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Fear of Failure
Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell D. Hillis
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles
I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.
John Keats
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
Publius Syrus
He that is down needs fear no fall.
John Bunyan
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
Tom Browne
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude
It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.
Alfred Mercier
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.
Sarah J. Hale
Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
Johann C. F. von Schiller
Failure teaches success.
Japanese Saying
Achievement
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
- Jim Rohn
The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now. - Guy Finley More...
When an idea reaches critical mass, there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. - Marianne Williamson
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado
The greatest inventions and accomplishments began as the flicker of an idea. This tiny flame was then fueled by desire and faith. Watch out for those tiny little ideas. You have the potential to turn them into great things. - Steve Brunkhorst More...
Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do. - Paul J. Meyer More...
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach More...
You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a fall.
- Rick Beneteau
If you’re not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!
- John C. Maxwell
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
- Nido Qubein
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. - Cherie Carter-Scott
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill
Human beings who leave hehind them no great achievements, but only a sequence of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives. - Charlotte Gray
Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement. - Nicole Haislett
Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. - Neil Eskelin
Motivation
You don't have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they do. - Mark Victor Hansen
True motivation comes from within - from the willingness to see a dream fulfilled - from the desire to leave the world better than you found it. - Steve Brunkhorst
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
- Nido Qubein
Success
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
- Mark Caine
Success is not measured by money or fame but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them. - Willie Stargell
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success. - Rick Beneteau.
There is more to success than reaching goals. People have accumulated vast fortunes only to live their final years unfulfilled and spiritually poor. Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living — an authentic joy that pulls us toward the next episode of our life's purpose.
- Steve Brunkhorst
Success is waking up in the morning, whoever you are, wherever you are, however old or young, and bounding out of bed because there's something out there you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at — something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again today.
- Whit Hobbs
Top Excellence
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. - Paul J. Meyer
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.
- Scout Cloud Lee
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. - Rusty Berkus
Excellence can be attained if you - care more than others think is wise - risk more than others think is safe - dream more than others think is practical - and expect more than others think is possible. - Anonymous
Vision and Faith
When the night is cloudy, I still believe in stars,
Even when the darkness blocks the light.
They're shining out like beacons on the other side of hope.
You can see them when you hold your heart just right.
- Selia Qynn
When you get to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
- Edward Teller
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
- Paul J. Meyer
Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action—without exception—manifests itself as an actual reality. - Ann Wigmore
Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. - Helen Keller
Vision enables you to glimpse into the future, to sense its hope and power, because you yourself are the means for that future's creation." - Sara Paddison
Hold a picture of yourself long enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it. - Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past. - A. R. Bernard
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the stream of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head. - Mark Twain
Look ahead; envision the beautiful blessings waiting on your distant shores. If you follow your personal stepping-stones with joy, love, faith and gratitude, the swiftest currents will not impede your journey. – Steve Brunkhorst More...
Strength and Courage
Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed - Max Lucado More...
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 - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. - Walt Disney
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." ...You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
There are deep, changeless connections inside of us that help us to manage change. Part of our inner self-care involves remembering those very loving people who will always inspire us with their values and courage. - Steve Brunkhorst
Courage is, with love, the greatest gift. We are, each of us, defeated many times - but if we accept defeat with cheerfulness, and learn from it, and try another way - then we will find fulfilment. - Rosanne Ambrose-Brown
Possibility and Opportunity
When these stars die, after the ageless darkness, more stars will come. Under them our future selves will be. When their stars die, yet more stars will come. This is unending, for the darkness itself is eternal, and while there is darkness, there will always be the possibility of stars. - A. Wohsedis
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
Opportunity is like a gold mine... if you don't pick up the shovel, then you will be living in someone else's shaft.
- Doug Firebaugh
Resolve and Commitment
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. - Mario Andretti
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
- H. Ross Perot
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. - Tony Robbins
Nature's Light
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature´s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir
The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. - Orison Swett Marden
I saw in the northwest first rise, in the rose-tinted horizon sky, a dark, narrow, craggy cloud, narrow and projecting as no cloud on earth, seen against the rose-tinted sky - the crest of a thunderstorm, beautiful and grand. - Henry David Thoreau
And after ten years spent in the heart of it, bathing in its glorious floods of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning among the icy peaks, the flush of alpenglow, and a thousand dashing waterfalls with their marvelous abundance of irised spray, it still seems to me above all others the Range of Light. - John Muir
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
- Max Lucado More...
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the heart of the child. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At first a small line of inconceivable splendor emerged on the horizon, which quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light. - Ann Radcliffe
A leaf, a sun-beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all, - that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, - the totality of nature...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contentment and Serenity
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made; our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid! - Robert Browning
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
- Sir John Lubbock
As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path...we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. - Sarah Ban Breathnach More...
The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance. The three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and exercising the memory. - Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
Kindness and Happiness
Having a heart for making a difference means that something or someone made a difference in my heart first. - Lee Wise More...
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville
That best portion of a good man s life? His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Og Mandino
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. - Mary Baker Eddy
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn
If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives. - Earl Nightingale
People are like stars... we all have our own special light that shines from within. Sometimes we find our light to be dim and we struggle to shine... but that is when we need the light shed from the other stars to help us light our path once again. A true light that comes from within, from our divine Maker is so brilliant that it penetrates into the souls of the other stars onto which it shines, leaving it's impression for eternity. Are you shining for someone today? - Unkhown
Love
One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world. - Eileen Caddy
There is authentic unconditional love in every instance of healing, allowing the heart's peace to flow toward others, and knowing that love is the only gift that can outshine fear and despair. - Steve Brunkhorst More...
As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
- Susan Jeffers
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes, seize it, don't miss it.
- Max Lucado More...
We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!
- Richard Bach
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
- Bruce Lee
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast.
It is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
I Corinthians 13:4
Only you can call me into aliveness. Each time you try to understand and because you really care, my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings. With your sensitivity and sympathy, and your power of understanding, you can breathe life into me. - Charles C. Finn
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
To love someone is beautiful. To love and admire someone is a beautiful privilege. - Lee Wise More...
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. - Marianne Williamson More...
There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
- Pearl Buck (1892-1973)
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955)
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
- Beverly Sills
Humor and Laughter
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
- George Barrell Cheever (1807-1890)
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. - Grenville Kleiser
Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel. - Eugene Lam
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Family and Relationships
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
- Lee Iacocca
What you have inherited from your father, you must earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back.
- William D. Tammeus
We played, we sang, we danced wildly. And we wandered quietly by the sea. I will always remember these days in summer — they are in my very being. You were, you are my daughter. My daughter, my joy. - Helen Thomson
If a child sees his parents day in and day out behaving with self-discipline, restraint, dignity and a capacity to order their own lives, then the child will come to feel in the deepest fibers of his being that this is the way to live. - M. Scott Peck
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. - Chinese Proverb
Daughters are more precious than gold. More precious than any inanimate thing, however beautiful. More precious than one's dreams, however glorious.... They are its hope. And yours to love. - Marion C. Garretty
Through the changing times and seasons of life, our golden relationships are not really lost. They are there to help guide us. They are as close as a thought. - Steve Brunkhorst More...
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. - Christina Rossetti
Spiritual Awareness
The sun shines not on us but in us....The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and; tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love. - John Muir
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
- St. John of the Cross
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
- Marianne Williamson More...
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Stephen R. Covey
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. - Oswald Chambers
It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. - Helen Keller
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Responsibility
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. - Woodrow Wilson
We have the divine gift of free will. We make conscious choices as spiritual beings who live in a physical world. Conscious choice is a gift that carries great responsibility.
- Steve Brunkhorst More...
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. - Allan Massie
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri Frederic Amiel
"Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not."--Don Miguel Ruiz
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”-- Emily Dickinson
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”-- John F. Kennedy
“Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.”-- Dean Koontz
"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."--Deepak Chopra
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." - George Bernard Shaw
“Prayer power is real. By putting it into action, we will be able to stay more constantly in higher awareness than ever before. If we can do that, the world will quickly change. “—James Redfield
“To know truth is to be truth.”—Unknown
“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” – Heraclitus
“Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.”—Eckhart Tolle
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”-- Anatole France
“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
“The courage to change is the measure of a real man/woman for only through change can one be enlightened and only through enlightenment can one enter the gates of heaven.”-- Micheal Teal
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”—Khalil Gibran
“What matters the most should never give way to what matters the least.”-- Unknown
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."--Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." -- Viktor Frankl
“Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.”-- Unknown
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”-- Albert Einstein
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”—Dale Carnegie
“You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.”—Neale Donald Walsch
“All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it’s true that there’s a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.”—Don Miguel Ruiz
“Feel that you have something to give because you do. Assume that the people you are to play with will show up because they will.” - Michael Bernard Beckwith
“I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.”—Gary Zukav
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." --Deepak Chopra
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up” --The Reverend Jesse Jackson
“If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.”—Zig Ziglar
“Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.”—Stephen C. Paul
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity...Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”—Dennis Waitley
“Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others - and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.”—Ayn Rand
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Washington Thurman
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”-Oprah Winfrey
“The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.” --Jim Rohn
“If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”—Marie Osmond
“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” –Iyanla Vanzant
"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think." -- A Course in Miracles
“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.”-- Oprah Winfrey
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." --Meister Eckhart
"Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see the same divinity in everyone else." - Don Miguel Ruiz
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Peter Hammill
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
Frederick Sanger
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
Nicholas Sparks
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
John Pople
I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.
Jim Bakker
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl Lagerfeld
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Julien Benda
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
William Friedkin
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
Simon van der Meer
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
Paul Nurse
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
Herodotus
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Ruth Benedict
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Robert Motherwell
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
Mark Lloyd
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise Pascal
Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.
Richard Reeves
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
Giraldus Cambrensis