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"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

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang". – Mary Kay Ash

"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared". – Mary Kay Ash

"Give yourself something to work toward – constantly". – Mary Kay Ash

"People fall forward to success". – Mary Kay Ash

"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch". – Mary Kay Ash

"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try". – Mary Kay Ash

"Dare to risk public criticism". – Mary Kay Ash

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway". – Mary Kay Ash

"For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour". – Mary Kay Ash

"There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise". – Mary Kay Ash

"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price". – Mary Kay Ash

"Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel". – Mary Kay Ash

"Do you know that within your power lies every step you ever dreamed of stepping and within your power lies every joy you ever dreamed of seeing? Within yourself lies everything you ever dreamed of being. Become everything that God wants you to be. It is within your reach. Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me". – Mary Kay Ash

"When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure". – Mary Kay Ash

"A strong beginning is a good thing only when coupled with a strong finish". – Mary Kay Ash

"Think about it, no one can win a race in which he had given up. You can’t win a battle for which you have surrendered". – Mary Kay Ash

"I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say I’ve always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed". – Mary Kay Ash

"We didn’t set the world on fire from the first day. Disappointments, setbacks and work created the company as it is today". – Mary Kay Ash

"You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping stones and climb to new heights". – Mary Kay Ash

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm". – Mary Kay Ash

"If you act enthusiastic, you will become enthusiastic. A mediocre mind that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one". – Mary Kay Ash

"Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day". – Mary Kay Ash

"An average person with average talents and average ambition can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society; if that person has clear focused goals". – Mary Kay Ash

"God didn’t have time to create a nobody, just a somebody. I believe that each of us has God given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. Each person is unique and special". – Mary Kay Ash

"The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace ‘if I can’ or ‘I hope’ or ‘maybe’ with ‘I can,’ ‘i will’ and ‘I must”". – Mary Kay Ash

"Forcing myself to think positively did wonders for my spirit. I was able to overcome the discontent inside me, and my old enthusiasm slowly returned". – Mary Kay Ash

"Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon". – Mary Kay Ash

"You can do anything in this world that you want to do, if you want to do it badly enough and you are willing to pay the price. Often during my childhood, I heard those words from my mother, always urging me on to greater heights! They became so firmly implanted in my mind that they became the theme of my childhood and of my life". – Mary Kay Ash

"Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life. That is the law of the harvest, the law of the ten-fold return. If you give nothing, even if it is multiplied, you receive nothing". – Mary Kay Ash

"Unlike many people who start a new business, money was not my prime motivation – not that I was so well off that it wasn’t a consideration; in fact, I had put my lifetime savings on the line". – Mary Kay Ash

"I believe that most successful people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination". – Mary Kay Ash

"Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution". – Mary Kay Ash

"People change and even products change. But over the course of time it’s the strength of a company’s philosophy that will determine whether or not it endures". – Mary Kay Ash

"The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them". – Mary Kay Ash

"Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me". – Mary Kay Ash

"Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind". – Mary Kay Ash

"There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group". – Mary Kay Ash

"Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it’s too late". – Mary Kay Ash

"Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can". – Mary Kay Ash

"Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success". – Mary Kay Ash

"In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia". – Mary Kay Ash

"Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works". – Mary Kay Ash

"Don’t let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible". – Mary Kay Ash

"You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule". – Mary Kay Ash

"Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them… Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it". – Mary Kay Ash

"The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself". – Mary Kay Ash

"People will support that which they help to create". – Mary Kay Ash

"There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through". – Mary Kay Ash

"Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead". – Mary Kay Ash

"What the world thinks of me is none of my business". – Mary Kay Ash

"Make every day count. Make every hour count. Make every minute count. And don’t stop until you have exercised your full potential, realizing your impossible dream and fulfilling your total destiny to become the person that you, and only you , are capable of being". – Mary Kay Ash

"Believe in yourself and know that you can do anything in this world that you want to do if you want to do it badly enough and you are willing to travel the road. Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass". – Mary Kay Ash

"The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return – 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you". – Mary Kay Ash

"I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it’s an attitude that can’t be faked. You’ve got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important". – Mary Kay Ash

"It is important for you to have a goal. You simply can’t get there if you don’t know where you are going. Begin to build in your mind a dream. The write it down and make your goal realistic. Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it". – Mary Kay Ash

"I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water". – Mary Kay Ash

"Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be". – Mary Kay Ash

"I’ve never yet met a person who didn’t want to be appreciated…" – Mary Kay Ash

"You can eat an elephant one bit at a time". – Mary Kay Ash

"My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to". – Mary Kay Ash

"If you have an idea and I have an idea – then we EACH have JUST ONE idea…but if you share your idea with me and I do the same…we EACH have TWO ideas!" – Mary Kay Ash

"One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us". – Mary Kay Ash

"Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment". – Mary Kay Ash

"You can go as far as your mind lets you". – Mary Kay Ash

"There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant". – Mary Kay Ash

"Left unattended, problems only intensify". – Mary Kay Ash

"You never really fail until you stop wanting". – Mary Kay Ash

"In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don’t like to do". – Mary Kay Ash

"What’s interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted". – Mary Kay Ash

"Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right". – Mary Kay Ash

"Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way". – Mary Kay Ash

"Think in terms of what’s good for the other person and success will seek you out". – Mary Kay Ash

"A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn’t have this spirit, chances are you won’t find it anywhere else in the organization". – Mary Kay Ash

"Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow". – Mary Kay Ash

"One intense hour is worth a dreamy day". – Mary Kay Ash

"Fear is faith that it won’t work". – Mary Kay Ash

"Real leaders aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty". – Mary Kay Ash

"Each of us wants to feel good about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the same way". – Mary Kay Ash

"Be the kind of person who can always be counted on to do what you say you’ll do". – Mary Kay Ash

"Help other people get what they want – and you’ll get what you want". – Mary Kay Ash

"The most important justification for being in business is service to others. Every new business must be built upon the premise, since wanting to make money or desiring to ‘dabble’ in a favorite pastime are not enough to sustain such a venture. The business must fulfill a need". – Mary Kay Ash

"In business everything is subject to change – people, products, buildings, machinery, everything – except principles. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, in matters of principle, stand like a rock; in other matters, swim with the current. So, while I strongly advocate flexibility, when it comes to principles we must stand firm". – Mary Kay Ash

"I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy". – Mary Kay Ash

"Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you". – Mary Kay Ash

"Nothing happens until somebody sells something!" – Mary Kay Ash

"To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love". – Mary Kay Ash

"Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better". – Mary Kay Ash

"Recognition is the most powerful of all motivating techniques". – Mary Kay Ash

"When you listen, the benefit is twofold: You receive the necessary information, and you make the other person feel important". – Mary Kay Ash

"True leaders establish success patterns that make everyone think success". – Mary Kay Ash

"People often resist change when they don’t participate in the decision-making process. Some of the best leaders ‘plant the seed’ that permits others to propose the idea and take credit for it!" – Mary Kay Ash

"Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles". – Mary Kay Ash

"We are meant to use and increase whatever God has given us. And when we do, we shall be given more". – Mary Kay Ash

"You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward". – Mary Kay Ash

"Every person should have a lifetime self-improvement program". – Mary Kay Ash

"Nobody wins ‘em all. If you come down on them too hard for losing, they’ll stop sticking their necks out". – Mary Kay Ash

"The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce". – Mary Kay Ash

"You must develop the ability to know the difference between a real problem and an imaginary one". – Mary Kay Ash

"I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief". – Mary Kay Ash

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” Mary Kay Ash

“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.” Mary Kay Ash

“For every failure there’s an alternative course of action. you just have to find it.” Mary Kay Ash

“Throw out the words, if I can, I hope, and maybe, and replace them with I can, I will, I must.” Mary Kay Ash

“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.” Mary Kay Ash

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.” Mary Kay Ash

“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” Mary Kay Ash

“We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal.” Mary Kay Ash

“Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.” Mary Kay Ash

“God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.” Mary Kay Ash

“Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise.” Mary Kay Ash

“Success, in many cases, is failure turned inside out.” Mary Kay Ash

“The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything.” Mary Kay Ash

115. “Don’t let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible.” Mary Kay Ash

“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.” Mary Kay Ash

"You cannot keep determined people from success.” Mary Kay Ash

“We treat our people like royalty. If you honour and serve the people who work for you, they will honour and serve you.” Mary Kay Ash

