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“You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
Roy T. Bennett
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
Steve Maraboli
“Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”
Roy T. Bennett
“7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important 1. Use their name.2. Express sincere gratitude.3. Do more listening than talking.4. Talk more about them than about you.5. Be authentically interested.6. Be sincere in your praise.7. Show you care.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”
Steve Maraboli
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
Steve Maraboli
“You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.”
Roy T. Bennett
“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
Stephen Richards
“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.”
Steve Maraboli
“Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.”
Roy T. Bennett
“It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.”
Tyler Perry
“Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.”
Roy T. Bennett
“When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
Steve Maraboli
“Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.”
Roy T. Bennett
“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
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.”
Roy T. Bennett
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
Steve Maraboli
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”
John Burroughs
“To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.”
Roy T. Bennett
“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”
Amit Kalantri
“It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.”
Steve Maraboli
“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Everything is hard before it is easy”
Goethe J.W.
“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”
Stephen Richards
“Great Leaders Create More LeadersGood leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
Steve Maraboli
“Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
Criss Jami
“Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
Ann Landers
“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
Criss Jami
“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
Roy T. Bennett
“No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
Steve Maraboli
“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.”
Jojo Moyes
“Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.”
Roy T. Bennett
“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Change course, but don’t give up.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”
Steve Maraboli
“No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.”
Roy T. Bennett
“If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.”
Steve Maraboli
“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
Amit Ray
“If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.”
Roy T. Bennett
“To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.”
Roy T. Bennett
“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one.”
Roy T. Bennett
“If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.”
Steve Maraboli
“You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.”
Roy T. Bennett
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Haruki Murakami
“Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones.”
Roy T. Bennett
“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”
Anthony Robbins
“When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.”
Stephen Richards
“...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”
Angie Sage
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.”
Bob Dylan
“You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.”
Roy T. Bennett
“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”
Steve Maraboli
“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
Criss Jami
“Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.”
Richelle Mead
“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”
Criss Jami
“The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts.”
John Paul Warren
“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.”
Steve Maraboli
“Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.”
Steve Maraboli
“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”
Steve Maraboli
“Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”
Steve Maraboli
“You have the ability to choose your reactions.”
Steve Maraboli
“Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.”
Steve Maraboli
“Times will change for the better when you change.”
Maxwell Maltz
“People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.”
Steve Maraboli
“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“Either you run the day or the day runs you..”
Jim Rohn
“Your opinion is not my reality.”
Steve Maraboli
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
Steve Maraboli
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
William Shakespeare
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
Amit Kalantri
“Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.”
Mark Manson