QUOTES

 

Anthony Robbins

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

"Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions."

"Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential."

"Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal."

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."

"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."

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

"To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."

"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors."

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

"For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent."

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk."

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?"

"It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Aristotle

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."

"Happiness depends on ourselves."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"It is possible to fail in many ways. While to succeed is possible only in one way."

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it."

"In the area of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities."

"We are what we repeatedly do."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger."

Benjamin Franklin

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."

"Don’t be a fault finder, don’t be reprimanding people all the time."

Buddha

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

"He is able who thinks he is able."

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

"What we think, we become."

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

Chinese Proverbs

"He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who doesn’t remains a fool forever."

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion."

"Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases."

"To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art."

"The journey is the reward."

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back."

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently."

"To get through the hardest journey we need to only take one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."

"To regret the past is to forfeit the future."

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

"A smile will gain you ten more years of life."

"The gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities."

Confucius

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day again in your life."

"He who learns but doesn’t think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance."

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

"The father that does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

"Learning without thought is labor lost."

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

"It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change."

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

"Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof, when your own doorstep is unclean."

Dale Carnegie

"Most important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress."

"Never forget that to be genuinely interested in other people is the most important quality for a salesperson to possess or for any person in that matter."

"The only way to make someone do something is by getting them to want to do it."

"Don't criticize, complain, or condemn."

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

"Encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment."

"Showing genuine interest in others not only wins friends for you and loyalty to your company."

"People rarely succeed at anything unless they are having fun doing it."

"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."

"One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought after people by becoming genuinely interested in them."

"You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

"If we want to make friends, let put ourselves out to do things for other people. Things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. "

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."

Euripides

"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other."

"There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man."

"Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far."

"Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances."

"Do not consider painful what is good for you. "

"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. "

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

"The wisest men follow their own direction."

"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. "

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

"I have found power in the mysteries of thought. "

"A bad beginning makes a bad ending. "

"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something. "

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. "

"The test of our progress is not whether we move to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. "

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for our future."

"First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Henry Ford

"If there lies one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as your own."

"Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t you are right."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"Win or learn, there is no failure."

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

Hooman

"Use incredible thoughts to manifest an incredible life. Your life will follow your thoughts. If you think it, and believe it, then you will see it."

"You will only grow as a person if you stretch your abilities to achieve outside of your current capabilities. Never stop stretching your abilities."

"You have to take control of your life and believe in your abilities to achieve. Your beliefs will make or break you."

"Use your mind to elevate your life. Everything is possible when you believe in your abilities to achieve."

"If you don't like the results that you are experiencing, then you must keep changing your actions until you are successful."

"If your day is dark, look for the light because a real star shines day and night."

"When you are up against an impossible obstacle, would it be smarter to believe in your abilities to overcome the impossible? Or would it be better to face it with your doubt of the impossible? You can achieve anything you believe."

"Everyone in life gets knocked down, but life only rewards those who get back up."

"The pursuit of your dream is guaranteed to include some pain along the way but that just makes the taste of victory so much sweeter."

"With your heart fully invested in your dreams, your passion and determination will allow you to achieve anything you desire."

"Success or failure in life depend on the quality of your thoughts. Master the art of thought and your dreams will become your reality."

"Live your life being fearless. The greatest risk is the one that you don't take. You can achieve anything you believe."

"Power comes from within. You have the power inside of you to achieve anything you desire with power and control over your thoughts and actions."

"Experience comes from failing. Learn from it so you don't experience it again."

"Focus on the future and forget the past. Failure is not an option if you believe you can achieve anything you desire."

"Everyone is created equal. Its how we use our hearts and minds that makes us great."

"Who says you can't? If you believe them you will never achieve. If you believe you can then there is nothing you can't achieve."

"What empowering questions are you going to ask yourself today that is going to inspire you to soar to new heights tomorrow."

"Nothing is impossible. Where there's a will, there's a way. If we have a burning desire to make it happen, we will."

