“A good marriage is when you’re married not to someone you can live with, but to someone you really cannot live without.”
– Dr. Howard Hendricks
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.”
– Socrates
“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
– B. C. Forbes
“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
– Japanese Proverb
“During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
– Bernard Baruch
“Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.”
– Spanish proverb
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.”
– Michel de Montaigne
“Just because you’ve made mistakes doesn’t mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself and move on.”
– Robert Tew
“Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren’t traditionally ‘beautiful’ — not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor and comfort with themselves. I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.”
– Emma Stone
“No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.”
– Drake
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
– Henry Drummond
“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
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
– Arnold Glasow
“It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.”
– Henry Doherty
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
– Henry J. Kaiser
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.”
– Jacqueline Cochran
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel
“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”
– Diane Arbus
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. “
– Thomas Carlyle
“It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
– Jackie Joyner Kersee
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
– William Arthur Ward
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances.”
– Alberto Salazar
“There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee
“The more you help others, the faster you will get results.”
– Catherine Gordon
“Figure out what you want. Focus on it. Find people who have achieved what you want and find out how they think and act, and then follow their lead.”
– Bill Harris
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
– Anthony Robbins