Honesty Quotes .

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
-- Hugh Prather

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
-- Joseph Sugarman

 

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
-- L. Ron Hubbard


Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
-- Brian Tracey


Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Mahatma Gandhi


Honest hearts produce honest actions.
-- Brigham Young


Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.   
-- Thomas Jefferson


I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
-- John McKay


I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
-- Lee Iacocca

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
-- Mary MacCracken

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
-- Paulo Coelho

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-- Walter Anderson

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
-- Richard J. Needham

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-- Oliver Wendell

Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there.
-- Chinese Proverbs

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
-- James Allen

The truth needs so little rehearsal.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault

Truth fears no questions.
-- Author Unknown

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
-- Vince Poscente

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Mark Twain

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
-- Pamela Ribon

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-- Bill Copeland

Heart Quotes.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
-- Octavio Paz

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
-- Mother Teresa

 

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-- Washington Irving

A person's world is only as big as their heart.
-- Tanya A. Moore

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
-- Carlos Castaneda

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
-- Aristotle

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
-- Mevlana Rumi

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
-- Shigenori Kameoka

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
-- Author Unknown

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
-- William Shakespeare

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
-- James Allen

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
-- Robert Tizon

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
-- Marc Chagall

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.
-- James A. Garfield

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
-- Author Unknown

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
-- Author Unknown

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
-- Author Unknown

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
-- James Earl Jones

Only do what your heart tells you.
-- Princess Diana

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-- Paulo Coelho

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
-- Author Unknown

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
-- Jacques Benigne Bossuel

The heart is forever making the head its fool.
-- François de la Rochefoucauld

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
-- Robert Valett

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-- Deepak Chopra

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.
-- Michael Nolan

What is uttered from the heart alone,
Will win the hearts of others to your own.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
-- Tori Amos

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucius

Habit Quotes.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
-- Frank A. Clark

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
-- Latin Proverb

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
-- Proverb

 

Character is long-standing habit.
-- Plutarch

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
-- Charles C. Noble

Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits.
-- Robert Puller

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

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
-- Nathaniel Emmons

Habit is stronger than reason.
-- George Santayana

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-- Jim Rohn

Nothing is stronger than habit.
-- Ovid

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
-- Stephen Covey

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
-- Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.
-- James Allen

Giving Quotes.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
-- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
 

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
-- Author Unknown

 

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
-- Maya Angelou
 

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
-- Flora Edwards
 

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
-- Mother Teresa
 

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
-- Robert A. Heinlein 
 

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
-- Frank A. Clark 
 

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-- Albert Camus 
 

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
-- Elbert Hubbard 
 

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
-- Benjamin Franklin 
 

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve."
-- Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell 
 

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
-- Albert Einstein 
 

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
-- Lao Tzu 
 

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
-- Nathaniel Branden 
 

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. 

-- Peyton Conway March
 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
 

Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever.
-- Dr. Wil Rose 
 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith Quotes.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
-- Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
-- Mother Teresa

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
-- Andre Gide

 

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
-- William W. Watt

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith is a passionate intuition.
-- William Wordsworth

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about "where" we shall land, but rather on the belief that we "shall" land.
-- Carter Heyward

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
-- David S. Muzzey

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
-- Author Unknown

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences.
-- Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.
-- Sherwood Eddy

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
-- Helen Keller

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-- Saint Augustine

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
-- C.S. Lewis

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
-- Robert Collyer

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
-- William James

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
-- Dan Millman

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
-- Philip Gulley

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
-- Elbert Hubbard

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
-- B.C. Forbes

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
-- George E Woodberry

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-- Gail Devers

Living without faith is like driving in a fog.
-- Proverb

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
-- Buddha

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
-- Erich Fromm

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-- Helen Keller

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-- Oscar Wilde

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
-- Ellen G White

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
-- Ralph Marston

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly.
-- Patrick Overton

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
-- Zig Ziglar

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
-- St Francis of Assisi

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Dream Quotes to Keep Your Dreams Alive

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
-- Denis Waitley

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-- Napoleon Hill

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-- Zadok Rabinwitz

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

 

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
-- Joseph Epstein

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
-- Lao Tzu

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
-- Og Mandino

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
-- Author Unknown

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
-- Astrid Alauda

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
-- Dale E. Turner

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
-- Vincent van Gogh

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
-- Jim Valvano

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
-- Jack London

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-- Flavia Weedn

If the dream is big enough the facts don't matter.
-- Dexter Yager

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
-- Richard M. DeVos

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
-- Joyce Chapman

Life is never easy for those who dream.
-- Robert James Waller

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
-- Karen Ravn

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
-- Author Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-- Pamela Vaull Starr

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
-- E. Y. Harburg

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!
-- Linda Staten

Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.
-- James Allen

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.-- Bernard Edmonds

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...
-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
-- Woodrow Wilson

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
-- Richard Bach

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-- C.S. Lewis

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-- Diana Ross

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-- Abdul Kalam
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
-- Billy Wilder

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
-- George Bernard Shaw

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows/ and has always known/ that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
-- Anthony Robbins

Creativity Quotes.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
-- Frank Capra

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso

Another word for creativity is courage.
-- George Prince

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
-- Alan Alda

 

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
-- Edward de Bono

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-- Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
-- Thomas Disch

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
-- William Plomer

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
-- Julia Cameron

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
-- Mae Jemison

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
-- Ray Bradbury

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
-- Bo Bennett

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
-- Louise Nevelson

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
-- Barthold Georg Niebuhr

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.
-- Gordon Mackenzie

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.
-- Joseph Badaracco

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
-- Tina Turner

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
-- George J. Seidel

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
-- Carl Jung

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.
-- Abe Tannenbaum

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-- Dee Hock

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-- Henry David Thoreau

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
-- Warren G. Bennis

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
-- Tori Amos

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
-- R. I. Fitzhenry

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Fuller

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!
-- Peter McWilliams
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.-- Madeleine L'Engle

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
-- Albert Einstein

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
-- Nietzsche

Powerful Courage Quotes.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
-- William Shedd

All art requires courage.
-- Anne Tucker

All serious daring starts from within.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
-- Author Unknown

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-- Paulo Coelho

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tse

Come to the edge,' he said.
They said, 'We are afraid.'
'Come to the edge,' he said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew.
-- Peter McWilliams

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
-- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
-- Dan Rather

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
-- John Wayne

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
-- Arthur Koestler

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.
-- Ken McGrath

Courage is not the towering oak
That sees storms come and go,
It is the fragile blossom
That opens in the snow
-- Alice MacKenzie Swaim

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
-- Tom Krause

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
-- Author Unknown

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-- Winston Churchill

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm:

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
-- Robert Cody

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
-- W. Clement Stone

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
-- Maya Angelou

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
-- Erma Bombeck

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.
-- Jewel

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Andre Gide

Many of our fears are tissue paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.
-- Brendan Francis

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
-- Maya Angelou

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
-- Joan of Arc

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.
-- Don Quixote

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
-- Dorothy Thompson

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
-- Peter Senge

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- R. G. Ingersoll

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-- Charles DuBois

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-- Helen Keller

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
-- Bernadette Devlin

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
-- Epicurus

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe Quotes to Inspire and Empower You.

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
-- Larry Flynt

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
-- Charles F. Kettering

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
-- Joe Paterno

Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.
-- Author Unknown

Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.
-- Ivana Trump

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
-- David Joseph Schwartz

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-- Buddha

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
-- Mary Kay Ash

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
-- Brian Tracy

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
-- Louisa May Alcott

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
-- Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
-- Oprah Winfrey

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.
-- Sasha Azevedo

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
-- Dale Carnegie

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
-- Denis Waitley

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
-- Mark Twain

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
-- Barbara De Angelis

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
-- Author Unknown

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
-- Anthony Robbins

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
-- Robert Collier

Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
-- Jack Canfield

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
-- George Sheehan

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
-- David Viscott

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
-- Freya Stark

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
-- William James

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
-- Louisa May Alcott

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-- Ezra Pound

 

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
-- Brian Tracy

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
-- Paul J. Meyer

You can do it if you believe you can!
-- Napoleon Hill

What's Real Beauty? Find Out from these Beauty Quotes.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-- Franz Kafka

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
-- Sophia Loren

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
-- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
-- Plato

 

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.
-- Nate Dircks

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
-- James Allen

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
-- John Muir

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-- Confucius

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
-- Louisa May Alcott

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
-- Sarah McLachlan

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
-- Leo Tolstoy

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
-- Ashley Smith

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Marianne Williamson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.
-- Author Unknown

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
-- Martin Buxbaum

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
-- Rosalind Russell

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
-- Helen Keller

The difference between pretty and beautiful is-pretty is temporal-whereas beautiful is eternal.
-- Author Unknown

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have knowndefeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
-- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-- Albert Einstein

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
-- Mary Baker Eddy

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.
-- Don Williams, Jr

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-- Anne Frank

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
-- Rachel Carson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
-- Kahlil Gibran

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
-- Marie Stopes

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.
-- Frank Kafka

Be Yourself Quotes to Let Yourself Shine in Your Scrapbooking Pages.

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.
-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
-- Johann von Goethe

 

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
-- Samuel Johnson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-- Judy Garland

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
-- Honoré de Balzac

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
-- Confucius

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
-- Julius Charles Hare

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-- Dr. Seuss

Being Myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of "Being Myself", so that I can see how it is I want to be.
-- Hugh Prather

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
---Theodore Roosevelt

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
-- H.F. Hedge

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
-- Shakti Gawain

Folks may call you different, they may say that you can't win, but it's not what's on the outside - It's what you have within!
-- Devin Peltier-Robson

Freedom lies in being bold.
-- Robert Frost

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
-- William Shakespeare

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
-- Raymond Hull

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
-- Pearl Bailey

I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am."
-- Oprah Winfrey

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.
-- Sally Field

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
-- Shirley MacLaine

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
-- Sylvia Plath

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
-- Johann von Goethe

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-- Author Unknown

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
- Louis Kronenberger

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
-- Andre Gide

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
-- K.T. Jong

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-- e.e. cummings

Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion.
-- Author Unknown

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
-- Fanny Brice

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-- Oscar Wilde

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
-- D.H. Lawrence

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
-- John Morley

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-- Thomas Szasz

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
-- Baltasar Gracian

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
-- Robin Casarjean

The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
-- Boris Pasternak
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
-- Julien Green

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
-- Leo Buscaglia

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
-- James Matthew Barrie

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
-- Todd Ruthman

There are 3 choices: you can either give up, give in, or give it your all!
-- Author Unnknown

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-- Anaïs Nin

There is just one life for each of us: our own.- Euripides

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
-- Samuel Johnson

This outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.
-- Rumi

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucius

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
-- Alan Alda

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
-- Irene C. Kassorla

You must live your life from beginning to end: No one else can do it for you.
-- Hopi saying

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-- John Mason

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!
-- Martin H. Fischer

Attitude Quotes to Generate Positive Thinking.

1. A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
-- Author Unknown

2. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
-- Hugh Downs

3. A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
-- Anonymous

4. A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

5. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.


6. Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.
-- Author Unknown

7. Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself.
-- Author Unknown

8. Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

9. Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
-- Kathleen Turner

10. Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
-- Katherine Mansfield

11. Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
-- Bill Meyer

12. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
-- Francesca Reigler

13. I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
-- Ancient Persian Saying

14. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou

15. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
-- Henry Ford

16. I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.
-- Author Unknown

17. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
-- Betty Smith

18. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
-- Ellen Glasgow

19. 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


20. Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
-- Helen MacInness

21. Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
-- Hubert Humphrey

22. Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
-- Susan Longacre

23. Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
-- Emory Austin

24. Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
-- Author Unknown

25. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James

26. The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

27. The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
-- Will Foley

28. There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
-- William J. Bennett

29. There is 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

30. Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
-- Maurice Setter

31. We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
-- Konrad Adenauer


32. We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
-- Author Unknown

33. We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... -- Dorothy Day

34. Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

35.Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
-- William James

36. Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
You always have a choice, even if it is only a choice of your attitude.
-- Lucy MacDonald

37. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Inspirational Quotes, Poems and Short Stories for Women

1. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
-- Oprah Winfrey


2. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-- Helen Keller

3. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
-- James Allen


4. Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
-- Danielle Fotopoulis


5. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Denis Waitley


6. Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
-- Christiane Northrup


7. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


8. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
-- Helen Keller


9. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet


10. If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life.
-- Daisaku Ikeda


11. If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau


12. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus


13. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-- Ralph Waldo


14. It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
-- Jenny Craig


15. Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
-- Daisaku Ikeda


16. Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
-- Elbert Hubbard


17. Taking action is how you GIVE your gift and live a life of true service to yourself and others. And that doesn't mean that your life's work has to be something that seems grand and noble. The real key to being of service and living your purpose is simply to do what you LOVE to do -- whatever it may be.
-- Rebecca Fine


18. The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt


19. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
-- James Allen


20. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


21. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
-- Amelia Earhart


22. Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
-- Napoleon Hill


23. To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


24. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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


25. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-- Steve Jobs