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Quotes December 16, 2020

Courtesy of Henrik at Positivity Blog

 
 
“To some, it’s Hump Day. To us, it’s Wednesday’s getting its ass kicked and Thursday just asking Friday to switch places.”
Dwayne Johnson
 
 
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
“Wednesdays will always bring smiles for the second half of the week.”
Anthony T. Hincks
 
 
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”
John Wyndham
 
 
“What’s in a Wednesday?
You! That’s who!
Happy Wednesday. ”
Anthony T. Hincks
 
 
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson
 
 
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
 
 

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John R. Wooden
 
 
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Confucius
 
 
“Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others. One smile not only increases your value but it gives joy to each person you meet.”
Byron Pulsifer
 
 
“Wednesday: Halfway to the weekend! Enjoy your day!”
Unknown
 
 
“Keep Calm. It’s only Wednesday. We still have 2 more days to go.”
Unknown

Quotes December 09, 2020

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

”Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai

“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.
Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
Kristen Zambucka

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
George Eliot

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
Abraham Maslow

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Victor Frankl

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
Ann Landers

“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
Ginni Rometty

“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.”
Alain de Botton

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
Isaac Asimov

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
Gail Sheehy

“Change, like healing, takes time.”
Veronica Roth

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
Anne Enright

“If I am an advocate for anything, it is to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.”
Anthony Bourdain

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.”
Andy Warhol

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
Aldous Huxley

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
Denis Waitley

Quotes November 02, 2020

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
Tony Robbins

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer

“A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.”
Spanish Proverb

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
Jacob M. Braude

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.”
Arnold Bennett

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
Martin Luther

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Paulo Coelho

Quotes October 04, 2020

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
Mary Engelbreit
 
 
 
 
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
Carol Burnett
 
 
 
 
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.”
Joyce Meyer
 
 
 
 
“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
Estée Lauder
 
 
 
 
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
Tuli Kupferberg
 
 
 
 
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships are built”
John A. Shedd
 
 
 
 
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
Arthur Golden
 
 
 
 
“You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“When in doubt, choose change.”
Lily Leung
 
 
 
 
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen
 
 
 
 
“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
Barbara Kingsolver
 
 
 
 
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
Chinese proverb

Quotes March 30, 2020

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
Viggo Mortensen
 
 
 
 
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.”
David Allen
 
 
 
 
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca
 
 
 
 
“Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.”
Ziggy Marley
 
 
 
 
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
William James
 
 
 
 
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
John Newton
 
 
 
 
“It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid
 
 
 
 
“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”
Hans Selye
 
 
 
 
“There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.”
Garson Kanin
 
 
 
 

“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”
Nelson DeMille
 
 
 
 
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.”
Tao Porchon-Lynch
 
 
 
 
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
David Mamet
 
 
 
 

“Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”
Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
Lou Holtz
 
 
 
 
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
“Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.”
Andrew Bernstein
 
 
 
 
“The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.”
Katrina Mayer
 
 
 
 
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
“If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved then worrying will do you no good.”
Shantideva
 
 
 
 
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
Najwa Zebian
 
 
 
 
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.”
Osho
 
 
 
 
“If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.”
Renee Jain
 
 
 
 
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
 
 
 
”People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
“In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
Chinese proverb
 
 
 
 
“Give your stress wings and let it fly away.”
Terri Guillemets
 
 
 
 
“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”
James Allen
 
 
 
 
“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”
Matt Haig
 
 
 
 
“That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
Hans Selye
 
 
 
 
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.”
Abraham Twerski
 
 
 
 
“The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.”
Andrew Bernstein
 
 
 
 

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
Henry Ward Beecher
 
 
 
 
“How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.”
Catherine Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. “
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson
 
 
 
 
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
Dean Smith
 
 
 
 
“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell
 
 
 
 
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
Peter Marshall
 
 
 
 
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock
 
 
 
 
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”
Robert Eliot
 
 
 
 
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
Winnie the Pooh

Quotes December 21, 2019

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart!”
Eskimo proverb
 
 
 
 

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 

“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.”
Eric Hoffer
 
 
 
 

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”
Charles Richards
 
 
 
 

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Quotes November 24, 2019

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
Seneca
 
 
 
 
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton
 
 
 
 
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”
Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
 
 
 
 
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
Unknown

Quotes July 17, 2019

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg, The Positivity Blog

 
 

“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 
 
“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.”
Edith Schaeffer
 
 
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer… Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris
 
 
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
“Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotes June 25, 2019

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
“Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It’s important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.”
Robert Herjavek
 
 
”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
Brian Tracy
 
 
“Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”
Robert Eliot
 
 
“Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.”
Jayson Engay
 
 
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
Dean Smith
 
 
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
John Newton
 
 
”People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn’t the real problem. The real problem is that we don’t trust.”
L.J. Vanier
 
 
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
“It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
 
 
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.”
Erma Bombeck
 
 
“Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.”
Diane Mariechild
 
 
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
 
 
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

Quotes June 10, 2019

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
– David Allen

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days—which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”
– Victor Hugo

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.”
– Tim Ferriss

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
– Lao Tzu

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
– David Allen

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
– Colin Powell

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Morning not only forgives, it forgets.”
– Marty Rubin

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.”
– Les Brown

”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
– John Burroughs

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
– Maya Angelou

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
– John Steinbeck

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
– Drew Barrymore

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
– Larry King

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
– Anthony Robbins

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
– Andrew Matthews

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
— Kristen Neff

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer