It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Keanu ReevesI used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.
RihannaAll of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.
Michelle ObamaIt is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltAs we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. KennedyI’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.
Jim CarreyI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnI think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
Lou HoltzNothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van BeethovenA broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David ThoreauIf there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
Eckhart TolleNever in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
EpictetusI think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
Taylor SwiftKeep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John MuirExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice WalkerGrowing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy GrahamI don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.
Terry PratchettSometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.
David ByrneI vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.
John C. MaxwellBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
B. C. ForbesWhatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin FranklinPick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey HepburnAll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich NietzscheBeing ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.
Richard BransonThere’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
Matthew McConaugheyHowever great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Charles SpurgeonIf you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph AddisonThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMeditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne DyerI still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.
Jimmy BuffettWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark TwainThe devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.
Joyce MeyerAll the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise PascalRelationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian TracyI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaWhen you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Bob MarleyYou have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
David GogginsI 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 NightingaleYour entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.
Eckhart TolleThe world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas JeffersonThere’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
Joyce MeyerSo long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack ObamaIf you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret ThatcherDo the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale CarnegieBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan PoeI am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
Wayne Dyer‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘
Elizabeth KennyI pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.
J. K. RowlingI don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.
Stephen HawkingI want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.
Sunil ChhetriA woman has the age she deserves.
Coco ChanelDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Blaise PascalBefore I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper LeeI believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.
Joel OsteenAs long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston ChurchillWhen a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles DickensLife is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
Alice Walker