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
February 9, 2014
February 9, 2014 By
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
January 1, 2104
January 1, 2014 By
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Rainer Maria Rilke
2013 Quotes
January 1, 2013 By
December 5, 2013
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
November 16, 2013
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
November 5, 2013
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi
September 10, 2013
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci
August 8, 2013
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs
July 23, 2013
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell
June 18, 2013
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
June 6. 2013
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
May 27, 2013
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou
May 15, 2013
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
April 21, 2013
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald
April 10, 2013
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.”
Aminu Kano
March 30, 2013
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Unknown
March 22, 2013
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
March 7, 2013
Take up the idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
February 25, 2013
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to bring you joy.
Unknown
February 9, 2013
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
Margaret Thatcher
January 26, 2013
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
January 6, 2013
You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love–who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream.
Oprah Winfrey
2012 Quotes
January 1, 2012 By
December 12, 2012
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
November 24, 2012
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
November 8, 2012
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
November 3, 2012
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
October 15, 2012
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 17, 2012
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
August 30, 2012
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.
Anonymous
August 15, 2012
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
Chinese Proverb
July 30, 2012
Everyday we get another chance to get it right.
Jacki Kelly
July 18, 2012
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
July 9, 2012
A trip is what you take when you can’t take anymore of what you’ve been taking.
Adeline Ainsworth
July 3, 2012
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
June 10, 2012
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
June 1, 2012
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzche
May 20, 2012
A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them-they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship
Rainer Maria Rilke
May 8, 2012
Don’t wait on others to give you what you think you deserve. Give it to yourself.
Jacki Kelly
May 1, 2012
A delay is not a denial.
Rev. James Cleveland
April 14, 2012
We never now how high we are, till we are asked to rise, and then if we are true to plan our statures touch the skies–
Emily Dickinson
April 4, 2012
Find your happiness today, it’s the only thing worth looking for.
Jacki Kelly
March 26, 2012
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
March 7, 2012
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
February 17, 2012
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Henry David Thoreau
February 4, 2012
There is a soul force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
Mahatma Gandhi
January 14, 2012
If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must full every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover. And a being within ourselves to bring to life.
Author Unknown
2011 Quotes
January 1, 2011 By
December 28, 2011
Every step of the journey is the journey.
Zen Saying
December 14, 2011
For each of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover. And a being within ourselves to bring to life.
Author Unknown
December 1, 2011
When you’ve done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it.
Ralph Marston
November 14, 2011
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
October 31, 2011
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 14, 2011
Only let a man say that he will do something and the whole mechanism goes to work to stop him
John Steinbeck
October 2, 2011
…while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help to make a good writer out of a merely competent one.
Stephen King
September 21, 2011
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining…researching…talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
E. L. Doctorow
September 11, 2011
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.
Anne Lamott
September 2, 2011
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
August 28, 2011
“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it, blame yourself, admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
August 17, 2011
“You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou