Mastery In Area of Life

"Often the best thing you can do to create mastery in any areas of your life is to raise a belief to the level of conviction.  Remember, conviction has the power to drive you to action, to push you through all kinds of obstacles."

-- Anthony Robbins


"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."

-- Rosalynn Carter


"Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of  relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him."

-- Virginia Satir


"What you appreciate -- appreciates."

-- Lynne Twist

Adversity and Challenges

"We need to remember that 'how we deal with adversity and challenges' will shape our lives more that almost anything else."

-- Anthony Robbins


"You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility."

-- Zig Ziglar


"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."

-- Deepak Chopra


"See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."

-- Mother Teresa

Useful Service

"Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

-- Kahlil Gibran


"When I walk into a room I assume I have to prove myself. I know that. I'm accustomed to that. But I also know I can prove myself."

-- Yvonne Brathwaite Bruke


"When did the rain explain "drink" to the earth, and the earth explain "grow" to the seed? Who taught the brook the concept of "mirth"and who explained "bend" to the reed?

-- Pavi Mehta

Value of The Subconscious

"The value of the subconscious is enormous: It inspires us; it warns us; it furnishes us with names, facts and scenes from the storehouse of memory.  It directs our thoughts, tastes, and accomplishes tasks so intricate that no conscious mind, even if it had the power, has the capacity.

-- Charles F. Haanel


"Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds."

-- Michael Pollan


"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."

-- Fred A. Manske, Jr.


"There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. ... The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important."

-- Eknath Easwaran

Habit Discontinued

"Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit."

-- Napoleon Hill


"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

-- Zig Ziglar


"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You

are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart"

-- Steve Jobs


"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

-- Robert Half

Every Great Achiever

"Every great achiever I've ever interviewed has had the ability to get themselves to feel certain they could succeed, even though no one before them had ever accomplished it.  They've been able to create references where no references existed and achieve what seemed to be impossible."

-- Anthony Robbins

"Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz -- something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding."

-- Chungliang Al Huang

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

-- Arundhati Roy

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."

-- George E. Allen

Every Thought

"Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions."

-- Charles F. Haanel


"Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and this attain superiority in nothing."

-- Baltaser Gracian


"If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

-- Cicero

Same Objective Mind

"The result is that we build strength, vitality, and all constructive forces into our body. But it is through this same objective mind that all distress, sickness, lack, limitation, and every form of discord and inharmony are admitted to our lives. It is therefore through the objective mind—by wrong thinking—that we are related to all destructive forces."

-- Charles F. Haanel


"If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents."

-- Hortense Canady


"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

-- Frederico Fellini


"At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us."

-- George Leonard

Start Point of Achievement

"The starting point of all achievement is definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude.  Remember this statement and ask yourself, what is my goal?  What do I really want?"

-- W. Clement Stone



"Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do."

-- Roger Babson


"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis


"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch."

-- E.E. Cummings

You Are Human Magnet

"You are a human magnet and you are constantly attracting to you people whose characters harmonize with your own"

-- Napoleon Hill


"All of the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms." 
-- Blaise Pascal


"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

-- John Wooden


"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

-- Joyce Carol Oates