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“What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
Stephen Richards
“Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.”
Criss Jami
“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”
Steve Maraboli
“We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”
Steve Maraboli
“You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.”
Steve Maraboli
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”
Steve Maraboli
“A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.”
Steve Maraboli
“Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.”
E.A. Bucchianeri
“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.”
Amit Kalantri
“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”
Bhagavad Gita
“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.”
Steve Maraboli
“Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart”
Ayn Rand
“Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.”
Stephen Richards
“Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.”
Stephen Richards
“When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference. You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe... your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.”
Roy T. Bennett
“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”
Sanhita Baruah
“Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.”
Amit Kalantri
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.”
Steve Maraboli
“Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.”
Stephen Richards
“I’ll detach myself from the crowd if it hinders my growth, I’ll fall from the tree that won’t let me grow.”
Hareem Ch
“I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs”
Les Brown
“Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
Princess Diana
“No one rises to low expectations”
Les Brown
“Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?”
Steve Maraboli
“When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.”
Sanober Khan
“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.”
Amit Kalantri
“One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.”
Steve Maraboli
“By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.”
Steve Maraboli
“You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.”
Amit Ray
“It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others.”
Steve Maraboli
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
John Steinbeck
“How would your life be different if...You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day...You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.”
Steve Maraboli
“Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.”
Steve Maraboli
“Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.”
Steve Maraboli
“You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.”
Steve Maraboli
“Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto”
Steve Maraboli
“It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”
John Lubbock
“The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.”
Roy T. Bennett
“How would your life be different if...You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day...You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.”
Steve Maraboli
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity”
Steve Maraboli
“If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
Steve Maraboli
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
Amit Kalantri
“Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.”
Germany Kent
“It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”
Les Brown
“Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”
Amit Kalantri
“All worries are less with wine.”
Amit Kalantri
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
Les Brown
“When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.”
Amit Kalantri
“You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.”
Les Brown
“Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself”
Tye Lewis
“The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.”
Steve Maraboli
“Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.”
Sarah Wylie
“Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.”
Steve Maraboli
“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
Henry Ford
“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.”
Steve Maraboli
“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.”
Steve Maraboli
“Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.”
Steve Maraboli
“Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!”
Steve Maraboli
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
Sidney Poitier
“Live your vision and demand your success.”
Steve Maraboli
“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.”
Jennifer Starzec
“Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.”
Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.”
Steve Maraboli
“Search for contentment in each person you meet.”
Steve Maraboli
“Change is the parent of progress.”
Steve Maraboli
“What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!”
Steve Maraboli
“The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.”
Stephen Richards
“Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.”
Steve Maraboli
“When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.”
Steve Maraboli
“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”
William James
“Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!”
K.M. Johnson
“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
“Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.”
Steve Maraboli
“Just because I'm doing what I love, doesn't mean It's always going to be fun.”
Tsubasa Yamaguchi
“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
Ernest Shackleton
“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”
Les Brown
“you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great”
Les Brown
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.”
Les Brown
“If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice”
Anonymous
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”
Roy T. Bennett
“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
Flora Rheta Schreiber
“The only easy day was yesterday.”
US Navy SEALs
“Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The beginning is always NOW.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.”
Steve Maraboli
“Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness”
Steve Maraboli
“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
Amit Kalantri
“Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.”
Steve Maraboli
“Dream big. Wake up. Take the first step into the unknown.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.”
Steve Maraboli
“A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.”
Steve Maraboli
“When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.”
Steve Maraboli
“Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success!”
Steve Maraboli
“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it!”
Steve Maraboli
“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”
Stephen King