"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." William C. Durant

"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

"There are three kinds of leaders: those who make things happen, those who wait for things to happen, and those who wonder what happened."

"Work is Love made visible. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy." - Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." -- Aristotle

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream." - Paulo Coelho

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa 

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" – Thomas Alva Edison

"You cannot learn other people's lessons for them. They must do it themselves, and they will do it when they are ready." - Louise L. Hay

"There is a healing force within each of us, a kind of divine physician seated within our minds and in communication with every cell of our being. This force is the intelligence that drives the immune system." - Marianne Williamson

"Being human is ultimately a journey of spiritual evolution." - Daphne Rose Kingma, The Future of Love

"I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir

"We cannot do great deeds unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing." - E.F. Schumaker, economist

"Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow." - Abraham Lincoln

"I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined." - Mark Burnett, Founder of the Eco Challenge

 

"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow." - Ralph Ellison, novelist

 

"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator

 

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." - Robert Bresson, Film Director

 

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott

 

"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

 

"The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than to cast off your own limitations and to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do." - Brian Tracy

 

"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days." -Lance Armstrong

 

"Let the miraculous life you were born to lead unfold in all of its magnificence." - Poet & Philosopher, Henry Thoreau

 

"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." - Industrialist, James Ling

 

"I want to be comfortable and proud of everything I do." - Natalie Portman, upon deciding to stop doing certain advertising

 

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." - Elizabeth Harrison, educator

 

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Opera Singer, Beverly Sills

 

"Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we've been waiting for." - Hopi Nation, Oraibi Arizona

 

"Optimism means faith in ourselves, faith in the everydayness of our lives, and above all, faith in love." - Edward Steichen, photographer

 

"So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting ... snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being." - Eckhart Tolle

 

"If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction." - Howard Zinn

 

""My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." - Lee Iacocca

 

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton

 

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." - Nigerian Proverb

 

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone." - Sam Levenson

"Our intentions--noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle--contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water." - Gil Fronsdal

 

"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things .... stop being a glass. Become a lake." - Hindu parable

 

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington

 

"Remember that there are numerous and incredible options for someone as motivated and skilled as you are." - Isaac Mankita

 

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Emerson

 

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like an open sore and then run--- Does it stink like rotting meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet. Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" - Langston Hughes

 

"Failure is simply a reason to strengthen resolve." -- Winston Churchill

 

"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. Fall in love, stay in love and it will decide everything." - Pedro Arrupe

 

"Dare to dream, then work to make that dream a reality." - Monica S. Flores

 

"We really do have the opportunity to make this country into what we all believe it ought to be." Governor Howard Dean, March 18, 2004

 

"All these problems and conditions are a result of past actions. And past deeds start in the mind. If the heart brings forth thoughts motivated by greed and anger and stupidity, then the harvest will be bitter. If the mind plants seeds based on morality, compassion, and wisdom, then these seeds will ripen into peace and well-being for all beings everywhere. What you give, you get. The big starts from the small." - Heng Ch'au

 

"Out of the strain of Doing, into the peace of the Done." - Julia Louise Woodruff

 

"It is easier to be a 'humanitarian' than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a 'patriot' than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a 'civic leader' than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task." - Sydney J. Harris

 

"The Japanese carp or koi has the natural ability to grow according to the size of its environment. Thus, in a small tank, it usually grows to no more than five to seven centimetres, but if placed in a lake, it can grow to three times that size." - Paulo Coelho

 

"If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal." - Unattributed

 

"I'm speaking of the light and energy that can work through us, if we only let it, by turning off our self-doubt and our fear and instead being mindful of the great opportunity we have to create positive change." - Monica S. Flores

 

"And follow what your heart is telling you!! Do it! Put an end to the worrying and the needless anxiety, and focus those incredible energies of yours towards the true goal: that of doing what we are meant to be doing, and being who we are meant to be." - Monica S. Flores

 

"Lord, take me where You want me to go; Let me meet who You want me to meet; Tell me what You want me to say; and Keep me out of your way." - Father Mychal Judge - FDNY - RIP 9/11/01

