The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
PlatoLet the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry FordNobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
Clint EastwoodIf someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.
Taylor SwiftGood men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciI know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne DyerA merry heart doeth good like medicine.
King SolomonThe relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.
Franz KafkaI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThings won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William ShakespeareIf I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
ConfuciusOur words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.
Joyce MeyerAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry FordEach of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Pope FrancisBy letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao TzuIt is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Charles SpurgeonIf you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
Ray BradburyIt’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?
Jocko WillinkThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusSinging aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
Brian EnoAdopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
Jordan PetersonRemind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
Wayne DyerIf you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao TzuIt’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.
Richard M. NixonLet us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BonoAmbition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
Robert GreeneI hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.
Abby Lee MillerOnce someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
Jordan PetersonHe who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan ThomasWe may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma GandhiTo become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
J. K. RowlingIt is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel JohnsonNever stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinI want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.
Sunil ChhetriThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotEngineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert HooverWhen your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
John C. MaxwellBy taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel JohnsonWhen you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
Wayne DyerTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaMy reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard ShawDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleOnce we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert EinsteinPeace begins with a smile.
Mother TeresaIf you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon BonaparteI do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand RussellMy job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.
Karl LagerfeldA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce LeeI am absolutely my own biggest critic.
Lando NorrisI’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
Adam SandlerBefore you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.
David GogginsWhen something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.
Michelle ObamaWow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
Dave GrohlWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle