyd Wright
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."— Aristotle
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."— Charles Henry Parkhurst
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."— Publilius Syrus
"You teach best what you most need to learn."— Richard Bach
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."— Edwin Markham
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."— Frederick Douglass
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."— John Lennon
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."— Laurence J. Peter
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."— Kahlil Gibran
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."— Carlos Castaneda
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."— Booker T. Washington
"We make our own fortunes and we call them fate."— Benjamin Disraeli
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."— Bernard Shaw
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."— Albert Camus
"It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others."— Dalai Lama
"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."— Erasmus
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience."— Elbert Hubbard
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."— René Descartes
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."— Robert Schuller
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."— Tony Robbins
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."— William Shakespeare
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back."— Seneca the Younger
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."— Oscar Wilde
"So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."— Mother Teresa
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."— Abraham Lincoln
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available."— James M. Beggs
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today."— Brendan Behan
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."— Bruce Lee
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."— W. Clement Stone
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."— Publilius Syrus
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."— Søren Kierkegaard
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."— Voltaire
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."— Richard Bach
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."— Norman Schwarzkopf
"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think."— Oprah Winfrey
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."— Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."— Leonardo da Vinci
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible."— Elizabeth Browning
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."— John Galsworthy
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."— Elbert Hubbard
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."— Richard Bach
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."— Frederick Douglass
"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another."— John Dewey
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."— Seneca the Younger
"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life."— Seneca the Younger
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."— Augustine of Hippo
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."— Muhammad Ali
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."— Naguib Mahfouz
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."— Henry Ward Beecher
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose."— Dale Earnhardt
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."— Bruce Lee
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."— Abraham Lincoln
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."— Arthur Conan Doyle
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."— Theodore Roosevelt
"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship."— Benjamin Franklin
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."— Thomas Jefferson
"All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts."— William Shakespeare
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."— Seneca the Younger
"We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice."— Sogyal Rinpoche
"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything."— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."— Robert Southey
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."— Napoleon Hill
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."— William Shakespeare
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."— Billy Wilder
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."— Christopher Reeve
"It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains."— Danilo Dolci
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."— John Dewey
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."— John Locke
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."— Joseph Joubert
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."— John Lennon
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."— Henry Ford
"Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck."— Og Mandino
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving."— John Dewey
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."— Bruce Lee
"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little."— Cheng Yen
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."— Dalai Lama
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."— Aristotle
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."— Thomas Haynes Bayly
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."— Anaïs Nin
"Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself."— Oprah Winfrey
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."— Alexander the Great
"I'll prepare and someday my chance will come."— Abraham Lincoln
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."— William Arthur Ward
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."— Anaïs Nin
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."— Albert Einstein
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."— Richard Bach
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."— Thomas Edison
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."— Thomas Paine
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."— Jim Rohn
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."— Charles W. Chesnutt
"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used."— William Inge
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."— Benjamin Disraeli
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."— Epictetus
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."— Leo Buscaglia
"Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes."— Carl Jung
"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow."— Alice Walker
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health."— Dalai Lama
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."— Abraham Lincoln
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."— Richard Bach
"No man was ever wise by chance."— Seneca the Younger
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."— Nelson Mandela
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health."— Dalai Lama
"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose."— Eknath Easwaran
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."— George S. Patton
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."— Leo Buscaglia
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."— Abraham Lincoln
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."— Mother Teresa
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."— Maya Angelou
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."— Oscar Wilde
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."— Joyce Brothers
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."— Lily Tomlin
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."— John Keats
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you."— Eckhart Tolle
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."— Jane Austen
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."— May Sarton
"Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time."— Thomas Carlyle
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."— William Shakespeare
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."— John C. Maxwell
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"— Joe Namath
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."— Michelangelo
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."— Dalai Lama
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."— Epictetus
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act."— G. K. Chesterton
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."— Alexander Pope
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt."— Jane Addams
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better."— Henry David Thoreau
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."— Epictetus
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people."— Carl Jung
"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people."— Daisaku Ikeda
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."— Albert Schweitzer
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."— Epictetus
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."— Bruce Lee
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."— Epictetus
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."— Winston Churchill
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."— Molière
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."— Kahlil Gibran
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."— Robert Fulghum
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."— Thomas Jefferson
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."— Vince Lombardi
"To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly."— Voltaire
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."— Theodore Roosevelt
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."— Augustine of Hippo
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."— Satchel Paige
"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."— Epictetus
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."— Dr. Seuss
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."— Leonardo da Vinci
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."— Blaise Pascal
"God always takes the simplest way."— Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."— Albert Einstein
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable."— Seneca the Younger
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."— Richard Bach
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."— Immanuel Kant
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."— Harry Kemp
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."— Demosthenes
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."— Bruce Lee
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."— Jonathan Swift
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel."— Benjamin Franklin
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"— Abraham Lincoln
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."— Ray Bradbury
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"— Richard Bach
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."— Mother Teresa
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."— Napoleon
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception."— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."— Henri Poincaré
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."— Kahlil Gibran
"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun."— Kahlil Gibran
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."— John Ruskin
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt."— Honoré de Balzac
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."— William Blake
"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can."— Isocrates
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."— Bernard Shaw
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"— Abraham Lincoln
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt."— Honoré de Balzac
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."— Zig Ziglar
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"— Richard Bach
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception."— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."— William Blake
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."— Plato
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."— Richard Bach
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."— Pema Chödrön
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."— Paul Cézanne
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."— Carl Jung
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."— Francis of Assisi
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."— Gail Sheehy
"It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts."— Ella Fitzgerald
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."— Joseph Roux
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."— Albert Einstein
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."— Charles Lamb
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."— Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."— René Descartes
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."— Washington Irving
"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never promise more than you can perform."— Publilius Syrus
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."— Annie Dillard
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."— Abraham Lincoln
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."— Chuck Swindoll
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."— Hannah More
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."— William Shakespeare
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."— Marianne Williamson
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."— Theophrastus
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world."— Marcus Aurelius
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."— Thomas Fuller
"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."— Epictetus
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."— Isaac Asimov
"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."— Walter Lippmann
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."— Bernice Reagon
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."— Carl Jung
"Do one thing every day that scares you."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."— Anaïs Nin
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."— Chuck Norris
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."— Alfred Korzybski
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."— Henry Ford
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"— Dr. Seuss
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."— Confucius
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."— Napoleon Hill
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world."— Dalai Lama
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."— Augustine of Hippo
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."— Napoleon Hill
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."— William Ellery Channing
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."— John Quincy Adams
"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."— William Blake
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."— Winston Churchill
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility."— Napoleon Hill
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."— Napoleon Hill
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present."— Babatunde Olatunji
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."— Bruce Lee
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."— Anaïs Nin
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."— Thomas à Kempis
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."— Albert Einstein
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."— Helen Keller
"Almost everything comes from nothing."— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world."— Hannah Szenes
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."— John Barrymore
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."— Laozi
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."— Alan Watts
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."— Mother Teresa
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"— Martin Luther King Jr.
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."— Napoleon Hill
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."— Mark Twain
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."— Mark Twain
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them."— Sophocles
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."— Abraham Lincoln
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."— Alfred Tennyson
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."— Carl Jung
"Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?"— Dalai Lama
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors."— Dalai Lama
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens."— Epictetus
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."— Everett Dirksen
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart."— Helen Keller
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."— Melody Beattie
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment."— Pema Chödrön
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."— Rabindranath Tagore
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."— Robert M. Pirsig
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."— Tony Robbins
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."— Winston Churchill
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."— Zig Ziglar
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."— Agatha Christie
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life."— Anaïs Nin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."— Benjamin Franklin
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."— Blaise Pascal
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."— Buckminster Fuller
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."— Helen Keller
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."— Jim Rohn
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."— John F. Kennedy
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway."— Mary Kay Ash
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it."— Michelangelo
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."— Oprah Winfrey
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."— Pablo Picasso
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know."— Richard Bach
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."— Sophocles
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."— Voltaire
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."— Wayne Dyer
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."— Albert Schweitzer
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."— Anne Frank
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything."— Denis Waitley
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."— Elbert Hubbard
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be."— Grandma Moses
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."— Laozi
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."— Nikola Tesla
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."— Pablo Picasso
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."— Sigmund Freud
"If you can dream it, you can do it."— Walt Disney
"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."— Walter Benjamin
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."— Walter Lippmann
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back."— Wayne Dyer
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."— Winston Churchill
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."— Abraham Lincoln
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."— Anatole France
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."— Carl Jung
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."— Charles Du Bos
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that."— Eckhart Tolle
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."— Gloria Steinem
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."— Helen Keller
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in."— Heraclitus
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out."— Jack Buck
"Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."— Jean-Paul Sartre
"Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."— Marcus Aurelius
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."— Marcus Aurelius
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."— Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."— Mark Twain
"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it."— Publilius Syrus
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."— Wayne Dyer
"Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."— Whoopi Goldberg
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."— William Penn
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."— Abraham Lincoln
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."— Anne Bradstreet
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes."— Carl Jung
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."— Henry K. Beecher
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."— Henry Miller
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."— Lewis Cass
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be."— Marsha Petrie Sue
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."— Pema Chödrön
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Learning is finding out what you already know."— Richard Bach
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."— Wayne Dyer
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."— Will Rogers
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."— Abraham Lincoln
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."— Aristotle
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."— Bruce Lee
"Error is discipline through which we advance."— William Ellery Channing
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."— Epictetus
"There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it."— Henry Moore
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."— Maureen Dowd
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."— Napoleon Hill
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."— Pablo Picasso
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."— Richard Bach
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."— Richard Bach
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."— Satchel Paige
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way."— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."— Albert Einstein
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."— Amy Bloom
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."— Carl Jung
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them."— Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday."— Franz Liszt
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."— Marcus Aurelius
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."— Tony Robbins
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."— Wayne Dyer
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition."— Ralph Abernathy
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."— Anne Frank
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."— Arthur Schopenhauer
"If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor."— Daisaku Ikeda
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."— Jimmy Dean
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."— Joseph Campbell
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."— Mark Twain
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."— Mark Twain
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."— Mary Kay Ash
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."— Pablo Picasso
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"— Richard Bach
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."— Albert Einstein
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."— Anatole France
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."— Henry Miller
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."— Joan Didion
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose."— Mary Pickford
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."— Mahatma Gandhi
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think."— Murray Gell-Mann
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."— Og Mandino
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."— Og Mandino
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."— Sai Baba
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."— Victor Hugo
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."— Wayne Dyer
"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."— Wayne Dyer
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."— Albert Einstein
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."— Anaïs Nin
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."— Benjamin Franklin
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."— Carl Sagan
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."— Chuck Norris
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life."— Eckhart Tolle
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."— Edgar Allan Poe
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."— Leonardo da Vinci
"Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart."— Marcus Aurelius
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."— Mark Twain
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."— Napoleon
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."— Napoleon
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it."— Norman Cousins
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."— Tony Robbins
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."— Wayne Dyer
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."— Benjamin Disraeli
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."— E. E. Cummings
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."— Edgar Allan Poe
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."— Friedrich Nietzsche
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them."— Man Ray
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."— Stephen Covey
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."— Winston Churchill
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever."— Amy Tan
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."— Dr. Seuss
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."— Hermann Hesse
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."— John Berry
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."— John Lubbock
"I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs."— Lin Yutang
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."— Pema Chödrön
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."— Richard Bach
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."— Samuel Beckett
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."— Albert Einstein
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."— Bo Jackson
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched."— Miguel de Cervantes
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."— Chuck Swindoll
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."— Dorothy Thompson
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others."— Harriet Lerner
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."— Henry David Thoreau
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."— Mother Teresa
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."— Napoleon Hill
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."— Ovid
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."— Philip Sidney
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."— Socrates
"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest."— Sri Chinmoy
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment."— Tony Robbins
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."— Voltaire
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."— William James
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."— Aldous Huxley
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."— Calvin Coolidge
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."— Zhuang Zhou
"More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength."— Dalai Lama
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."— Helen Keller
"Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!"— John Pierrakos
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."— Léon Blum
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."— Mother Teresa
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."— Nora Roberts
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."— Pablo Picasso
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."— Thomas Carlyle
"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way."— Wayne Dyer
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."— Winston Churchill
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."— Baltasar Gracián
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."— Bruce Lee
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."— Carl Jung
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."— Coco Chanel
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."— Desmond Tutu
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."— Edith Wharton
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."— Hugh Miller
"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy."— Jane Roberts
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."— John Muir
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."— Leo Tolstoy
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."— Leonardo da Vinci
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."— Louis Pasteur
"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life."— Mark Twain
"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal."— Publilius Syrus
"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them."— Tom Krause
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."— Wayne Dyer
"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn."— Yogi Berra
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."— Aristotle
"Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not."— Dhammapada
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"— George Eliot
"Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."— Helen Keller
"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."— John Steinbeck
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."— John Wooden
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."— Marcel Proust
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."— Marie Curie
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."— Muriel Rukeyser
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."— Plato
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer."— Robert Graves
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose."— Simone Weil
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."— Thomas Jefferson
"Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know."— William Shakespeare
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."— Albert Einstein
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."— Charlotte Brontë
"If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace."— Dalai Lama
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."— Helen Keller
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."— James Oppenheim
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."— Oprah Winfrey
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."— Oscar Wilde
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."— Richard Bach
"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."— Wayne Dyer
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."— Winston Churchill
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."— Albert Camus
"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live."— Bertrand Russell
"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."— Dalai Lama
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."— Helen Keller
"Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."— Paavo Nurmi
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."— Pablo Picasso
"Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites."— Richard Garriott
"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently."— William Arthur Ward
"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."— A. Powell Davies
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."— John Powell
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."— Lou Holtz
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can."— Michael Korda
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."— Sam Keen
"Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."— Arthur Conan Doyle
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept responsibility for changing them."— Denis Waitley
"Don't ruin the present with the ruined past."— Ellen Gilchrist
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."— Joseph Campbell
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."— Judy Garland
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."— René Descartes
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."— Seneca the Younger
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."— Sigmund Freud
"To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith."— W. H. Auden
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."— Albert Schweitzer
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him."— Albert Schweitzer
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."— Booker T. Washington
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."— Brian Tracy
"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us."— Daisaku Ikeda
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply!"— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one."— John Lennon
"I believe that every person is born with talent."— Maya Angelou
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."— Plato
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."— Robert Louis Stevenson
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."— Voltaire
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."— Walt Whitman
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."— Benjamin Disraeli
"If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time."— Edith Wharton
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."— Epictetus
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."— Galileo Galilei
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."— George Sand
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."— John Dewey
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work."— John Lubbock
"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
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."— Louisa May Alcott
"The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer..."— Moncure D. Conway
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."— Oscar Wilde
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."— Seneca the Younger
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."— Sophocles
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."— Uta Hagen
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."— William James
"Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."— William Butler Yeats
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."— Alexis Carrel
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."— Carl Jung
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."— Doug Larson
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has."— Epictetus
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."— Napoleon Hill
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."— Rita Mae Brown
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance."— Thomas Carlyle
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."— Aristotle
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."— Immanuel Kant
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."— J. Willard Marriott
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world."— Jane Addams
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."— Margaret Mead
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."— Peter Abelard
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."— Richard Whately
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."— Rumi
"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."— Václav Havel
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."— Walter Inglis Anderson
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."— Zig Ziglar
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."— Abraham Lincoln
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."— Zig Ziglar
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others."— Anne Lindbergh
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."— Aristotle
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."— Blaise Pascal
"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."— Brian Tracy
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."— Bruce Lee
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."— Charles Darwin
"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."— Dalai Lama
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."— George Bernard Shaw
"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."— George Orwell
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."— George Washington
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."— Janis Joplin
"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."— Napoleon Hill
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."— Oprah Winfrey
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens."— Pema Chödrön
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."— Peter Drucker
"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."— Robert Louis Stevenson
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."— Tony Robbins
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."— William James
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."— Anatole France
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."— Aristotle
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."— Colette
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."— Etty Hillesum
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts."— John Junor
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."— Ovid
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement."— Ralph Marston
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."— Dalai Lama
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light."— Dorothy Thompson
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."— John F. Kennedy
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."— Marcus Aurelius
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."— Mortimer J. Adler
"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."— Dalai Lama
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education."— Thomas Carlyle
"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."— Walt Disney
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."— Albert Einstein
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own."— Benjamin Disraeli
"No day in which you learn something is a complete loss."— David Eddings
"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."— Katherine Mansfield
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."— Marie Curie
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."— Napoleon
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."— Og Mandino
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."— Ovid
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."— Plutarch
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."— Søren Kierkegaard
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."— Theodore H. White
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."— Thomas Edison
"Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves."— William Hazlitt
"We know what we are but know not what we may be."— William Shakespeare
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind."— Albert Schweitzer
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."— William Ellery Channing
"Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness."— Dalai Lama
"By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm."— Dalai Lama
"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it."— Marcus Aurelius
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself."— Norman Vincent Peale
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."— William Shakespeare
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."— Abraham Lincoln
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."— Albert Einstein
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."— Anatole France
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart."— Blaise Pascal
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress."— Elizabeth Montagu
"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe."— Gordon Hinckley
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."— Honoré de Balzac
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."— J. M. Barrie
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."— Margaret Fuller
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."— Og Mandino
"Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with."— Peter Elbow
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."— Richard Bach
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."— Wayne Dyer
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."— Abraham Lincoln
"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise."— Anne Brontë
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."— Alexander Chalmers
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."— Henry James
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."— John Marshall
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."— Loretta Young
"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."— Mark Twain
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process."— Oprah Winfrey
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."— Richard Bach
"What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be."— Sai Baba
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds."— Albert Einstein
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."— Carl Jung
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."— Dalai Lama
"Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have."— Doris Mortman
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."— Joe Paterno
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."— Marian Wright Edelman
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve."— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser."— Paulo Coelho
"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."— Thomas Edison
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."— Thornton Wilder
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."— William Burroughs
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."— William Shakespeare
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."— Albert Einstein
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."— Aristotle
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."— Bernadette Devlin
"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."— David McCullough
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."— Denis Waitley
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."— Eckhart Tolle
"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."— Epictetus
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own."— Jessamyn West
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."— Lucille Ball
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."— Mother Teresa
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."— Peter Drucker
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."— Voltaire
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."— William Sloane Coffin
"I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will."— Joseph Stalin
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."— Marcus Aurelius
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them."— Richard Bach
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."— William Arthur Ward
"The price of greatness is responsibility."— Winston Churchill
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."— A. A. Milne
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."— Albert Einstein
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."— Betty Friedan
"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life."— Cynthia Ozick
"Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength."— Dalai Lama
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."— Epictetus
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."— Epictetus
"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring."— François de La Rochefoucauld
"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought."— Henri Bergson
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."— Jawaharlal Nehru
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."— John Adams
"Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."— John Lennon
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."— Jonas Salk
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."— Kahlil Gibran
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."— Plato
"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong."— Richard Needham
"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be."— Shakti Gawain
"Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man."— Sophocles
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."— Thomas Edison
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."— Wayne Dyer
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination."— John Dewey
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world."— Margaret Laurence
"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."— Og Mandino
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."— Rumi
"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive."— Wayne Dyer
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."— Abraham Lincoln
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."— Albert Einstein
"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."— Albert Einstein
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."— Anne Frank
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed."— Zhuang Zhou
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude."— Colin Powell
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."— Doris Mortman
"Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are."— Forrest Church
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."— Henry Ford
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."— Lena Horne
"Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."— Oprah Winfrey
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly."— Richard Bach
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention."— Rudolf Arnheim
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."— Sam Rayburn
"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out."— Albert Camus
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."— Albert Camus
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more"— Tony Robbins
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."— Brian Tracy
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."— Edward Gibbon
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."— Marcus Aurelius
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."— Napoleon
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."— Tony Robbins
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it."— W. Clement Stone
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."— William Shakespeare
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."— Albert Einstein
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."— Alexander Pope
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."— Blaise Pascal
"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."— Brian Tracy
"Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could."— Charles Dickens
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."— Confucius
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it."— Gustave Flaubert
"A thing well said will be wit in all languages."— John Dryden
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."— Lucille Ball
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."— Paul Tillich
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."— Plutarch
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."— Robert Fulghum
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."— Abraham Maslow
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."— Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."— Albert Einstein
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."— Ben Stein
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."— Coco Chanel
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."— Douglas Adams
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."— Jean de La Fontaine
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."— Laurence J. Peter
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."— Robert F. Kennedy
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."— Simone de Beauvoir
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."— Thomas Aquinas
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."— Wayne Dyer
"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."— Alan Cohen
"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."— Ambrose Bierce
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."— Carl Jung
"Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes."— Dalai Lama
"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket."— Doug Horton
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"— George S. Patton
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."— Henry David Thoreau
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."— Napoleon Hill
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."— Oscar Wilde
"Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition."— Plotinus
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."— Richard Bach
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."— Henry James
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."— Marie Curie
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."— Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open."— Thomas Dewar
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity."— Voltaire
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."— Audre Lorde
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."— Bruce Lee
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."— Dale Carnegie
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."— Eleanor Roosevelt
"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities."— Bruce Lee
"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances."— Daisaku Ikeda
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade."— Dale Carnegie
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."— E. M. Forster
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."— Edmund Burke
"All serious daring starts from within."— Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."— Henry J. Kaiser
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."— John Ruskin
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable."— Kathleen Norris
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."— Marcus Aurelius
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."— Marcus Aurelius
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."— Mother Teresa
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."— Richard Bach
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."— Robert M. Pirsig
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."— Rumi
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."— Samuel Johnson
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"— Sun Tzu
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."— Victor Hugo
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."— Winston Churchill
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."— Confucius
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."— Niels Bohr
"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."— Seneca the Younger
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."— Sun Tzu
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."— Thomas Paine
"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."— Tony Robbins
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."— Winston Churchill
"Well done is better than well said."— Benjamin Franklin
"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work."— Dalai Lama
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."— Ernest Hemingway
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."— Sam Levenson
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."— Lou Holtz
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."— Louise Hay
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."— Napoleon Hill
"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger."— Richard Bach
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."— Thomas Jefferson
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."— Albert Schweitzer
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."— Benjamin Haydon
"As you think, so shall you become."— Bruce Lee
