Daily Affirmations
Monday Affirmations
| You
cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry;
for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. |
Demosthenes |
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| Grief is
the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Habit is
habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs
a step at a time. |
Mark Twain |
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| Don't be
too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make the better. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Give not
over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness
of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. |
Ecclesiastes |
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| Self-respect
is the cornerstone of all virtue. |
John Herschel |
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| Try not
to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The
reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or
ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell
you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be
sharing the adventure with them. |
Denis Watley |
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| Any
change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise
you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the
situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in
life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always
have a choice and the choice can be power. |
Blaine Lee |
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| Happiness
is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's
values. |
Ayn Rand |
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| When you
come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| You
can’t leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. |
American proverb |
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| There
came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than
the risk it took to blossom. |
Anais Nin |
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| I was
always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from
within. It is there all the time. |
Anna Freud |
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| Creativity
comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. |
Rita Mae Brown |
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| To put
the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the
nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in
order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our
hearts right. |
Confucius |
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| While
one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making
mistakes and becoming superior. |
Henry C. Link |
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| If
someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would
have left them long ago. |
Carla Gordon |
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| There is
nothing like a dream to create the future. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Most
folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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| Love and
kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one
who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. |
Barbara De Angelis |
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| Hope is
both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of
being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where
confidence is wounded, trust impaired. |
Erik H. Erikson |
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| The
first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what
you want. |
Ben Stein |
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| The
purpose of life is a life of purpose. |
Robert Byrne |
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| The
trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we
make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. |
Carlos Castaneda |
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| Slow
down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. |
Eddie Cantor |
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| It takes
a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the
new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is
more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life,
and in change there is power. |
Alan Cohen | |
| Do not
weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. |
Baruch Spinoza | |
| The only
real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. |
John Powell | |
| Yesterday
is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we
call it the present. |
Babatunde Olatunji | |
| People
grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is
how character is built. |
Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| First
say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
Epictetus | |
| Respect
yourself and others will respect you. |
Confucius | |
| But
there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But
it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than
to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. |
Paulo Coelho | |
| Don't
waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well
assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Character
- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source
from which self respect springs. |
Joan Didion | |
| Whatever
is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance,
wisdom, and power. |
Stephen Covey | |
| It is
common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and
try another. But above all, try something. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| The
person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and
aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. |
Cecil B. DeMille | |
| Conflict
cannot survive without your participation. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| There is
not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to
our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual
novel, a book for each person. |
Anais Nin | |
| If you
do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. |
Tony Robbins | |
| We must
make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real
selves. |
Thomas Merton | |
| A strong
positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. |
Patricia Neal | |
| We can
draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| How we
spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |
Annie Dillard | |
| Cherish
all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. |
Christopher Morley | |
| Kind
words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. |
Blaise Pascal | |
| Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor
learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to
keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and
distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in
life. |
Harry Emerson Fosdick | |
| The only
cure for grief is action. |
George Henry Lewes | |
| When you
get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as
though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is
just the place and time that the tide will turn. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| Most
folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Tuesday Affirmations
| I know
the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to
the things you want to see happen. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| Don't
brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. |
Leo Buscaglia | |
| Good
habits result from resisting temptation. |
Ancient Proverb | |
| Keep
love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the
flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth
and richness to life that nothing else can bring. |
Oscar Wilde | |
| You
don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how
you're going to live. Now. |
Joan Baez | |
| We all
have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the
successes. |
Randy K. Milholland | |
| To
accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan,
but also believe. |
Anatole France | |
| We all
live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet
the same. |
Anne Frank | |
| Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. | Demosthenes | |
| People
spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle
dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the
emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to
search was within. |
Ramona L. Anderson | |
| Independence
is happiness. |
Susan B. Anthony | |
| The
dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion
is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our
case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. |
Abraham Lincoln | |
| The most
important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up
what you are for what you might become. |
W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| If your
success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not
feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. |
Anna Quindlen | |
| Human
beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer
aspects of their lives. |
William James | |
| When
everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes
off against the wind, not with it. |
Henry Ford | |
| Forgive
yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. |
Les Brown | |
| Go for
it now. The future is promised to no one. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| Many
persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. |
Helen Keller | |
| When you
come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the
darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall
happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be
taught to fly. |
Edward Teller | |
| Problems
are only opportunities with thorns on them. |
Hugh Miller | |
| We all
have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the
successes. |
Randy K. Milholland | |
| History,
despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage,
need not be lived again. |
Maya Angelou | |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but
no one thinks of changing himself |
Leo Tolstoy | |
| Sometimes
it's hard to avoid the happiness of others. |
David Assael | |
| Live
neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your
entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. |
Sir William Osler | |
| A goal
without a plan is just a wish. |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |
| There's
only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's
your own self. |
Aldous Huxley | |
| Take
rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. |
Ovid | |
| Few
things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not
by strength, but perseverance. |
Samuel Johnson | |
| Destroying
is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things
eventually lose their effectiveness and die. |
Anonymous | |
| Don't
compromise yourself. You are all you've got. |
Janis Joplin | |
| Only I
can change my life. No one can do it for me. |
Carol Burnett | |
| Love the
animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will
perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin
to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the
whole world with an all-embracing love. |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| When I
dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it
becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. |
Audre Lorde | |
| No man
is happy who does not think himself so. |
Publilius Syrus | |
| If one
is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is
out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| Happiness
cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the
spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. |
Denis Waitley | |
| Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. | Patricia Sampson | |
| Then,
without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new
day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do
this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it
must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong. |
Anne Frank | |
| We are
either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as
remaining stationary in this life. |
James Freeman Clarke | |
| Look at
a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you
lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've
done it. |
Margaret Thatcher | |
| Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. | Rachel Carson | |
| My will
shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but
my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost
in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key
to my destiny. |
Elaine Maxwell | |
| Of
course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional
acceptance of life and what it brings. |
Arthur Rubinstein | |
| Nothing
will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. |
Samuel Johnson | |
| Knowing
is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Energy
is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by
maintaining focus. |
Oprah Winfrey | |
| Change
does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires
change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new
wants and the ability to satisfy them. |
Henry Steele Commager | |
| A man
who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. |
Cardinal De Retz | |
| God
doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. |
Mother Teresa | |
| Shoot
for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. |
Les Brown |
Wednesday Affirmations
| The
farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. |
Isabelle Eberhardt | |
| You
always pass failure on the way to success. |
Mickey Rooney | |
| I do not
think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. |
Abraham Lincoln | |
| I long
to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along,
not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the
tiny pushes of each honest worker. |
Helen Keller | |
| Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. |
Henry Ford | |
| People
are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not
inspire them. |
Tony Robbins | |
| Life
lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. |
Leo Buscaglia | |
| I cannot
always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on
inside. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| That
which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become
easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| No
person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. |
Alice Walker | |
| The
foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his
feet. |
James Oppenheim | |
| My
happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's
behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being. |
Michelle Obama | |
| There is
more to life than increasing its speed. |
Mahatma Ghandi | |
| I have
learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting
to satisfy them. |
John Stuart Mills | |
| Even if
you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there! |
Will Rogers | |
| Assert
your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections,
that's their fault. |
Dr. David M. Burns | |
| There is
a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have
often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift
one's position, and be bruised in a new place. |
Washington Irving | |
| Motivation
is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. |
Jim Ryun | |
| Be not
afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help
create the fact. |
Henry James | |
| What it lies in our power to do, it lies in
our power not to do. |
Aristotle | |
| Attitude
is a little thing that makes a big difference. |
Unknown | |
| Good
people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. |
William Saroyan | |
| Every
great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the
strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the
world. |
Harriet Tubman | |
| But what
is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? |
Albert Camus | |
| As I see
it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in
yourself. |
Adelle Davis | |
| The eye
sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. |
Henri Bergson | |
| We tend
to judge others by their behaviors and ourselves by our intentions. |
Stephen Covey | |
| The difference between a mountain and a
molehill is your perspective. |
Al Neuharth | |
| What
lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what
lies within us. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| I have
long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and
that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. |
Dorothy Day | |
| You
cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself
one. |
James A. Froude | |
| What man
actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and
struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of
tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be
fulfilled by him. |
Victor Frankl | |
| Do not
spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you
now have was once among the things you only hoped for. |
Epicurus | |
| Your
attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. |
Zig Ziglar | |
| If you
change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| When you
are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody
will respect you. |
Lao Tzu | |
| Success
consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. |
Winston Churchill | |
| Remember
that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. |
Roy M. Goodman | |
| I cannot
say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must
change if they are to get better. |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | |
| Make the
most of yourself for that is all there is of you. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Manage
change and conflict or it will manage you. |
Terry Paulson | |
| There is
very little difference in people - but that little difference makes a big
difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether
it is positive or negative. |
W. Clement Stone | |
| The
thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing
makes it happen. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| The
person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and
aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. |
Cecil B. DeMille | |
| You
can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. |
Jack London | |
| Look not
mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the
present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| We can
complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes
have roses. |
Abraham Lincoln | |
| Pick
battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. |
Jonathan Kozol | |
| You
cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances
unless you change. |
Les Brown | |
| The
problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how
to get old ones out. |
Dee Hock | |
| Every
one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough. |
Greta Garbo | |
| If you
have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for
you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. |
Mary Pickford |
Thursday Affirmations
| You
really can change the world if you care enough. |
Marian Wright Edelmand | |
| To be
without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. |
Bertrand Russell | |
| When we
feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and
cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. |
HH the Dalai Lama | |
| Be who
you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind
and those who mind don't matter. |
Dr. Seuss | |
| Believe
in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to
believe with you. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| Life
grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. |
Horace | |
| There's
no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. |
Sydney Harris | |
| Before
you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you
could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one
thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling
to it through thick and thin. |
Kathleen Norris | |
| They say
that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. |
Andy Warhol | |
| Be glad
of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to
look up at the stars. |
Henry Van Dyke | |
| The
capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the
capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual
will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his
own. |
Eric Hoffer | |
| You are
always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. |
Diane von Furstenberg | |
| Nothing
is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. |
Henry Ford | |
| We are
still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. |
Winston Churchill | |
| If you
haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? |
Dolores Huerta | |
| Seek
first to understand, then to be understood. |
Stephen Covey | |
| Un-being
dead isn't being alive. |
e. e. cummings | |
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
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Coco Chanel | |
| Maxim
for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| Be sure
you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. |
Abraham Lincoln | |
| Our
greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. |
Confucius | |
| The
easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is
what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. |
Leo Buscaglia | |
| The man
who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. |
Roy L. Smith | |
| Love the
moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. |
Corita Kent | |
| Our
doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing
to attempt. |
Jane Addams | |
| The
Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for. |
Allan K. Chalmers | |
| When I
do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. |
Abraham Lincoln | |
| Aim for
success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then
you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your
life. |
Dr. David M. Burns | |
| The
important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by
perfect men. |
George Eliot | |
| Diamonds
are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. |
Malcolm S. Forbes | |
| Look, I
don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got
to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the
very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and
colorfully, or you're not alive. |
Mel Brooks | |
| Worrying
is like a rocking chair...its gives you something to do, but you end up going
nowhere. |
Unknown | |
| Procrastination
is an enemy of progress but an ally of regrets. |
Rebekkah Lana | |
| Having
once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and
distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor
is immense. |
Arnold Bennett | |
| Happiness
comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. |
Buddha | |
| Those
who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. |
James M. Barrie | |
| Whatever
games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 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 | |
| Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become
great. |
Mark Twain | |
| This
life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. |
William James | |
| Even
though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on
the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the
hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it
takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it
you would let go of today? |
Mary Manin Morrissey | |
| It concerns us to know the purposes we seek
in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more
likely to attain what we want. |
Aristotle | |
| Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
George Santayana | |
| Change
is inevitable, except from vending machines. |
Anonymous | |
| The best
way out is always through. |
Robert Frost | |
| With
courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. |
Keshavan Nair | |
| Depend
not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of
self-reliance. |
The laws of Manu | |
| Many an
optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. |
Robert G. Allen | |
| It's not
so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's
that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes.
It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. |
Marilyn Ferguson | |
| I prefer
to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others,
rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. |
Frederick Douglass | |
| Just
because you are sitting in the shade of a tree doesn't mean that the tree
isn't beautiful and that the sun isn't shining. |
Jennifer DeFrance | |
| In
character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is
simplicity. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| I am
comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed
new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is
good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. |
Pearl S. Buck |
Friday Affirmations
| To
succeed, we must first believe that we can. |
Michael Korda | |
| Those
who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try
nothing and succeed. |
Lloyd Jones | |
| You see,
in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they
know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. |
Tony Robbins | |
| Self-worth
comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| A
successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much
above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of
aspiration. |
Kurt Lewin | |
| People
grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is
how character is built. |
Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| To free
us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there
lies the great, singular power of self-respect. |
Joan Didion | |
| Treasure
your relationships, not your possessions. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
| The very
least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the
most you can do is live inside that hope. |
Barbara Kingsolver | |
| You've
got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed
with satisfaction. |
George Horace Lorimer | |
| Do not
let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
John Wooden | |
| The best
thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. |
Abraham Lincoln | |
| Formulate
and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek
to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. |
Norman Vincent Peale | |
| Become a
student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
| There is
no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in
someone's life. |
Sister Mary Rose McGeady | |
| Love
life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. |
Arthur Rubinstein | |
| We must
not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the
small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big
differences that we often cannot foresee. |
Marian Wright Edelman | |
| Mistakes
are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are:
precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. |
Al Franken | |
| Discipline
isn't just punishing, forcing compliance or stamping out bad behavior.
Rather, discipline has to do with teaching proper deportment, caring about
others, controlling oneself and putting someone else's wishes before one's
own when the occasion calls for it. |
Lawrence Balter | |
| Consider
the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one
thing till it gets there. |
Josh Billings | |
| When you
relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. |
Nicole Kidman | |
| Kind
words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. |
Mother Teresa | |
| If
you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking,
eventually you'll make progress. |
Barack Obama | |
| Small
opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. |
Demosthenes | |
| Worry
never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. |
Leo Buscaglia | |
| To love
deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. |
Anne-Sophie Swetchine | |
| Character
may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. |
Phillip Brooks | |
| Never
give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| There's
a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing
something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to
something, you accept no excuses, only results. |
Art Turock | |
| The
foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his
feet. |
James Oppenheim | |
| Kind
words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. |
Mother Theresa | |
| When it
is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust
the action steps. |
Confucius | |
| Yesterday
I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. |
Bernadette Devlin | |
| I prayed
for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. |
Frederick Douglass | |
| No act
of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. |
Aesop | |
| The
colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will
work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend
on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional
context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when
they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are
pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to
overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. |
Edwin H. Friedman | |
| The
pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty. |
Winston Churchill | |
| What is
the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. |
HH the Dalai Lama | |
| No one,
Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Never give it. |
Marian Wright Edelman | |
| Most of
us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need
only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. |
Jerome P. Fleishman | |
| The more
one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine
may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and
understanding companionship. |
Amelia Earhart | |
| If you
have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for
you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. |
Mary Pickford | |
| The
chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is
unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by
realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or
mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of
conduct to principles. |
Arnold Bennett | |
| It has
been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others
waste. |
Henry Ford | |
| The best
way to prepare for life is to begin to live. |
Elbert Hubbard | |
| If there
is no struggle, there is no progress. |
Frederick Douglass | |
| You
cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the
attitudes to fit those situations. |
Zig Ziglar | |
| You are
important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| The best
way to predict the future is to invent it. |
Alan Kay | |
| No
person has the right to rain on your dreams. |
Marian Wright Edelman | |
| If you think you can, you can. And if you
think you can't, you're right. |
Henry Ford | |
| Chance
is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least
expect it, there will be a fish. |
Ovid | |
| Learn
wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off
through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. |
Stephen Sigmund |
Saturday Affirmations
| Happiness
belongs to the self-sufficient |
Aristotle | |
| If we
did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. |
Thomas Alva Edison | |
| Experience
teaches only the teachable. |
Aldous Huxley | |
| Change
alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. |
Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| You
can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in
either one. |
John Wooden | |
| Remember
there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple
with no logical end. |
Scott Adams | |
| How we
spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |
Annie Dillard | |
| Aerodynamically
the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that
so it goes on flying anyway. |
Mary Kay Ash | |
| Energy
and persistence conquer all things. |
Benjamin Franklin | |
| The self
is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through
choice of action. |
John Dewey | |
| Don't go
around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was
here first. |
Mark Twain | |
| A man
who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. |
Charles Darwin | |
| Real joy
comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing
something worthwhile. |
Sir Wilfred Grenfell | |
| Greatness
is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not
drift, nor lie at anchor. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Success
is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love
what you are doing, you will be successful. |
Albert Schweitzer | |
| It may
be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for
it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And
you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be
hatched or go bad. |
C. S. Lewis | |
| If you
are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any
moment. |
Marcus Aurelius | |
| Life
consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. |
Josh Billings | |
| Don't be
discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a
sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false
leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience
points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. |
John Keats | |
| I have
one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to
choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith.
Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable
work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands
that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can
with whatever I have to try to make a difference. |
Jimmy Carter | |
| There
are no gains without pains. |
Benjamin Franklin | |
| All my
growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right
thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid
judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you
want to do with your life. |
Barbara Jordan | |
| You
leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need
for this in my life'. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| Begin
with the end in mind. |
Stephen Covey | |
| You
can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. |
Henry Ford | |
| I
believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is
not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your
future. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision. |
Howard Schultz | |
| We find
no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and
goals to achieve. |
Maxwell Maltz | |
| It is
not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but
the one most responsive to change. |
Charles Darwin | |
| This is
the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as
a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the
scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little
clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote
itself to making you happy. |
George Bernard Shaw | |
| First
say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
Epictetus | |
| The
happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise
of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. |
Bertrand Russel | |
| They
cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. |
Mohandas K. Gandhi | |
| If there
is no wind, row. |
Unknown | |
| Life
doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. |
H. Jackson Brown | |
| Become a
possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise
your sights and see the possibilities. |
Norman Vincent Peale | |
| Men
spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at
some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over
every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not
come. |
Charles Caleb Colton | |
| There is
only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you. |
David Burns | |
| If you
don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your
attitude. |
Maya Angelou | |
| There
are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength
and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on
me.' |
Andre Gide | |
| If we
had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes
taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. |
Anne Bradstreet | |
| Success
is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. |
Robert Collier | |
| Happiness
is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the
by-product of other activities. |
Aldous Huxley | |
| The mind
is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of
Heaven. |
John Milton | |
| It 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 Lama | |
| You
cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| In the
absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. |
Robert Heinlein | |
| A
sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full
potential? |
Jane Wagner | |
| Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. |
Mark Twain | |
| People
often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's
why we recommend it daily. |
Zig Ziglar | |
| If I
have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of
ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and
action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. |
Alex Noble | |
| Happiness
resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells
in the soul. |
Democritus | |
| You must
be the change you wish to see in the world. |
Mahatma Ghandi | |
| Happiness
is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's
values. |
Ayn Rand |
Sunday Affirmations
| Act as
if it were impossible to fail. |
Dorothea Brande | |
| What the
caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. |
Richard Bach | |
| By the
choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces
that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world
wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbors will find our
contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more
gracious for our time in it. |
Kenneth Patton (adapted) | |
| Gratitude
is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. |
Cicero | |
| The
first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the
third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. |
Solomon Ibn Gabriol | |
| Nothing
can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. |
Thomas Jefferson | |
| To find
what you seek in the road of life the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned." |
Edward Bulwer Lytton. | |
| Don't
find fault, find a remedy. |
Henry Ford | |
| Wherever
you go, go with all your heart. |
Confucius | |
| Experience
is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make
it again. |
Franklin P. Jones | |
| Change
means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a
nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive
friction of conflict. |
Saul Alinsky | |
| Action
may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. |
Benjamin Disraeli | |
| And as
we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to
do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically
liberates others. |
Marianne Williamson | |
| If you
don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. |
Zig Ziglar | |
| If we
don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. |
Gail Sheehy | |
| If you
want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,
practice compassion. |
Dalai Lama | |
| Focusing
your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too
little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. |
Barack Obama | |
| The
world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. |
Helen Keller | |
| In the
depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible
summer. |
Albert Camus | |
| A desire
presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a
goal which is worth achieving. |
Ayn Rand | |
| Besides
the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving
things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of
non-essentials. |
Lin Yutang | |
| There is
no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only
scarcity of resolve to make it happen. |
Wayne Dyer | |
| Mishaps
are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the
blade or the handle. |
James Russell Lowell | |
| Dost
thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made
of. |
Benjamin Franklin | |
| Oh, give
us pleasure in the flowers today;<br>And give us not to think so far
away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. |
Robert Frost | |
| To will
is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that
goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is
action. |
Michael Hanson | |
| Change
will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the
ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. |
Barack Obama | |
| Courage,
it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune,
fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its
sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our
understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. |
Dorothy Thompson | |
| To follow without halt, one aim; there is
the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the
applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of
accomplishment. |
Anna Pavlova | |
| I care
not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by
myself, and not by borrowing. |
Michel de Montaigne | |
| People,
even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and
redeemed; never throw out anyone. |
Audrey Hepburn | |
| If you
wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your
wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. |
Joseph Addison | |
| It's
faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth
living. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Let your
hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a
fish. |
Ovid | |
| It is
only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. |
Margaret Bonnano | |
| You gain
strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived
through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do
the thing you think you cannot do. |
Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Love the
moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It
affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is
to succeed. |
Corita Kent | |
| To fly,
we have to have resistance. |
Michael Korda | |
| Once you
choose hope, any thing's possible. |
Christopher Reeve | |
| What
everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. |
Baruch Spinoza | |
| You will
never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You
will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. |
Albert Camus | |
| I don't
know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody. |
Bill Cosby | |
| Patience
and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish. |
John Quincy Adams | |
| What we
call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to
choose life. |
Leo Buscaglia | |
| Growth
itself contains the germ of happiness. |
Pearl S. Buck | |
| The big
secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can
get there if you're willing to work. |
Oprah Winfrey | |
| We could
never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. |
Helen Keller | |
| Opportunity
is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work. |
Thomas A. Edison | |
| I think
a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure
in spite of overwhelming obstacles. |
Christopher Reeve | |
| It's not
that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are
ready to change and others are not. |
James Gordon, M.D. |
