Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.
Nipsey HussleYou’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.
Dolly PartonThe greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl JungIt’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina JolieIf someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?
Joyce MeyerWhat comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.
Wayne DyerIf I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma GandhiIt was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Virginia WoolfMoney has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin FranklinMy freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.
Dwayne JohnsonEveryone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. LewisIf you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.
Taylor SwiftNot what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas CarlyleThere are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauI believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
Conor McGregorAim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
Bill ShanklyIt is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas JeffersonWhen you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim RohnWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleLet there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil GibranWe gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’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 GagaThe starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon HillWhat most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
VoltairePeople always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye WestIf we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
Thich Nhat HanhWatch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. PattonThe more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.
Kevin GatesIt is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert HubbardMilitary school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
Robert KiyosakiI exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
PlatoI’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.
Haruki MurakamiI was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert CamusYou know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James BaldwinWhat’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brene BrownI’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.
Dolly PartonWanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt CobainI have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.
Lana Del ReyI can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.
Taylor SwiftIf you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.
AuroraThe man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor RooseveltI think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.
Dwayne JohnsonI feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.
Alice MunroI was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Stephen HawkingI think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.
Taylor SwiftI had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Keanu ReevesLife guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.
Mr. TThe major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim RohnThe difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim RohnAim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LewisI love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan QuayleSecretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. RowlingSome virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph AddisonEveryone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt VonnegutTo observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.
Alexander PopeI never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha