What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich NietzscheNever succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.
DrakeVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles DickensIf you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim RohnThe unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore RooseveltI’m afraid to fail again.
Jackie ChanThe only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert CamusEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinOur plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
Narendra ModiI 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 RussellWhether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Michelle ObamaI 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 KrishnamurtiThere are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.
Joyce MeyerEspecially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.
Nelson MandelaEducation comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Napoleon HillBy 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 TzuIf you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
Joel OsteenConfidence comes from discipline and training.
Robert KiyosakiGood 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 VinciWhen I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
Edmund HillaryOnly strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.
Thich Nhat HanhIn the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William JamesEven as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.
Nipsey HussleYou must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas CarlyleAll major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai LamaWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus AureliusThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouIf your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonThe 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 KafkaYou have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham LincolnI’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonNo change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSomeone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
Bruno MarsTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston ChurchillYou can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.
Taylor SwiftAll the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon HillI’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
Kurt VonnegutReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeMany people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.
Brene BrownMy moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
Kendrick LamarDo whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
Ray BradburyThe possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard ShawTo avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert HubbardWhat is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Maya AngelouThe greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SocratesI hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.
Abby Lee MillerDo what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Henry David ThoreauBut what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
Barack ObamaNo one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander PopeForgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark TwainWithout tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin DisraeliIf we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill