Gerald Good on thankfulness.
"If you really want to turn your life around try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
Gerald Good
Saint Augustine on work.
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Augustine of Hippo)
American entrepreneur Jim Rohn on greatness.
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."
Emanuel James "Jim" Rohn
African-American author and poet Maya Angelou on giving.
"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
Dr. Maya Angelou
American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on capability.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American philanthropist W. Clement Stone on sharing.
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."
William Clement Stone
American historian Charles Kendall Adams on success.
"No person ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
Charles Kendall Adams
Author Mark Twain
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
Author and Motivational Speaker Wayne Dyer
"We're all on the same path. We're just on different places along that path."
Wayne Dyer
Author William Arthur Ward on gratitude.
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward
Zig Ziglar on winning.
"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Zig Ziglar
Robert Brault on gratitude.
"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude."
Robert Brault
Astronaut James Lovell on problems.
"Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job."
James A. Lovell
American physicist Albert Einstein on value.
"If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."
Albert Einstein
Dorothy Height on greatness.
"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."
Dorothy Height
Darwin P. Kingsley on Limitations
You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."
Darwin P. Kingsley
French naturalist Georges-Louise Leclerc on patience.
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
British politician William Hague on discipline.
"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
William Jefferson Hague FRSL MP
American businessman Arnold Glasgow on leadership.
"One of the true tests of leadership is to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
Arnold H. Glasgow
Tony Robbins
"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."
Tony Robbins
African-American author Maya Angelou on giving.
"Sometimes a small thing you do can mean everything in another person's life. When you learn, teach. When you get, give."
Dr. Maya Angelou
Author Alan Lakein on time.
"Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life."
Alan Lakein
American football coach and television commentator Mike Ditka on discipline.
"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
Michael Keller Ditka
Tony Robbins on taking action.
"In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
Anthony Robbins
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on success.
"It's a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
German theologian Albert Schweitzer on thanks.
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
Albert Schweitzer, OM
American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox on determination.
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
German philosopher Meister Eckhart
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."
Meister Eckhart
American Hall of Fame baseball player Babe Ruth on failure.
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
Oprah Winfrey on being thankful
"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
William J. H. Boetcker on success
"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."
William J. H. Boetcker
English historian James Anthony Froude on character.
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
James Anthony Froude
A quote on the law of attraction.
"Life can and should be phenomenal...and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction."
From the movie "The Secret"
On purpose.
"It doesn't matter where you were born as much as it matters why you were born."
Anonymous
German theologian Meister Eckhart on will.
"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
Eckhart von Hochheim O.P.
Henry Ford on pushing through.
"There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."
Henry Ford
American pianist Liberace on believing in yourself.
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself."
Liberace
Television broadcaster and football coach Jimmy Johnson on being extraordinary.
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that 'little extra'."
Jimmy Johnson
American basketball coach John Wooden on doing.
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Robert Wooden
Zig Ziglar on what sincere words can do.
"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life."
Zig Ziglar
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy on greatness.
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
Leo Tolstoy
President Thomas Jefferson on knowledge.
"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
President Thomas Jefferson
Napoleon Hill
"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."
Napoleon Hill
Life Coach Tony Robbins on luck.
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
Tony Robbins
American spiritualist Ernest Holmes on abundance.
"Fast from all ideas of lack and feast on the idea of abundance."
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes
Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson
"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wayne Dyer on abundance.
"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
Wayne Dyer
Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Winston S. Churchill
Author Steve Maraboli
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
Steve Maraboli
Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson on being thankful.
"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
American author Helen Keller on beauty.
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
Helen Adams Keller
The Dalai Lama on goodness.
"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."
Dalai Lama
American entertainer Frank Sinatra on success.
"The best revenge is massive success."
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra
Retired general Pat Gamble on being better.
"Don't get even. Get better."
General Patrick K. Gamble, U.S. Air Force (retired)
American philosopher William James on attitude.
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James
On preparing for the future.
"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."
Anonymous
Gandhi on revenge.
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
American cartoonist Don Wilder on excuses.
"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."
Don Wilder
Author Beverly Adamo on choices.
"It's not about time, it's about choices. How are you spending your choices?"
Beverly Adamo
Religious leader John Groberg on inspiration.
"We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of."
John Holbrook Groberg
American author and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson on success.
"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
English naturalist Charles Darwin on value.
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS
American novelist Frank Herbert on discipline.
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr.
Indian nationalist leader Gandhi on courage.
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
On the little things.
"Never get tired of doing little things for others; sometimes those little things occupy the biggest parts of their hearts."
Anonymous
President Jefferson on ideas.
"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones, to believe nothing than to believe what is wrong."
President Thomas Jefferson
Bob Proctor on richness.
“Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.”
Bob Proctor
On pain.
"There are two types of pain in this world. Pain that hurts you, and pain that changes your soul."
Anonymous
Author Joseph Murphy on being thankful.
"A thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe."
Joseph Murphy
American investor Robert Kiyosaki on the future.
"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."
Robert Toru Kiyosaki
English nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale on success.
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave nor took any excuse."
Florence Nightingale
John C. Maxwell on Success
"Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped."
John C. Maxwell
American actress Marilyn Monroe on poise.
"Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown."
Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe)
American psychologist Abraham Maslow on being.
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
Dr. Abraham Maslow
American novelist James Baldwin on facing change.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
John Maxwell on success.
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” John Maxwell
Hong Kong-American martial artist and director Bruce Lee on limits.
"There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
(李小龍 | Lee Jun-fan) Bruce Lee
American author and humorist Mark Twain on life.
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
On thankfulness.
"No matter how bad you think your life, wake up each day and be thankful for what you have. Someone somewhere is fighting just to survive."
Anonymous
On settling.
"The main difference you'll usually find between you and someone you envy, is that you settle for less."
Anonymous
French novelist Marcel Proust on being grateful.
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they're the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on judging.
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we’ve done."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American writer Ambrose Redmoon on courage.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
James Neil Hollingworth (Ambrose Redmoon)
Indian spiritual leader Sai Baba on service.
"No joy can equal the joy of serving others."
Śri Sathya Sai Baba
Australian writer and producer Rhonda Byrne on attraction.
"We are like magnets - like attracts like. You become AND attract what you think."
Rhonda Byrne
American writer Robert Brault on gratitude.
"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed; it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude."
Robert Brault
English nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale on excuses.
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC
Maya Angelou on priorities.
"Never make a priority out of anyone that only makes you an option."
Maya Angelou
Conrad Hilton on success.
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving; they make mistakes, but they do not quit."
Conrad Hilton
Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is another’s fault if he is ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson on belief.
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
African-American entrepreneur and media personality Oprah Winfrey on being thankful.
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have you will never ever have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
Peace Pilgrim
"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. That criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?"
Peace Pilgrim
American preacher Karl Reiland on happiness.
"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy."
Rev. Karl Reiland
Frank Clark
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing life is made of little things."
Frank A. Clark
James Russel Miller on doing good.
"Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good."
James Russel Miller
Sir Winston Churchill on excellence.
"Excellence is caring more than others think is wise. Risking more than others think is safe. Dreaming more than others think is practical. Expecting more than others think is possible."
Sir Winston Churchill
Oswald Chambers
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."
Oswald Chambers
English writer John Bunyan on kindness.
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
John Bunyan
American pastor Robert H. Schuller on problems.
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
Rev. Dr. Robert H. Schuller
American author Neale Donald Walsch on life.
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Neale Donald Walsch
American entertainer and actor Frank Sinatra on success.
"The best revenge is massive success."
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra
Aristotle on excellence
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
English novelist Charles Dickens on helpfulness.
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
Charles John Huffam Dickens
English historian Thomas Arnold on ability.
"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability -- it's energy."
Thomas Arnold
American author Patti Thor on success.
"It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people."
Patti Thor
American author H. Jackson Brown on giving.
"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
President Jefferson on truth.
"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose whole mind is filled with falsehoods and terrors."
President Thomas Jefferson
Alan Cohen on appreciation.
"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
Author Jonathan Kozol on picking battles.
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
Jonathan Kozol
Alfred North Whitehead
"No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
Alfred North Whitehead
On being your own critic.
"Many fear competition or critique from others. But the biggest critic should be the person in the mirror."
Anonymous
American poet Bayard Taylor on opportunity.
"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him."
Bayard Taylor
Jo Blackwell-Preston on who to surround yourself with
"Don’t you dare for one more second surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are."
Jo Blackwell-Preston
President Abraham Lincoln on discouragement.
"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
President Abraham Lincoln
German sociologist Theodor Adorno on self-discipline.
"Work while you work, play while you play -- this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
Theodor W. Adorno
Christopher Morley on persistence.
“Big shots are only little shots who kept shooting.”
Christopher Morley
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on time
"Don’t ever say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox on life.
"It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song
But the man worth while is one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A quote on choosing your thoughts.
"Choose your thoughts carefully...you are the masterpiece of your life."
From the movie "The Secret"
Leonardo da Vinci
"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
American theologian Ernest Holmes on mindfulness.
"If nothing goes forth from me that can hurt, then nothing can return to me that can harm."
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes
Henry Ford on staying young.
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
Henry Ford
Roman philosopher Cicero on service.
"Non nobis solum nati sumus."
("Not for ourselves alone are we born.")
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Greek philosopher Epicurus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurus
Benjamin Franklin on health and hope.
"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."
Benjamin Franklin
Australian writer and producer Rhonda Byrne
"People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same."
Rhonda Byrne
Gandhi on service.
"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Newt Gingrich on perseverance.
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Newt Gingrich
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw on belief.
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
American poet John Holmes on helpfulness.
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
John Albert Holmes, Jr.
Scottish writer Henry Drummond on love.
"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
Henry Drummond
American philanthropist W. Clement Stone
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."
W. Clement Stone
English writer Samuel Johnson on attitude.
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Frank Clark
"If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely going to be thankful for what he’s going to get."
Frank A. Clark
South African politician Nelson Mandela on life.
"There is no passion to be found in playing small -- settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Robert Half, founder of Robert Half International, on expectations.
"Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a more than you'd expect."
Robert Half
Author Carl Bard on new endings.
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
Carl Bard
Jim Rohn on excuses.
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."
Jim Rohn
American writer Mark Houlahan on life.
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then being by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page."
Mark Houlahan
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson on destiny.
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frank Clark on being thankful.
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."
Frank A. Clark
Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran on generosity.
"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
جبران خليل جبران (Gibran Khalil Gibran)
A quote on affirmative thoughts.
"An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one."
From the movie "The Secret"
American author Robert Collier on belief.
"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
Robert Collier
Greek philosopher Epictetus on difficulty.
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Ἐπίκτητος (Epictetus)
American philosopher Mortimer Adler on discipline.
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
Mortimer J. Adler
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Remember that every person you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
French novelist Alphonse Karr
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."
Alphonse Karr
Arthur Ashe on being resourceful.
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
Arthur Ashe
On time.
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours there were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Theresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
Anonymous
Martin Luther King Jr. on work.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca on being grateful.
"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On happiness.
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”
Anonymous
Napoleon Hill
"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
Napoleon Hill
English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray on excellence.
"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
William Makepeace Thackeray
African-American author Alice Walker on power.
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Malsenior Walker
American author Zig Ziglar on criticism.
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember -- the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar
American clergyman Henry Ward Beecher on standards.
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself -- and be lenient to everybody else."
Henry Ward Beecher
Canadian entrepreneur Brian Tracy on success.
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"
Brian Tracy
Computer scientist Alan Kay on the future.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay
President Abraham Lincoln on enemies
“President Lincoln, you need to destroy your enemies.” “Madame, when I make my enemies my friend, have I not destroyed my enemies?”
Abraham Lincoln
American entrepreneur E. Joseph Cossman on memory.
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."
E. Joseph Cossman
French novelist Marcel Proust on being grateful
"Let us be grateful to those that make us happy; they are the charming gardeners that make our soul blossom."
Marcel Proust
Nido Qubein on circumstances.
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
Nido Qubein
American poet Edward Estlin "E.E." Cummings on courage.
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
e.e. cummings
Dennis Waitley
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”
Dennis Waitley
Author Dillon Burroughs on living.
“Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.”
Dillon Burroughs
Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran on service.
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
جبران خليل جبران (Gibran Khalil Gibran)
On being thankful.
"No matter how you think your life is, wake up each day and be thankful for what you have. Someone somewhere is fighting just to survive."
Anonymous
Nobel-prize winning physicist Albert Einstein on thought.
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein
French-Algerian author Albert Camus on generosity.
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
American business executive Jack Welch on leadership.
"A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization not as it is, but as it should be."
Jack Welch
On success.
"Успех и остальные не спят вместе."
("Success and rest don't sleep together.")
Russian proverb.
American author and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American industrialist Henry Ford on limitations.
"There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can."
Henry Ford
English writer Izaak Walton
"God had two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."
Izaak Walton
On success and failure.
"So many people can be responsible for your success, but only you are responsible for your failure."
Anonymous
American philosopher William James on change.
"To change one's life: start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions."
William James
Sonny Perdue on greatness.
"You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement."
Sonny Perdue
Author Marianne Williamson on abundance.
"The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts."
Marianne Williamson
American writer Cecil Selig on envy.
"When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there."
Cecil Selig
Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi on excellence.
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
Vince Lombardi
Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran on pride.
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
جبران خليل جبران (Gibran Khalil Gibran)
American inventor Charles Kettering on failure.
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
Charles Franklin Kettering
Rand Beers on freedom.
"The precondition to freedom is security."
Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Rand Beers
Steve Maraboli on being yourself.
“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”
Steve Maraboli
American politician J. Harold Wilkins on optimism.
"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."
J. Harold Wilkins
Mother Theresa on helpfulness.
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you."
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.
American author and entrepreneur Bo Bennett on discipline.
"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself."
Robert "Bo" Bennett
Albert Einstein on thinking.
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Albert Einstein
Ralph Marston
"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find you have more of it."
Ralph Marston
On happiness, health, and being wise.
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man happy, healthy and wise." Anonymous
Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar on integrity.
"The most important persuasive tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar
Mother Theresa on giving.
"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
The Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.
David Hawkins on thoughts.
"Every loving or compassionate thought outweighs many thousands of negative thoughts held by others."
Dr. David Hawkins
Albert Einstein on imagination.
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
Buddha
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
Buddha
African-American boxer Mohammed Ali on service.
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali
English poet William S. Gilbert on success.
"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Author Peter Drucker on knowledge.
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes." Peter Drucker
Professor David Hawkins on self.
"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are."
Dr. David Hawkins
Corrie ten Boom on worrying.
“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie ten Boom
American author Mary Anne Ramacher on light.
"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
Mary Anne Ramacher
Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran on giving.
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
جبران خليل جبران (Gibran Khalil Gibran)
American author Stephen Covey on decisions.
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Rhonda Byrne on thoughts
"Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember."
Rhonda Byrne
Pakistani politician Muhammad Ali Jinnah on discipline.
"With faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."
محمد علی جناح | મુહમ્મદ અલી જિન્નાહ | Muhammad Ali Jinnah
American football coach George Halas on regret.
"Nobody has ever given their best...and regretted it."
George Stanley Halas, Sr.
Sir Winston Churchill on success.
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
Eleanor Roosevelt on doing what your heart says
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gilbert K. Chesterton on tolerance.
“Tolerance is the virtue of a man without conviction.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marcus Tullius Cicero on gratitude.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Zig Ziglar on being a winner.
"If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."
Zig Ziglar
English naturalist Charles Darwin on change.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS
American author William Feather on discipline.
"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will not do it for us."
William A. Feather
American writer Dale Carnegie on giving.
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Businessman and motivational speaker Nido Quebin on circumstances.
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
Dr. Nido R. Quebin
American inventor Thomas Edison on capability.
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Alva Edison
Scottish teacher Oswald Chambers on faith.
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."
Oswald Chambers
Margaret Thatcher
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
Margaret Thatcher
Canadian entrepreneur Brian Tracy on moving forward
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."
Brian Tracy
Francis of Assisi
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Francis of Assisi
Nido Qubein on circumstances.
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
Nido Qubein
Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
American author Mary Morrissey on motivation.
"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special persona materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."
Mary Manin Morrissey
On excuses.
“You will get what you want when you stop making excuses on why you don’t have it.”
Anonymous
A quote on being positive.
"Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc."
From the movie "The Secret"
American author Jim Rohn on discipline.
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
Emanuel James "Jim" Rohn
American author Steve Maraboli on generosity.
"Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."
Dr. Steve Maraboli
American author John Harrigan on love.
"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."
John Harrigan
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on happiness.
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
President Kennedy on freedom.
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
President John F. Kennedy
Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa on pain.
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
宮沢 賢治 (Miyazawa Kenji)
President Calvin Coolidge on persistence.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
President Calvin Coolidge
Maya Angelou on giving
"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
Maya Angelou
On being better.
"It's not about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you were yesterday."
Anonymous
D. Elton Trueblood
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
D. Elton Trueblood
American journalist Sydney Harris on life.
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
Sydney J. Harris
On success.
"Success isn't just what you accomplish in your life. It's what you inspire others to do."
Anonymous
American preacher Edwin Hubbell Chapin on action.
"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Napoleon on setting goals.
"Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind."
Napoleon
American author Napoleon Hill on thoughts.
"Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life."
Napoleon Hill
American singer-songwriter Willie Nelson on positivity.
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
Willie Hugh Nelson
American pastor Joel Osteen on faith.
"Faith activates God -- fear activates the Enemy."
Joel Scott Osteen
Author Max Lucado on faith.
"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."
Max Lucado
Joe Vitale on letting go.
“The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren’t getting the results we seek.”
Joe Vitale
African-American author Maya Angelou on belief.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Dr. Maya Angelou
Napoleon Hill on helping others.
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
Napoleon Hill
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli on success.
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
On winning.
"It's not the winning that brings the noise, it's the noise that brings the winning."
Anonymous
Author Napoleon Hill on responsibility.
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
Napoleon Hill
Martin Luther King on living.
"Our lives begin and end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joe Vitale on seizing the opportunity.
"The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay. Don't second-guess. Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there… ACT. That’s your job. And that’s all you have to do."
Joe Vitale
American author Washington Irving on thought.
"Great minds have purpose; others have wishes. LIttle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving
American author Jim Rohn on success.
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
Jim Rohn
On good character.
"People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them."
Anonymous
English writer Izaak Walton on being thankful.
"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and in the other in a meek and thankful heart."
Izaak Walton
American author Jack Canfield on confidence
"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.”
Jack Canfield
Lawrence D. Bell
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
Lawrence D. Bell
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
American author Norman Vincent Peale on belief.
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
American author Les Brown on limitations.
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
Leslie Calvin "Les" Brown
American actress Katharine Hepburn on discipline.
"Without discipline there's no life at all."
Katharine Hepburn
Raheel Farooq on gratitude.
"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else."
Raheel Farooq
President Abraham Lincoln on waiting.
"Thigns may come to those who only wait, but only what's left by those who hustle."
President Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon Hill
"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."
Napoleon Hill
President Kennedy on gratitude.
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
President John F. Kennedy
American philosopher William James on belief.
"Believe that life if worth living and your belief will help create that fact."
William James
John Seymour on the impossible.
"As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not."
John Seymour
American author Jim Rohn on giving.
"Giving is better than receiving, because giving starts the receiving process."
Emanuel James "Jim" Rohn
Author Jack Canfield on failure.
"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."
Jack Canfield
President Theodore Roosevelt on self-discipline.
"With self-discipline anything is possible."
President Theodore Roosevelt
Caterina Fake
“Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Caterina Fake
A quote on your thoughts and feelings.
"What you focus on with your thoughts and feelings is what you attract into your experience."
From the movie "The Secret"
On peace
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict."
Anonymous
American author Robert Brault on the little things.
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you many look back and realize they were the big things."
Robert Brault
British philosopher James Allen on thanks.
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
James Allen
American author Robert Collier on the mind.
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”
Robert Collier
Author William Ward
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, Thank you?"
William Ward
Charles Simmons on greatness.
"True greatness consists in being great in little things."
Charles Simmons
Astronaut Jim Lovell on problems.
"Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job."
Captain James Arthur "Jim" Lovell, Jr., U.S. Navy (retired)
American general George S. Patton on discipline.
"There is only one sort of discipline: perfect discipline."
General George Smith Patton, Jr., U.S. Army
American author Joel Osteen on abundance.
"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance."
Joel Scott Osteen
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, on giving.
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco
Saint Augustine
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
Saint Augustine
Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca on discipline.
"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Australian writer and producer Rhonda Byrne on thoughts.
"Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation."
Rhonda Byrne
Abraham Joshua Heschel on discipline.
"Self-respect is the root of discipline. The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Artist and entrepreneur Vivian Greene on life.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."
Vivian Greene
On what's important.
"If it's important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse."
Anonymous
John Demartini on mastering life.
"When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound, clear and louder than the opinions on the outside, you’ve mastered your life."
Dr. John Demartini
Brandon Sanderson on prioritizing.
“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
Brandon Sanderson
Sir Winston Churchill on giving.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill
Henry David Thoreau
“It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?”
Henry David Thoreau
Television personality Dr. Phil McGraw on success.
"Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it."
Dr. Phil McGraw
Lao Tzu on kindness.
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
Lao Tzu
Coco Chanel
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel
Sir Winston Churchill on giving.
"We make a living by what we get. We make as life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill
British author and veteran Frank Clark on being thankful.
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."
Frank Clark
On miracles.
"Il n'y a pas de miracles pour ceux qui n'ont aucun foi en eux."
("There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.")
French proverb.
German theologian Meister Eckhart on thanks.
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."
Eckhart von Hochheim O.P.
Khalil Gibran on generosity.
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
Khalil Gibran
American actor Richard Kline on preparation.
"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control."
Richard Kline
Dr. John F. Demartini on our thoughts.
"Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about."
Dr. John F. Demartini
French novelist Alphonse Karr on thanks.
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
On greatness.
"Greatness is not something to strive for; it's something to remember that we already are."
Anonymous
Rudyard Kipling
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."
Rudyard Kipling
British author David Gemmell on strength.
"A warrior...feeds his body well. He trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul."
David Andrew Gemmell
Martin Luther
"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
Martin Luther
American golfer Ken Venturi on belief.
"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be."
Kenneth Paul Venturi
American clergyman Henry Ward Beecher on thankfulness.
"The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron,m so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"
Henry Ward Beecher