 

"If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans." - Jewish proverb

 

"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and What am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there." - Jelaluddin Rumi

 

"Love is the only real thing worth doing. All else is secondary. If it helps love, it is good. All else is just a means, love is the end. So whatsoever the pain, go into love." - Osho

 

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"Make it a lowercase 'A' if you have to, but live your Plan A. Anything else belittles the importance of life." - Vin Diesel, actor

 

"If you were building a new home for yourself, you know that you would be intensely interested in regard to the blueprint for your home; you would see to it that the builders conformed to the blueprint. You would watch the material and select only the best wood, steel, in fact, the best of everything. What about your mental blueprint for happiness and abundance? All your experiences and everything that enters into your life depend upon the nature of the mental building blocks which you use in the construction of your mental home." - Dr. Joseph Murphy,

 

"Power of Your Subconscious Mind"

 

"Thank you for all you bring to me - smiles, wisdom, generosity, true kindness from the heart, lots of laughter and always inspiration to live my life to the fullest. Thank you for being who you are and for being in my life." - Sarah Jaeger, Yoga Instructor

 

"There is a general tendency to be involved with all kinds of fascinations and delusions, and nothing very much takes root in one's being. Everything in one's life experience, concerning spirituality or anything else, is purely a matter of shopping... We no longer have to run after this person and that person. We no longer have to compare our lifestyle with anyone else's." - Chogyam Trungpa

 

"At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is having friends. At age 16 success is having a drivers license. At age 20 success is having sex. At age 35 success is having money. At age 50 success is having money. At age 60 success is having sex. At age 70 success is having a drivers license. At age 75 success is having friends. At age 80 success is not peeing in your pants." - Unknown

 

"It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

"I truly believe that my truth is a universal one -- above all religions, economics, race and color -- shared by the common experience of life. All people come from the same source and return to the same source. We must all learn to love and be loved unconditionally. All the hardships that come to you in life, all the tribulations and nightmares, all the things you see as punishments from God, are in reality like gifts. They are an opportunity to grow, which is the sole purpose of life." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

"Before setting out on a project, relationship, career, or life, you must set your priorities. You must decide what is important and what is a detail. Then, simple as it sounds, the success of your endeavor depends on remembering what is important and what is a detail. One of my favorite affirmations is: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. What is your main thing? Are you living true to it?" - Alan Cohen

 

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie

 

"The past is history, The future is a mystery, This moment is a gift, That is why this moment is called the present, Enjoy it!" - Allan Johnson

 

"The opportunity for work well done is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk, MD

 

"You should be doing what you love. What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love. Just look at people who are actually living their dreams. You can see a calm focus in their eyes and patience in their actions. They know they're in the right place, doing the right thing." - Barbara Sher

 

"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." - Joseph Cambpell

 

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control." - Oprah Winfrey

 

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." - Thomas Edison 

 

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." - Babe Ruth

 

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil." - Aristotle

 

"Fear grows in darkness... if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." - Dorothy Thompson

 

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible." - Christopher Reeve

 

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." - Aristotle

 

"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." - Zig Ziglar

 

"Friend, divine appointments are on their way for you! Even if you're not seeing those opportunities or not making as much progress as you would like, don't lose any ground. Don't allow discouragement and disappointment to hold you back. Instead, keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard because that's how you prepare for promotion." - Joel Osteen

 

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, You are correct" - Henry Ford

 

"Happiness can also be very fleeting, it can come and go depending on lots of other things; but real comittment can always be there no matter what else is going on." - Betrade

 

"What we think, we become." - Buddha

 

"Marriage is never confining. No relationship is. It is only our responsibilities to one another that we can experience as oppressive or not, depending on how conscious our decisions have been and what attitudes we are holding to our circumstances. How does one know freedom, as a lived experience, in the context of human relationship? That is true maturity. And that is true freedom." - Openthought

 

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

 

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." - Jesse Owens

 

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be, also."-- fortune cookie wisdom