Strength of Benevolent Words

"Benevolent words are not only restricted to verbal expressions.  Our eyes, facial expressions and body movements can unfold the strength of benevolent words, giving others warmth.  As you step out of your house and meet your neighbours and cleaners in the morning, just give a nod or a smile and everyone will have a joyful mood.  When someone has setbacks or worries, giving him encouragement and comfort can help him hurdle over his fears and difficult situations.  Always give benevolent words, this is gorgeous and delightful, and everyone would want to be near."

-- Buddha

Feel Better When You Are Alive

"Living a healthy lifestyle has become my hobby and my job. I live a healthy lifestyle, not because I want to live longer, but to feel better during the time I am alive."

-- Barbara Oakley

Building Up Your Risk Tolerance

"To my mind, the magnitude of an achievement will be limited by your aversion to risk. Building up your risk tolerance is like building up your fitness. You have to start small, and you have to go through some pain, but once you get the feel for risk’s ebbs and flows, its highs and lows, you learn to appreciate it."

-- Bob Bowman

Experience by Moving Forward

"Let us reawaken to a life unbounded, finding inspiration in the fact that humans throughout the millennia have learned to overcome their fears. They changed how they reacted to fearful impulses. They took a deep breath, contemplated whether or not their fears were rational, and visualized the growth they would experience by moving forward."

-- Brendon Burchard

Feed Your Mind Continually

"Feed your mind continually with positive ideas and information. Read positive books and articles, information that helps you and improves your life and work. Listen to positive, educational audio programs on your smartphone, in your car, and whenever else you have a chance. Attend positive talks, seminars, and workshops where you learn valuable, constructive ideas that you can use to improve the quality of your life."

-- Brian Tracy

Don't Let Others Define Your Self Worth

"You let other people define your self worth. If you give others the power to determine your self-worth, you’ll never feel worthy enough. You’ll only be as good as someone else’s opinion of you and you will never be able to receive enough praise or positive feedback to meet your needs if you depend on others to feel good about yourself."

-- Amy Morin

Stepping Back To Novice

"Many ordinary and extraordinary people have made fantastic changes in their lives by keeping themselves open to learning.  Learning something new sometimes means stepping back to novice level.  But it can be a thrilling adventure!"

-- Barbara Oakley

Do Not Compare Yourself to Others

"Don’t compare yourself to others. It’s not helpful or accurate. You don’t know their Fight as well as you think you do."

-- Bobby Bones

You Get To Make Your Life

"What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the committee made up. You get to make your life."

-- Cheryl Strayed

Thought Without Action

"Thought without action won’t amount to much in the long run. Those great ideas you have will remain great ideas unless you actively do something with them."

-- Donald Trump

Create Short-Term Objectives

"You don’t have to wait until you reach your goal before you celebrate your accomplishments. Instead, create short-term objectives and celebrate when you reach each milestone. Even something as small as going out to dinner with family can help you acknowledge your progress along the way."

-- Amy Morin

Do Something About It

"If you want something, you have to go for it. You don’t necessarily have to sacrifice everything (sometimes you do) but you do have to make a firm decision to take action. It’s no good saying you want to give up smoking if you just carry on lighting up and thinking how nice it would be if you could stop. Do something about it."

-- Richard Templar

Devote To Things Which You Can Control

"We can’t possibly make all our circumstances and all the people in our lives fit into the way we think things should be.  When you learn to let go of the details you can’t control, the amount of time and energy you’ll be able to devote to the things you can control will give you the ability to accomplish incredible feats."

-- Amy Morin

The Secret Ingredient To Success

"My secret ingredient to my success has been discipline discipline discipline. It’s not comfortable most of the time, and when it gets comfortable, that means it’s time to level up."

-- Bobby Bones

Make The Action Small

"If the antidote to fear is action, the way to take action—and to thus outsmart, outrun, or avoid our fear—is to make the action small enough, humble enough, that we are able to take it."

-- Julia Cameron

You Just Have To Give It a Try

"We don’t always know if we will end up where we want to be, but we have to give it a try. Even before we do that, we have to fight for our light and keep fighting for it. Because there will always be people who say, ‘I don’t think that will work.’"

-- John Bird

You The One Who Can Use Your Ability

"You will make a lousy anybody else, but you are the best “you” in existence. You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility."

-- Zig Ziglar

Gratitude Leads To More Positive Emotions

"People who feel gratitude don’t get sick as often as others. They have better immune systems and report fewer aches and pains. They have lower blood pressure and they exercise more often than the general population. They take better care of their health, sleep longer, and even report feeling more refreshed upon waking. Gratitude leads to more positive emotions. People who feel grateful experience more happiness, joy, and pleasure on a daily basis. They even feel more awake and energetic."

-- Amy Morin

Most Important Predictors of Success

"Ambition, grit, and endurance are the most important predictors of success—and anyone can possess those three qualities."

-- Bobby Bones

Once The Storm is Over

"And once the storm is over You won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, that the storm is over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, You won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm is all about."

-- Haruki Murakami
A poem from his novel "Kafka on the Shore"

All Life is an Experiment

"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

Live Fully in The Present

"We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present."

-- Marianne Williamson

Don't Let Events Determine You

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

-- Maya Angelou

Where Start and Success Shrink

"Work, time, and luck come with achieving a goal. Just know that if you pursue your goal with a steady drumbeat, the length between start and success will continually shrink."

-- Bob Bowman

We Must Venture Forth

"When our dreams become vivid and enliven us, we must venture forth, with or without worried family and friends, even if it brings some sorrow and sacrifice. To allow other people’s anxieties to defeat our drive is to succumb to oppression."

-- Brendon Burchard

The Feelings of Self Pity

"Feelings of self-pity can lead to living a pitiful life. When you feel sorry for yourself, it’s unlikely you’ll perform at your best. As a result, you may experience more problems and increased failures, which will breed more feelings of self-pity."

-- Amy Morin

Next Time I Will Do Better

"Always speak positively about yourself. Be careful never to say anything about yourself that you do not want to be true.  Never criticize yourself or put yourself down. If you make a mistake,  immediately cancel it by saying something like, “Next time I’ll do better.”"

-- Brian Tracy

Record and Learn from Mistakes

"Learn from your mistakes. The more time you can put between yourself and them, the easier that is to do. In a lot of instances, we don’t have enough time to properly reflect. And that’s okay. Keeping a list will help you recall them later. It’s human to forget things we don’t want to remember. Sometimes looking back at a mistake from three mistakes ago helps the current situation."

-- Bobby Bones

Power or Fear Its Your Choice

"Every time I felt something horrible cohering in my imagination, I pushed it away. I simply did not let myself become afraid. Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn’t long before I actually wasn’t afraid."

-- Cheryl Strayed