If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
Joyce MeyerWhat you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. ForbesThere are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldPeace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
Joyce MeyerA shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. ForbesIf small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart TolleThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George EliotBe happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Ariana GrandeIf you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
Joel OsteenI believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo CoelhoI’m not the most patient of people.
Kobe BryantAlways remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. NixonHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor DostoevskyI allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.
Lady GagaThere are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.
Lando NorrisThings won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William ShakespeareI don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
DrakeThe curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
PlatoIt has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
Lady GagaIdleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz KafkaFear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert HubbardThe difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. MaxwellThe resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEach one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma GandhiIn a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya AngelouThere are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.
Jocko WillinkYou can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltI’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.
Jordan PetersonThe greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin DisraeliI could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘
Christopher HitchensIf you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin DisraeliThe doer alone learneth.
Friedrich NietzscheA man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
Lady GagaPeople may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.
Steven WrightI never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.
Stephen CurryBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin FranklinIt is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert HubbardI need to keep working on myself for a while.
EminemI couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.
The WeekndIt’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
Frank OceanI got my own back.
Maya AngelouI’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
Gordon RamsayTransformation literally means going beyond your form.
Wayne DyerWhat we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne DyerI’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
Taylor SwiftReversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert HubbardReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinSet up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
Brian EnoWe forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles DickensExperience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous HuxleyI am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.
EminemAbsolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
Matthew McConaugheyIf a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. PattonMy own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin PowellI think my vice would be outdoing myself.
Kendrick LamarWe are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen CoveyI have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
Harper LeeSome men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Gilbert K. Chesterton