"Awaken the change inside of you. Everyone has change inside them, but not everyone changes because they fear failure. Don't fear change, welcome it."

"Don't do things you will regret later. Live your life right everyday. Its not the length of your life that matters. Its the quality of it."

"Whether you believe its possible or whether you believe its impossible, you are right."

"If you have never failed then you have never lived. Failure makes you if you don't let it break you. Use failure to motivate you on your way to success."

"Everyone has the inspiration inside of them to achieve anything they desire. The question is IF they desire to achieve greatness?"

"Stretch your abilities to achieve more and more by the goal. Stretching is the only way to achieve accomplishments outside of your current capabilities."

"Have some urgency in your life. Don't say you will do it one day, achieve it today. Don't wait to be great. Be great now."

"A relentless effort is the key to achieving your goals. Take action and make it happen."

"The more empowering questions you ask yourself, the more empowered you will be."

"Work on your weaknesses until they are as strong as your strengths. Then you will become an unstoppable force of power."

"There are several roads to take to get to the promise land of success. However, the view is just as beautiful no matter which road you took."

"Great achievements are the result of great expectations. You will only see it happen when you believe it will happen."

"Those who fear rejection will experience rejection. Those who believe in success will experience success. Your life follows your dominant mental thoughts."

"Nothing big will ever be easy to achieve. The greater your goal, the greater your effort necessary for you to achieve it."

"Focus on what you want and pursue it will an unstoppable desire to succeed. You can achieve anything you desire if you believe in yourself."

"Don't be bothered by fear. Embrace your fears so you can find the courage to overcome them. You can overcome anything you desire."

"A great leader's legacy will live on in the actions of his followers. Their wisdom is passed on forever by the people they have inspired."

"Elevate your mind to elevate your life. Your life will follow your thoughts. Think big."

"Never underestimate your true potential. If you limit your thoughts, you will limit your life. Power comes from within you from your thoughts."

"Tired of getting the same results? Stop doing what you have been doing and change your approach until you achieve the results you desire."

"Perseverance moves you through those trying times that would make the average person quit."

"Take massive action towards your goals on a daily basis. Now is the time to take total control of your life so you can live the life of your dreams."

"Persistence will bring you freedom, so move forward with the fierce urgency of now. Now is the time to let your persistence set you free."

"Whether its impossible or possible depends on your thoughts. You can achieve anything you believe."

"Master your thoughts and you will master your life."

"If you are a non-believer, you will always be a non-achiever."

"Elevate your life today by elevating your thoughts. Your life will follow your dominant thoughts."

"Perseverance is failing over and over again, until you achieve the results that you desire."

"Never give up until you succeed."

"Motivated minds networking together can create a powerful force, so surround yourself with the best possible influences while you strive to bring out the best of each other."

"Design your dream life by mastering your thoughts to believe in yourself and your abilities to achieve."

"Power and control over your thoughts and actions will have you achieving the greatest outcomes of your lives."

"Failure is only permanent when you have accepted it as your reality. Refuse to quit until you achieve the results that you desire."

"To change your life, you must fully understand what needs to be changed. Being in denial is like a being in disguise. Don't fool yourself."

"Its impossible to feel bad when you are having good thoughts. When you control your thoughts and actions you are the creator of your future."

"Control your thoughts and actions to manifest the greatest outcomes of your life. Your thoughts will become your reality."

"Most people will never achieve success because they give up too soon. You have to believe that success is your only option. Its not a matter of if you will be successful, but when you will be successful."

"Control your thoughts to focus on the most empowering thoughts. Your life will follow your thoughts."

"Why are you waiting for life to happen? Life doesn't happen. You are the only one who can make your life happen."

"You can change your world one thought at a time."

"Summon the will to succeed because you are the only one who can unleash the power to achieve that's inside of you."

"Focus on the future and never look back. You can’t change the past but what you can change is your future. Master your thoughts to achieve the greatest outcomes so you can turn your dreams into your realities."

