If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel KantI want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.
Joel OsteenIt is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel KantWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranI know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack ObamaI want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
Angelina JolieI have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence NightingaleBrad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.
Angelina JolieIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham LincolnWhen I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Marilyn MonroeTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan WattsIf you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.
Lady GagaWhoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘
Anne FrankMy entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Narendra ModiAt 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.
Conor McGregorNobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma GandhiThe drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor SwiftAs long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.
Robert KiyosakiDo not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Andrew CarnegieSelf-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Wayne DyerThat nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.
Jocko WillinkI do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham LincolnIt seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
John C. MaxwellNever let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Colin PowellTo meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
Thich Nhat HanhMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David ThoreauTo be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert CamusI always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.
Mark ZuckerbergThey would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert FrostI’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
David ByrneDo not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John RuskinThe greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander PopeI don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.
David BowieDo not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace ThackerayI must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda MeirI had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
Kendrick LamarWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallI do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonGive whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim RohnWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham MaslowMany years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert HooverYou have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor SwiftIt is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai LamaSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
ConfuciusIt is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTruly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise PascalI am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
Marilyn MonroeFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EpictetusIt’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.
Angelina JolieIt’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
Jordan PetersonWork harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim RohnIt is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George WashingtonWhen I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
Anthony BourdainI think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
Lady GagaI am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.
EminemGuarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.
Taylor SwiftMarriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
Marilyn MonroeI’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.
Lady GagaA career is born in public – talent in privacy.
Marilyn MonroeI never do anything that I don’t want to do.
Kevin Hart