"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."
--Greg Anderson (American Author)
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
--Mary Kay Ash (Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building."
--Robert Collier (American Publisher)
"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself."
--Noel Coward, 1899-1973 (British Writer)
"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing."
--Emma Goldman, 1869-1940 (American Politcal Activist)
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
--Wayne Dyer {American Author & Lecturer}
"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."
--Earl Gray Stevens
"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
--Barbara Sher (American Author)
"Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come."
--Og Mandino, 1923-1996 (American Motivational Author & Speaker)
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
--Claude Bernard, 1813-1878 (French Physiologist)
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
--Lao-Tzu, BC 600-? (Chinese Philosopher & Founder of Taoism)
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible!"
--Arthur C. Clarke
"I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views."
--Abraham Lincoln
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."
--Bhagavad Gita, c. BC 400 (Sanskrit Poem)
"Often the difference between a success and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act."
--Dr. Maxwell Maltz