"Use each failure as a step to success, bringing you one step closer to making your dreams come true."

"If you believe you can, you will. Its all up to you to make it happen. If you want it bad enough you will only take the necessary actions that are going to get you the results that you desire. If you are doubting yourself and asking yourself limiting questions, than you must reassess what you are striving to accomplish because you may not want it bad enough. The passionate, motivated, achievers will constantly change their approach until they achieve the results they desire because other peoples dreams are their realities."

"You can change your world just one thought at a time by only letting the greatest thoughts enter your mind. Now is the time to empower your mind, body, and soul."

"Communication will get you the best out of life, but its up to you to get the best out of your communication."

"You can achieve anything you believe."

"Your life is so precious. It can end at any moment. Live up to your own highest expectations. Focus on what you want and make it happen now."

"You must always be aware of your feelings, bad thoughts= bad feelings. Good thoughts = good feelings."

"Power comes from within. You are a powerful force that can create the thoughts necessary to control your future outcomes. Only you can desire the change that controls your future."

"If you really want change in your life, you must be the catalyst of your own change. You must realize that the only person in the world that can make that change is you."

"A great beginning will lead you to a great ending."

"Moment by moment, day by day you are the navigator of your life. If you don’t like where you stand then make a change and keep on keeping on. Think big and Dream bigger."

"Its not the length of your life that matters, its the way you live it. Never let them forget your name. You must stay on their mind. In todays competitive world, only the first choice gets paid."

"I am the master of my destiny. My future is only as special as I make it."

"I am the master of my thoughts and actions. If I want it bad enough and I believe in my abilities to achieve, then there is no way I can be stopped."

"Focus on the future and forget the past. Failure is not an option because you will overcome any obstacle that is in your way. You know how bad you want it so make it happen now."

"It is impossible to feel bad when you are having good thoughts. When you control your thoughts and actions you are the creator of your future."

"Control your thoughts and actions to manifest the greatest outcomes of your life."

"What good are great qualities if they are not being put to their highest and best use?"

"Passion is a powerful force from within you that is just waiting to be unleashed. Now is the time to take control of your life by designing your life exactly the way you want it to be. Your human potential for personal power is unlimited. Bring out the best of your abilities."

"Nothing is sweeter than the thrill of victory after you have tasted the agony of defeat."

"Sales professionals need to show their clients how their goods and services will help solve their problems, they won’t have to sell us then, we will buy it. We want to buy things not be sold."

Jim Rohn

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"The book you don't read won't help."

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

"If you do not like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Mahatma Gandhi

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they need to be defended against the heaviest odds."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is left."

"Returning violence with violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars ... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live."

"And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promise land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man."

Napolean Hill

"What the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat."

"One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word impossible."

"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

"I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects."

"There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition."

"The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and shortcomings of his followers."

"The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan."

"The world does not pay men for that for which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do."

"Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself."

"Failure cannot cope with persistence."

"The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing."

"There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service."

"The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others."

"Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule."

"Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."

"Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage."

"The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism."

"People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail."

"The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage."

"Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence."

"Your subconscious mind functions voluntarily, whether you make any effort to influence it or not."

"Thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed."

"If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. "

"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."

"Success comes to those who become conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

"Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the “time to be right” to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is a definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

"Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it."

"The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith."

"All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."

Norman Vincent Peale

"We tend to get what we expect."

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."

"The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he waste no time on futile "ifs"."

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

"When every physical and mental resource has been focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

"Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines success or failure."

"Its always too early to quit."

"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."

"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have;"

"The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

"Live your life and forget your age."

"Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm."

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."

"Change yourself and your work will seem different."

"When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him."

"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize."

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

Plato

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."

"Never discourage anyone.... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."

Sigmund Freud

"Everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great."

Thomas A. Edison

"My principal business consists of giving commercial value to the brilliant, but misdirected ideas of others."

"Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Accordingly, I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it."

"If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value."

"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent...."

"Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure."

"If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

"I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off."

"Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something."