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My favorite quotes

Inpirational Quotes





"People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are."  - As A Man Thinketh


When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get, and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.


"To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract." – Jim Rohn


To get what you want, you change who you are, and you change who you are by simply changing the way you think and act.


“Act like the person you want to become. For as Goethe, the German philosopher, once wrote, ‘Before you can do something, you first must be something.’” – Bob Proctor


"Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it." - Byways of Blessedness


Circumstances are not negative or positive, circumstances are neutral. It is our thinking, our mental state, our perspective, that makes a circumstance positive or negative.


"If something you considered bad happens in your life, there has to be something good about it. If it was only a little bad, when you mentally work your way around to the other side, you will find it will only be a little good." 


"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent advantage or a greater benefit." – Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill


"Your behavior is based upon your feelings, which are based on your thoughts. So the thing to work on is not to change your behavior, but those things inside of your consciousness that we call thoughts. Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behavior will flow automatically. Believe it, and you will see it!" – You’ll See It When You Believe It by Wayne Dyer


"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs." – Dr. Maxwell Maltz



“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” – Franklin D. Roosevelt


“Fears are nothing more than states of mind” – Napoleon Hill


“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill


“If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.” – Calvin Coolidge


“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” –Seneca
“Cowardice … is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.” – Ernest Hemingway


“How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and have been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.”  – Jeremy Collier


“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare


“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.” – Grace Hansen


“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” – Robert Schuller


“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” – Dale Carnegie



“To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.” – Confucius


“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever is began in anger, ends in shame.” – Benjamin Franklin


“There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.” – St. Francis De Sales


“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased habit.” – Epictetus



“Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.” - Elbert Hubbard


If you would take, you must first give, This is the beginning of intelligence.” - Lao Tzu


“For it is in giving that we receive.” - St. Francis of Assisi


“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute … that gives meaning to our lives.” - Anthony Robbins


“For of those to whom much is given, much is required.” - John F. Kennedy


“The disease of jealousy is so malignant that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.” - Joseph Addison


“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” - Johann Kaspar Lavater


“My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.” - Rodney Dangerfield


“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” – Confucius


what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.” - Calvin Coolidge


“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” – Confucius


“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius


“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.” – Confucius


“Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.” - Confucius, BC 551 – 479


“If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.” - Will Rogers


“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” - Albert Einstein


“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein



"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.  This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles." - As A Man Thinketh


"Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others. Think about all you can praise God for and be glad about."


“The secret of life then is to control your mental states, for if you will do this the rest will follow. Man is not limited by his environment. He creates his environments by his beliefs and feelings.” – Emmet Fox



If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals. — Lou Holtz



Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. — Malcolm Forbes



There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offpring of thought – Think and Grow Rich

Success requires no explanations, failures permits no alibis. – Think and Grow Rich

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage – Think and Grow Rich

There is no other road to genius than through voluntary self-effort! – Think and Grow Rich

“You never can tell what a thought will do
In bringing you hate or love-
For thoughts are things, and their airy wings
Are swifter than carrier doves.
They follow the law of the universe-
Each thing creats its kind,
And they speed O’er the track to bring you back
Whatever went out from your mind.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Joy is the best measurement for success! :) 


“It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time, you have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.” – Secrets of The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

 “The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ’em!” – Stuart Wilde

“What you cannot see in this world is far more powerful than anything you can see.” – Secrets of The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker


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