If you want to experience prosperity at a miraculous level, you must leave behind your old ways of thinking and develop a new way of imagining what is possible for you to experience in your life.
The secret of abundance is to stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and that you do have.
There’s no lack of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There’s only a lack of resolve to make it happen.
You’re the creator of your thoughts, which means that in some metaphysical way, you’re the creator of your life.
With everything that has happened to you, you can feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Upon Awakening, let the words “Thank You” flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.
We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is divine love and that is infinite.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
Don’t spend your precious time asking “Why isn’t the world a better place?” It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is “How can I make it better?” To that, there is an answer.
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
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.
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn’t be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ That depends, Sir,’ said Disraeli, ‘whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
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.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Always try to represent yourself as happy. Initially, it becomes your look, gradually it becomes your habit and finally it becomes your personality.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world tolerance & universal acceptance. we believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true.
When you are doing any work.. do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.
We are what our thoughts have made us. So take care about what you think. Words are secondary, thoughts live and travel far.
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Each work has to pass through these stages – ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
You have to come up in the world before it’s worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
When the joy of the job’s gone, when it’s no fun trying anymore, quit before you’re fired.
Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you’re working at.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they’re not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don’t have.
An inadequate chief executive officer’s time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
When you don’t understand, it’s sometimes easier to look like you do.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won’t be room for us.
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
Don’t let others be your judge and jury with their pity and negative thoughts or feeling. Know that you are here for a reason. Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
If you don’t like who you are and where you are, don’t worry about it because you’re not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.
Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others.
Outside of your relationship with God, the most important relationship you can have is with yourself. I don’t mean that we are to spend all our time focused on me, me, me to the exclusion of others. Instead, I mean that we must be healthy internally, emotionally and spiritually – in order to create healthy relationships with others.
If you have the character to hang in there when it’s tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.
If you do not think you deserve success, then you will do things that will keep you from getting success.
You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists – you are patriots.
I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. ‘Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It’s never easy when there’s so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There’s a mission just for you and me.
African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can’t be counted upon to provide it.
The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the resources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.
Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather’s, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It’s just not manly. I don’t do anything in life because I love doing it. It’s because I want to be good at it.
A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I’m not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
I directed an episode of ‘Party of Five’ toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
I didn’t learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
