Systematically Organized For Our Weal or Woe

"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits—practical, emotional, and intellectual,—systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny."

-- William James

Difference Between The Brave and Coward

"What is the difference between the brave man or woman and the coward? The answer is that the brave person confronts the fear, moves toward the fear, deals with the fear, and resolves the fearful situation. The cowardly person, on the other hand, backs away from the fear, avoids the fear, and hopes that the fear will go away by itself."

-- Brian Tracy

The Most Important Step To Success

"The most important step is the first step. All those old sayings are really true. Well begun is half done. Don’t get it perfect, get it going. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-- Gretchen Rubin

How You Spend Your Time

"Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you."

-- Goethe

Begin To See Ourselves in a New Light

"Without a dream, we may struggle to see potential in ourselves because we don’t look beyond our current circumstances. But with a dream, we begin to see ourselves in a new light, as having greater potential and being capable of stretching and growing to reach it."

--  John C. Maxwell

Fastest Way To Get What You Want

"Whatever I want in life, I’ve found that the best way to get it is to focus my energy on giving to others. If I want to feel more hopeful, positive, and inspired, I try to infuse that in someone else’s day. If I want more success for myself, the fastest way to get it is to go about helping someone else obtain it."

-- Darren Hardy

Someone of a Different Culture

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."

-- George Orwell

Having Fun Is Important

"Having fun is important, if only because it’s easier to demand more of ourselves when we’re giving more to ourselves. According to procrastination expert Neil Fiore, people who schedule playtime are more likely to tackle unappealing projects than people who never let themselves enjoy guilt-free fun until after their work is finished."

-- Gretchen Rubin

Love and Harmony

"Love and harmony between husband and wife usually takes years of compromise to realize.  Many people only realize in their twilight years, that marriage relies on no theories and only speaks of adaptation and giving in.  An important tip to blissful marriage is: Be more forgiving and good days will come.  Arguments in a marriage need no theories to resolve but forgiveness.  This plain, simple tip in life, however, takes years of going through challenges for people to full realise."

-- Buddha

The Wisdom You Seek

"When you take time to quiet your mind and listen deeply, the solutions you need are revealed. The wisdom you seek is within you."

-- Jack Kornfield

When Effort is Reduced to a Minimum

"When you enter into a sleepy, drowsy state, effort is reduced to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The reason for this is that the highest degree of outcropping of the subconscious occurs just prior to sleep and just after you awaken. In this state the negative thoughts, which tend to neutralize your desire and so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind, are no longer present."

-- Joseph Murphy

Cultivate The Habit of Thinking

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise  opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

-- Alfred North Whitehead

If You Use Negative Self-Talk Repeatedly

"If you use negative self-talk repeatedly, you will start believing that these negative self-talks are true for you. Negative self-talk means negative beliefs which will attract negativity to your life."

-- Sayan Chakraborty

The Willingness To Take Risks

"The development of courage and self-confidence is absolutely essential for success, because it is the fear of failure that holds back most people. In the Forbes 400 listing of the richest people in America in 2015, the self-made billionaires listed “the willingness to take risks” as one of the five most important qualities to which they attributed their success."

-- Brian Tracy

Something That Wasn't Worth It

"People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that's exactly what you should do.  If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away.  You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time."

-- Jason Fried

Life Is Always About Choices

"A kind thought is the beginning of all things wonderful.  An evil thought is the origin of all tragedies.  Kindness and evil differ only by choice.  In life, we are always treading the line between kindness and evil, leaning to the left bring us to kindness, skewing to the right to evil.  Life is always about choices, made in a split second, a choice can decide long periods of happiness or even a lifetime of prosperity or desolateness.  A mindful kind thought is better than hundred days of spiritual practice."

-- Buddha

Work Your Way Through It

"Maybe you’ve made a lot of mistakes in your life, or you’ve had an especially difficult past with many obstacles. Work your way through it and move on. Don’t let it prevent you from reaching your potential."

--  John C. Maxwell

Done According To Your Belief

"A belief is the thought in your mind. Do not believe in things that harm or hurt you. Believe in the power of your subconscious to heal, inspire, strengthen, and prosper you. According to your belief, it is done to you."

-- Joseph Murphy

Work And Play With Passion

"As for peak performers worth emulating, they share common threads.  They listen and learn.  They work and play with passion.  They're willing to fail and try again.  They're humble and appreciative.  They embrace something that matters."

-- Cliff Michaels

Make Challenging But Realistic Plans

"Make challenging but realistic plans and work at making them happen. And whatever you do, don’t rely on luck. In any case, if you’re doing it properly, you won’t need it."

-- Richard Templar

Select One Goal With Greatest Impact

"Select the one goal that could have the greatest positive impact on your life, make a plan for its achievement, and work on it every single day until you are successful."

-- Brian Tracy

What Tires Us Are Our Minds

"Life does not tire us, what tires us are our minds, specifically meaning our desires and wants are too numerous, restricting our enjoyment of life's joy.  We need only have a heart of contentment to be able to keep our moods pleasant at all times.  With little things to desire, we will not be entrapped by worldly affairs, our moral characters will thus be refined."

-- Buddha

What You Tell Yourself Each Day

"No matter who you are, how you speak to yourself not only reflects but affects every aspect of your life. What you tell yourself each day reflects not only what you think, but also how you feel and act. This can directly influence your results in life."

-- Sayan Chakraborty

Your Mind Is Not Evil

"Your mind is not evil. No force of nature is evil. It depends upon how you use the powers of nature. Use your mind to bless, heal, and inspire all people everywhere. You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body by changing your thoughts and keeping them changed. When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your subconscious goes to work to accept the idea."

-- Joseph Murphy

Dream Acts As Compass

"We all need something worthwhile to aim for. A dream provides us with that. It acts as a compass, telling us the direction we should travel. And until we’ve identified that right direction, we’ll never know for sure that our movement is actually progress."

--  John C. Maxwell

If You Want To Become Successful

"If you want to become successful and earn more money, stop thinking about what you should get paid for doing something for an hour, and start asking yourself how you can raise the value you provide to other people for the hour you spend."

-- Chris Widener

Learning How To Give and Take

"Only with letting go do we have gains, only by learning how to give and take can we gain more. So appropriate giving in and learning to let go is a form of wisdom.  Actually, to give in reasonably is a suave way of life and a skill; to give in reasonably is to be open-minded and a realization of life.  The doors of life usually have no keys.  During a critical point in life, what one needs most is not a conventional key but a rock to smash obstacles!"

-- Buddha

Do Something Every Day on Your Important Goal

"Do something every day on your most important goal. Do something seven days a week, thirty days a month. Never let a day go by where you don’t do something that moves you at least one step forward toward something that is important to you."

-- Brian Tracy