Quotes
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
James Allen
"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."
James Allen
"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
James Allen
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Choose a life that is most useful and habit will make it the most agreeable."
Sir Francis Bacon
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
Dorothea Brande
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
Pearl Buck
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Buddha
"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
Dr. David M. Burns
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."
Dr. David M. Burns
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."
Daniel H. Burnham
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
Albert Camus
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
Dale Carnegie
"Man is what he believes."
Anton Chekhov
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
Sir Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Sir Winston Churchill
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Confucius
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
John Dewey
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
Denis Diderot
"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true."
Walt Disney
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy."
Walt Disney
"Everything comes if a man will only wait."
Benjamin Disraeli
"In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas A. Edison
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison
"One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day."
Albert Einstein
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
George Eliot
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
Robert Fritz
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"As soon as you to trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If children grew up according to early indications, we would have nothing but geniuses."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
James Gordon, M.D.
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
William Hazlitt
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."
Napoleon Hill
"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
Napoleon Hill
"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it."
Napoleon Hill
"Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
Napoleon Hill
"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. "
Lou Holtz
"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
Victor Hugo
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
Victor Hugo
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
William James
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
William James
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."
Michael Jordan
"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
John F. Kennedy
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
John F. Kennedy
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."
Karl Kraus
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
Abraham Lincoln
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
John Locke
"The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes."
Randy K. Milholland
"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
"We must be the epitome - the embodiment - of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become."
Earl Nightingale
"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides."
John H. Patterson
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow."
Norman Vincent Peale
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."
Anna Quindlen
"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
Ronald Reagan
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."
Ronald Reagan
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
Tony Robbins
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
Tony Robbins
"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
Tony Robbins
"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."
Tony Robbins
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
Tony Robbins
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."
David Rockefeller
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"You always pass failure on the way to success."
Mickey Rooney
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. "
Jim Rohn
"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."
Jim Rohn
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
George Sand
"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
Albert Schweitzer
"Strong reasons make strong actions."
William Shakespeare
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
W. Clement Stone
"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."
W. Clement Stone
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
Mother Teresa
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
Mother Teresa
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Oscar Wilde
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
Oprah Winfrey
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
Oprah Winfrey
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
Zig Ziglar
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
Unknown
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Unknown
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Unknown
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