When You Change Your Outlook, You Change Your Outcome - Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

~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~ 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

~Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that~ Norman Vincent Peale

~If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done~ Norman Vincent Peale

~Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as 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~ Norman Vincent Peale

Our Thoughts Create Our World - Thought Quotes

~No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking~ Voltaire

~You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think~ Walter Anderson

~Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind~ Leonardo da Vinci

~You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown

~Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man~ Bertrand Russell

It Takes Courage To Live - Courage Quotes

~Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other~ Samuel Johnson

~Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear~ Ambrose Redmoon

~Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow~ Mary Anne Radmacher

~Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared~ Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

With Hope Anything Is Possible - Hope Quotes

~Once you choose hope, anything's possible~ Christopher Reeve

~Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them~ Vincent McNabb

~Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible~ Author Unknown

~Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all~ Emily Dickinson

~The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination~ Marian Zimmer Bradley

A Happy Family Is A But An Earlier Heaven - Family Quotes

~In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony~ Eva Burrows

~Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter~ Brad Henry

~Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family~ Virginia Satir

~No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished~ Elbert Hubbard

~Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing~ Jim Rohn

The Wise Make Their Own Opportunities - Opportunity Quotes

~Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along ~Hugh Allen

~The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes~ Benjamin Disraeli

~A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds ~Francis Bacon

~A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties ~Harry Truman

~Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance~ Robert Brault

Move Out Of Your Comfort Zone - Brian Tracy Quotes

~All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose~ Brian Tracy

~Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation~ Brian Tracy

~It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going~ Brian Tracy

~Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance~ Brian Tracy

~Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new~ Brian Tracy

Be The Living Example Of God's Kindness - Mother Teresa Quotes

~Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired~ Mother Teresa

~Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing~ Mother Teresa

~Good works are links that form a chain of love~ Mother Teresa

~If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other~ Mother Teresa

~Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go~ Mother Teresa

Change The Way You Look At Things - Dr. Wayne Dyer Quotes

~A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe~ Wayne Dyer

~Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul~ Wayne Dyer

~Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life~ Wayne Dyer

~I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside~ Wayne Dyer

~It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized~ Wayne Dyer

Aim Above Morality - Henry David Thoreau Quotes

~All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers~ Henry David Thoreau

~Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something~ Henry David Thoreau

~As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives~ Henry David Thoreau

~Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts~ Henry David Thoreau

~Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant~ Henry David Thoreau

Go Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

~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

~A man is what he thinks about all day long~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remake Yourself With Your Thoughts - Gandhi Quotes

~A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history~ Mohandas Gandhi

~A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes~ Mohandas Gandhi

~Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well~ Mohandas Gandhi

~Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances~ Mohandas Gandhi

~As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves~ Mohandas Gandhi

Learn Wisdom From Your Failures - Failure Quotes

~It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed~ Theodore Roosevelt

~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

~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

~There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing~ Sarah J. Hale

Be Of Good Charatcer - Character Quotes

~Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us~ Thomas Paine

~Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth~ Daniel Webster

~Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny~ George Dana Boardman

~Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Good Leader Does As (S)he Says - Leadership Quotes

~The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

~The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it~ Theodore Roosevelt

~Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts~ John Gardner

~Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach~ Rosabeth Moss Kantor

~The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done~ Peter Drucker

Have An Attitude Of Gratitude -Gratitude Quotes

~Good cheer is something more than faith in the future, it is gratitude for the past and joy in the present~ Unknown

~A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

~To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven~ Johannes A. Gaertner

~As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them~ John F. Kennedy

~Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom~ Marcel Proust

Let Nature Be Your Teacher - Nature Quotes

~ Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song~ Lou Holtz

~Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them~ Rose Kennedy

~Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books~ John Lubbock

~Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul~ John Muir

Happiness Is A Choice - Hapiness Quotes

~Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections~ Unknown

~Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence~ Aristotle

~We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have~ Frederick Keonig

~Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful~ Herman Cain

~Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different~ Stacey Charter

Kindness Is The Best Philosophy - Kindness Quotes

~I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again~ Stephan Grellet

~Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile~ Mother Teresa

~Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see~ Mark Twain

~You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make~ Sasha Azevedo

~This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness~ Dalai Lama

Persistence Leads To Greatness - Persistence Quotes

~The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come~ James Whitcomb

~Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak~ Thomas Carlyle

~Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race~ Calvin Coolidge

~No great achievement is possible without persistent work~ Bertrand Russell

~A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success~ Elbert Hubbard

The Choice Is Yours - Choice Quotes

~It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities~ Joanne Kathleen

~I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude~ Unknown

~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 compromise~ Robert Fritz

~Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom~ Buddha

~In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility~ Eleanor Roosevelt