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
Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial
and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and
success achieved.
~ Helen Keller
Dream
lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the
promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of
what you shall at last unveil.
~ James Allen
Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
~ Danielle Fotopoulis
Failure
should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not
defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something
we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
~ Denis Waitley
Feeling
grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually
attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your
life.
~ Christiane Northrup
Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you
can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high
a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I
am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse
to do something that I can do.
~ Helen Keller
I
expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I
can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it
now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
~ Stephen Grellet
If
everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become
people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and
obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine
forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field
of endeavor, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are
advancing towards success and victory in life.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
~ Jenny Craig
Let
us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope,
assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always
give something.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If
one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Taking
action is how you GIVE your gift and live a life of true service to
yourself and others. And that doesn't mean that your life's work has to
be something that seems grand and noble. The real key to being of
service and living your purpose is simply to do what you LOVE to do
whatever it may be.
~ Rebecca Fine
The
credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive
valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and
spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of
high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while
daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The
most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way
out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,
and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just
happen.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The
most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to
do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the
process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
~ Napoleon Hill
To
laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even
one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak
sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest
vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of
realities. Your time is limited; don’t waste it living someone else's
life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other
people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinion drown your own
inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs
