Don't Be Disappointed As Every One Has Them

"One of the first things successful people learn is that failures and disappointments are not the end.  Everyone has them, and the important thing is to learn from them.  Think of your failure as a challenge."

-- Barry Parker


"Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste."

-- GK Chesterton


"Where words fail, music speaks."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

To Eleminiate A Bad Habit

"Eleminating a bad habit means removing something from your routine.  Installing a new, more productive habit requires an entirely different skill set.  You're planting the tree, watering it, fertilizing it and making sure it's properly rooted.  Doing so takes effort, time and practice."

-- Darren Hardy


"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

-- William Butler Yeats


"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

The Journey Inward and Upward

"The Journey inward and upward is much like the experience of climbing a mountain.  Sometimes the climb is tough.  But each time you stop to look around, the view becomes more and more spectacular.  And you are propelled higher by the increasing beauty you see."

-- Susan Jeffers


"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

-- O. Henry


"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

-- Maria Edgeworth

Enjoy and Learn Everything

"Lifestyle means expanding your knowledge and experiences from the influence of books, people, films and new adventures.  So take care to enjoy and learn from everything and everyone with whom you come in contact."

-- Jim Rohn


"Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily; If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow."

-- Eknath Easwaran


"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

-- Yoko Ono

Failure Contains All The Clues

"Any failure is merely feedback about what's happening on the inside.  Failure contains all the clues necessary for you to learn what is standing in your way.  Failure is actually a gift, a built-in mechanism that contains all the answers you are looking for."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"If you see a whole thing -- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin


"Be a ladder, not a leader."

-- Jayesh Patel

Step Back To Look At Your Beliefs

“Because your beliefs make you feel and act a certain way, your beliefs have the power to help you achieve your goals. Or to block your progress.  To continuously improve and gain that all-important 1 percent, you need to step back and look at your beliefs and change them if they aren’t working for you.”

-- Tom Connellan


"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera."

-- Dorothea Lange


"Hope is the thing with feathers.That perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words. And never stops at all."

-- Emily Dickinson

Pay The Success Price

"The best way to predict the future is to create it ourselves, whatever the circumstances.  Success is for people willing to pay the price."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Without the fundamentals, the details are useless."

-- James Clear


"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

You Become What You Think

"Thought is the most tremendous force in the universe.
Think kind thoughts ... you become kind.
Think happy thoughts ... you become happy.
Think success ... you become successful.
Think good thoughts ... you become good.
Think evil thoughts ... you become evil.
Think sickness ... you become sick.
Think health ... you become healthy.
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK!"

-- W. Clement Stone

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

-- Charlotte Bronte 

Paving Your Way To Success

"Study setbacks to pave your way to success. When you lose, learn, and then go on to win next time.  Have the courage to be your own constructive critic. Seek out your faults and weaknesses and then correct them. This makes you a professional."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

-- Maya Angelou


"You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action."

-- Jerome Bruner

Sail Your Life To a New Direction

"Your habits are learned, therefore, they can be unlearned.  If you want to sail your life in a new direction, you have to first pick up the anchors of bad habits that have been weighing you down.  The key is to make your why-power so strong that it overwhelms your urges for instant gratification."

-- Darren Hardy


"The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy."

-- Richard Bach


"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand."

-- Robert Valett

Little by Little Make Progress

"Substitute positive thoughts for every negative one that comes into your mind.  Little by little you will make progress.  If you do it long enough, your subconscious mind will take over and change your habits automatically.  In fact, it will change your entire personality."

-- Barry Parker


"Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs."

-- Joan Didion


"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."

-- The Buddha

Choose One Thing To Change

“Choose one habit—a way of doing something—that you want to change. Make it a small and specific change. If you make it too broad or difficult, you risk failing and ending up dispirited, as with the grand New Year’s resolutions we talked about.”

-- Tom Connellan


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

-- Albert Einstein


"Life is more fun if you play games."

-- Roald Dahl

Why People Fail To Take Action

"Many people fail to take action because they’re afraid to fail. Successful people, on the other hand, realize that failure is an important part of the learning process. They know that failure is just a way we learn by trial and error. Not only do we need to stop being so afraid of failure but we also need to be willing to fail—even eager to fail."

-- Jack Canfield


"I've always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you."

-- Maya Angelou


"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

-- Mother Teresa

Sorry About That

"Many winners in life are those who have been handed the worst life has to offer.  So you can't blame circumstances in your life for holding you back!  Sorry about that!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"Creativity is not found just in the chosen few who exhibit artistic talent. It is a force that flows through every single one of us, allowing us to dream things up and make them happen."

-- Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy


"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization."

-- Roger Ebert

Travel Life's Pathway

"We travel life’s pathway in the energy of love; we are free to acknowledge or ignore it as we choose, though it remains within regardless of the choices we make. This is the energy of the universe, and whether you are aware of it or not, the simple truth is that you are now and always will be in love, literally!"

-- Gary Dooley


"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

-- Fred Rogers


"Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

Give Your Mind New Set of Eyes

"When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on.  It's as if you're giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas and creativity surrounding you."

-- Darren Hardy


“So the key to reaching your goal is knowing where you want to go and which actions you need to do to get there—and then persistence and effort will get you there.”

-- Tom Connellan


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

-- Aristotle

The Most Powerful Way To Learn

"The most powerful way I've learned to compress time is to learn through other people's experience.  We can never truly master time as long as our primary strategy for learning and mastering our is based upon trial and error."

-- Anthony Robbins


"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

-- Howard Thurman


"Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Fertilize What You Plant In Your Mind

"When you plant a definite chief aim in your sub-conscious mind you must fertilize it with full belief that infinite intelligence will step in and mature that purpose into reality in exact accordance with the nature of the purpose.  Anything short of such belief will bring you disappointment."

-- Napoleon Hill


"To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim."

-- Mark Nepo


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

-- Confucius

Drive Your Success Into Your Subconscious Mind

"Drive your success into your subconscious mind.  Remember that your subconcious mind can't distingish a vivid imagination of success from real success, and it adjusts your habits accordingly.  So think of your goals every morning when you wake, and in the evening when you go to bed.  See yourself successful - see the end result."

-- Barry Parker


"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

-- Lao T


"I don't even think about whether I love music or not because my connection to music is deeper than love."

-- David France

First Know Yourself

"At this moment, do you know exactly what your assets are? Are you aware of your true abilities, your potential for growth, your successes of the past, no matter how small? If you're not, fake inventory of yourself. To know where you're going and how to get there, you must first know yourself."

-- W. Clement Stone


"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."

-- Langston Hughes


"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Confusion As You Walk Through Life

"Allow yourself confusion as you walk through life.  It is our way of sorting things out.  It is through confusion that we finally come to clarity.  When you can find the good in any decision you make, it's much easier to accept the responsibility for making it!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much."

-- Alain de Botton


"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself -- and there isn't one."

-- Wei Wu Wei

Towards Greater Happiness

"Greater happiness is created by directing the energy of love towards ourselves and others. Love of self, love of life, and love of others awakens an energy that lifts us above the fears and limitations of our negative thoughts. The energy of love connects us all, and when we start to look for it in the world around us we discover an abundance of it within ourselves."

-- Gary Dooley


"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

-- Franz Kafka


"People who don't have a concept of the whole, can do very unfortunate things."

-- Joseph Campbell

All Thoughts Are Magnetic in Nature

"Tell yourself, "There IS a way." All thoughts are magnetic. As soon as you tell yourself, "I'm beaten. There's no way to conquer this problem," negative thoughts are attracted, and each of these helps convince you that you are right, that you are whipped. Believe instead, "There is a way to solve this problem," and positive thoughts rush into your mind to help you find a solution. It's believing "there is a way" that is important."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

-- Mark Twain


"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."

-- Jack Kornfield

Powerful Commands to Your Subconscious Mind

"Acting as if sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways to achieve your goals. It programs the reticular activating system (RAS) in your brain to start noticing anything that will help you succeed, and it sends strong messages to the universe that this end goal is something you really want."

-- Jack Canfield


"The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity."

-- M. Scott Peck


"One person's trash is another person's treasure."

-- MotivationStuff.com

The One Skill For Abundance Life

"The one skill most responsible for the abundance in my life is learning how to effectively set and achieve goals.  Something almost magical happens when you organize and focus your creative power on a well-defined target.  The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions."

-- Darren Hardy


"WE SEEK TO CONTROL OUR LIVES WHEN WE DO NOT TRUST, WHEN WE DO NOT LOVE. Our ego, perceiving itself to be vulnerable and insecure, uses control in an effort to protect itself.

At the root of our need to control, we find FEAR. It may be fear of the unknown. Fear of not coping. Fear of loss. Or possibly even fear of looking stupid. And as our efforts to control other people and events invariably fail, our fear increases.

Trust, on the other hand, is a quality of the soul. While control is a tool of the mind, TRUST AND FAITH ARE ASPECTS OF THE HEART. Trust comes with the deep knowing that we are spiritual beings in physical bodies. When we trust enough in life to give up our need to control, we can relax and open to the flow of energy in our lives. This brings peace of mind."

-- John Robson

Tell Yourself Failure Is Impossible

"Keep telling yourself that failure is impossible - you won't accept it.  Remember the four things you need for success: discipline, commitment, determination and persistence."

-- Barry Parker


"When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control."

-- Steve Rapson


"Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are."

-- Wayne Dyer

The Death Of Fear

"Make it a habit to do the things you fear, and the death of fear is certain.  As your level of courage and confidence increases, your fears and doubts will decrease.  The more you confront your fears and eliminate them, the stronger and more confident you will feel.  Your self-esteem and self-respect will rise."

-— Brian Tracy


"The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love."

-- John Legend


"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

-- George W. Bush

What Do You Really Really Want

"Take time to think about what you really want in life, not what others would have you want.  'What do I want?' is a question we need to ask ourselves constantly.  Wants change as we learn to find the power and love within."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the "enemies" who appear from time to time in our lives."

-- The Dalai Lama


"Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day."

-- Kristin Chenoweth

The Only Adviser You Will Ever Need

"Meditation is simply a way to transcend the confines of the ego mind to find happiness in stillness and peace – what we really are at source. You won’t need the advice of an expert or guru; in fact, as with all internal aspects of your being, you are the only adviser you will ever need."

-- Gary Dooley


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Success Isn't Overnight

"You know that success isn't easy or overnight.  You understand that when you're committed to making moment-to-moment positive choices (despite the lack of visible or instant results), the compound effect will catapult you to heights that will astound you, bewilder your friends, family and your competition."

-- Darren Hardy


"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."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr


"No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself ..."

-- John Robson