“There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare
“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.” – Milton
“Great men are those who see that thoughts rule the world” – Emerson
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – Seneca
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again” – Buddha
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without” – Buddha “We wish to make our lives simple, certain and smooth-and for that reason problems are tabu. We choose to have certainties and no doubts-results and no experiments-without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt, and results through experiment.” – Jung
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be” – Socrates
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things” – Peter Drucker
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do” – Andrew Carnegie
“Man sacrifices his health for money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” – Dalai Lama
“Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom” – Plato
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things” – Isaac Newton
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism” – Carl Jung
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong” – Robin Williams
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool” – Richard P. Feynman
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither” – C. S. Lewis
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego'” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect” – Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer” – Bruce Lee
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls” – Joseph Campbell
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Freedom – to walk free and own no superior” – Walt Whitman
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans” – Woody Allen
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” – Yogi Berra
“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like” – Napoleon Hill
“Whatever you do, do well, for when you go to the grave there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom” – Ecclesiastes 9:1
“You can’t build your reputation on what you’re going to do” – Henry Ford
“Action should not be confused with haste” – Lee Iacoca
“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it” – Howard W. Newton
“The godly give good advice to their friends, the wicked lead them astray” – Proverbs 12:26
“It is pleasant to see dreams come true, but fools will not turn from evil to attain them” – Proverbs 13:19
“Most people are willing to adapt not because they see the light but because they feel the heat” – L. Thomas Holdcroft
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions” – James R. Lowell
“The bamboo which bends is stronger than the oak that resists” – Japanese proverb
“Adversity causes some men to break and others to break records” – John Dobbert
“Happiness or joy is the emotional state that proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Suffering is the emotional state that proceeds from a negation or destruction of one’s values.” – Nathaniel Brandon
“Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out” – James B. Conant
“A man of courage is also full of faith” – Cicero
“Act brave. The world steps aside for the man who knows where he’s going” – D.S Jordan
“It’s easy to be brave from a safe distance” – Aesop
“A prudent one foresees the danger ahead and takes precaution. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences” – Proverbs 27:12
“Part of the problem today is that we have a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems.” – Henry Thoreau
“We make our plans, but the lord determines our steps” – Proverbs 16:9
“You capacity to say “no” determines your capacity to say “yes” to greater things” – E. Stanley Jones
“We make our decisions and then our decisions turn around and make us” – R.W Boreham
“We forge the chains we wear in life” – Charles Dickens
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.” – Franz Kafka
“No choice is also a choice” – Jewish Proverb
“Once the facts are clear, the decision jumps at you” – Peter F. Drucker
“Nothing ranks a man so quickly as his skill in selecting things that are really worthwhile. Every day brings the necessity of keen discrimination. Not always is it a choice between good and bad, but between good and the best.” – A.P Gouthey
“The man who has not learned to say No will be a weak if not a wretched man as long as he lives.” – A. Maclaren
“A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry yes” – Baltasar Gracian
“A guilty conscience is the mother of invention” – Carolyn Wells
“The collapse of self-esteem is not reached in a day, a week, or a month: it is the cumulative result of a long succession of defaults, evasions, and irrationalities – a long succession of failures to use one’s mind properly” – Nathaniel Branden
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” – Lewis Carroll
“By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work 12 hours a day” – Robert Frost
“Time isn’t a commodity, something you pass around like a cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they’re really asking for a chunk of your life.” – Antoinette Bosco
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough” – Randy Pausch
“A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” – Latin Proverb
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach” – Benjamin Mays
“In a gold rush, don’t dig for gold, sell shovels!” – Unknown
“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
“Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity.” Marshall McLuhan
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
“Not Dead, Can’t Quit.” – Navy SEAL, Richard Machowicz
“We are always getting to live, but never living” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most effective form of socialization is achieved when people identify so thoroughly with the social order that they no longer can imagine themselves breaking any of its rules” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Men are not afraid of external things, but of how they view them” – Epictetus
“Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.” – Bertrand Russell
“I would rather gain one true cause than rule the kingdom of Persia” – Democritus
“Happiness does not reside in wealth and money, it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.” – Democritus
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness” -Thomas Carlyle.
“The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely” – C.K. Brightbill
“Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god” – Francis Bacon
“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.” – Blake
“I also feared boredom and mediocrity much more than I feared failure. For me, great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor.” – Ray Dalio
“Life can only be understood backward, it must be lived forward” – Kierkegaard
“The first half of our lives are ruined by parents, and second half by our children” – Clarence Darrow
“A life of ease is a difficult pursuit” – William Cowper
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo Da Vinci They may trip seven times but each time they will rise again. But one calamity is enough to lay the wicked low. – Proverbs 24:16 Good planning and hard work leads to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. – Proverbs 21:5 Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They only lack determination. – Charles Swindoll “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung #quote Thoreau: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” “The more responsibility you voluntarily take on, the more deep meaning and glory you get. Young people are starving to hear that. You’re way more than you think. Stand up, burst out of your bonds, do something difficult and heroic..That’s a necessary message.” Jordan Peterson “Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.” – Van Goethe “Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became ‘geniuses’ (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all pos¬sessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to con¬struct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole” – Nietzsche “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.” — Bruce Lee Reason is a wise man’s guide; example, the fool’s – Welsh Proverb #quote Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions – Proverbs 18:2 It is human to stand with the crowd, it is divine to stand alone. It is manlike to follow the people, to drift with the tide. it is godlike to follow a principle, to stem the tide.- John Maxwell It is natural to compromise conscience and follow the social and religious fashion, for the sake of gain or pleasure; it is divine to sacrifice both on the altar of truth and duty.- John Maxwell Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for. – Theodore Epp A wise youth works hard all summer; a youth who sleeps away the hour of opportunity brings shame – Proverbs 10:5 Make hay while the sun shines – English Proverb If you are patient in one amount of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow – Chinese Proverb Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience – Ralph Waldo Emerson A diamond is a chunk of coal that stuck to its job – Leonardo Da Vinci The fears of the wicked will come true, so will the hopes of the godly – Proverbs 10:24 Pessimist: one who, when he has a choice between two evils, cho