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.” Mary Kay Ash

“Fake it till you make it.” Mary Kay Ash

“People fall forward to success.” Mary Kay Ash

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” Mary Kay Ash

“Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.” Mary Kay Ash

"The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” Mary Kay Ash

“Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile.” Mary Kay Ash

"Give yourself something to work toward constantly.” Mary Kay Ash

"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.” Mary Kay Ash

"You can do anything in this world that you want to do, if you want to do it badly enough.” Mary Kay Ash

“God first, then family, then career.” Mary Kay Ash

"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

“Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it’s too late.” Mary Kay Ash

“The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.” Mary Kay Ash

“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” Mary Kay Ash

“Within yourself lies everything you’ve ever dreamed of being.” Mary Kay Ash

“Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfilment, whatever it may be.” Mary Kay Ash

"People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them". – Mary Kay Ash

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income". –Kevin Kruse

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve". –Napoleon Hill

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value". –Albert Einstein

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference".  –Robert Frost

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse". –Florence Nightingale

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take". –Wayne Gretzky

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed". –Michael Jordan

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity". –Amelia Earhart

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run". –Babe Ruth

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement". –W. Clement Stone

"Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being". –Kevin Kruse

"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans". –John Lennon

"We become what we think about". –Earl Nightingale

"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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover". –Mark Twain

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it". –Charles Swindoll

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any". –Alice Walker

"The mind is everything. What you think you become".  –Buddha

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now". –Chinese Proverb

"An unexamined life is not worth living". –Socrates

"Eighty percent of success is showing up". –Woody Allen

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life". –Steve Jobs

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is". –Vince Lombardi

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions". –Stephen Covey

"Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". –Pablo Picasso

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore". –Christopher Columbus

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". –Maya Angelou

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you". –Jim Rohn

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right". –Henry Ford

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why". –Mark Twain

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it". –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The best revenge is massive success". –Frank Sinatra

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily". –Zig Ziglar

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage". –Anais Nin

"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced". –Vincent Van Gogh

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing". –Aristotle

"Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you". –Jesus

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be". –Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined". –Henry David Thoreau

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me". –Erma Bombeck

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him".  –Booker T. Washington

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart". – Ancient Indian Proverb

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there". –Theodore Roosevelt

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear". –George Addair

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light". –Plato

"Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress". –Maimonides

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can". –Arthur Ashe

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life". –John Lennon

"Fall seven times and stand up eight". –Japanese Proverb

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us". –Helen Keller

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see". –Confucius

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world". –Anne Frank

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be". –Lao Tzu

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away". –Maya Angelou

"Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions". –Dalai Lama

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on". –Sheryl Sandberg

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end". –Aristotle

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars". –Latin Proverb

"You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground". –Unknown

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained". –Marie Curie

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears". –Les Brown

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful". –Joshua J. Marine

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else". –Booker T. Washington

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do". –Leonardo da Vinci

"Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless". –Jamie Paolinetti

"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame". –Erica Jong

"What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do". –Bob Dylan

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong". –Benjamin Franklin

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure". –Bill Cosby

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new". – Albert Einstein

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it". –Chinese Proverb

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile". –Roger Staubach

"It is never too late to be what you might have been". –George Eliot

"You become what you believe". –Oprah Winfrey

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom". –Vincent van Gogh

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty". –Unknown

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings".  –Ann Landers

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money". –Abigail Van Buren

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs". –Farrah Gray

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at". –Jesse Owens

"Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance". –Sir Claus Moser

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear". –Rosa Parks

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop". –Confucius

"If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough". –Oprah Winfrey

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck". –Dalai Lama

"You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have". –Maya Angelou

"Dream big and dare to fail". –Norman Vaughan

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter". –Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have". –Teddy Roosevelt

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten". –Tony Robbins

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning". –Gloria Steinem

"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

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try". –Beverly Sills

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent". –Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be". –Grandma Moses

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me". –Ayn Rand

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it". –Henry Ford

"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years". –Abraham Lincoln

"Change your thoughts and you change your world". –Norman Vincent Peale

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing". –Benjamin Franklin

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it". –Zig Ziglar

Tweet or Facebook message a genuine compliment to three people right now.

Bring doughnuts (or a healthy treat, like cut-up fruit) to work.

While you're out, compliment a parent on how well-behaved their child is.

Don't write the angry internet comment you're thinking of writing.

When everyone around you is gossiping about someone, be the one to butt in with something nice.

Cook a meal or do a load of laundry for a friend who just had a baby or is going through a difficult time.

If you walk by a car with an expired parking meter, put a quarter in it.

Put your phone away.

Hang out with the person who just moved to town.

Offer a homeless person your leftovers bag from the restaurant.

Each time you get a new piece of clothing, donate an old one.

Don't interrupt when someone else is speaking. (Surprisingly few people master this.)

Email or write an old teacher who made a difference in your life.

Compliment someone to their boss.

Leave a nice server the biggest tip you can afford.

Smile at someone on the street, just because.

Let someone into your lane. They're probably in a rush just like you.

Forgive someone, and never bring up the issue again.

Talk to the shy person who's sitting by themselves at a party.

Leave your New York Times or Us Weekly behind for someone else to read at the coffeeshop, the doctor's office, or on a plane.

Cut someone some slack.

Help a mother with her baby stroller.

Become a big brother or big sister.

Let the person behind you at the supermarket checkout with one or two items go ahead of you.

Write someone a letter. Like a real letter, on paper. And mail it!

Give away stuff for free on Craigslist.

Make a "breakup playlist" on Spotify for your friend who's going through heartbreak.

Give someone a book you think they'd like.

Be the person who puts a tip in the tip jar at the coffeeshop. (Fewer people tip than you'd think!)

30. Bring in fun office supplies to liven up the workday for everyone.

When you go somewhere to get or do something, ask the people around you if you can pick up anything they need.

Give someone a hug.

If you spill creamer or sugar on the counter at Starbucks, wipe it up.

Call your grandparents. Call them!

Donate your old eyeglasses so someone else can use them.

When you're throwing something away on the street, pick up any litter around you and put that in the trash too.

Write something nice on that person's updates who posts on Facebook constantly. They're probably lonely.

Sincerely compliment your boss, who probably doesn't often get feedback from her reports.

Put sticky notes with positive slogans on the mirrors in restrooms.

Let them have the parking space.

Relay an overheard compliment.

Volunteer to read to kids at an after-school program.

Bring your partner coffee in bed tomorrow.

Try to make sure every person in a group conversation feels included.

Stop to talk to a homeless person.

Answer that email you've been avoiding.

Send anonymous flowers to the receptionist at work.

Pay the toll for the person behind you.

Donate or recycle your old laptop and electronics.

Write a nice comment on your friend's blog.

Play board games with senior citizens at a nursing home. Sixty percent of them will never have a visitor during their stay.

Give someone a tissue who's crying in the public, and offer to talk about it, but only if they want to.

Listen intently.

Babysit for a single mom for free.

Adopt a rescue pet.

Compliment someone in front of others.

Hold the elevator.

IM or email that person you're afraid to talk to because you don't want to "bother them." They're probably thinking the same thing about others!

Remind yourself that everyone is fighting their own struggles.

Leave some extra quarters in the laundry room.

Write your partner a list of things you love about them.

Put together a small herb garden for someone.

Empathize.

Say thank you to a janitor.

Talk to someone at work whom you have't talked to before.

Frame your friend's favorite lyric or quote and give it to them with a nice note.

Send dessert to another table.

Text someone just to say good morning or good night.

Help your elderly neighbor take out the trash or mow their lawn.

Give up your seat to someone (anyone!) on the bus or subway.

Tell your siblings how much you appreciate them.

Bring a security guard a hot cup of coffee.

Plant a tree.

Purchase some extra dog or cat food and drop it off at an animal shelter.

If you're a good photographer, take photos of your friends and make them into a digital album.

Smile when you feel like scowling.

Wash someone's car.

Dog or catsit for free.

Keep an extra umbrella at work and let someone borrow it on their way home if there's a sudden downpour.

Make two lunches and give one away.

Reduce air pollution by carpooling.

Say yes at the store when the cashier asks if you want to donate $1 to whichever cause.

Be encouraging!

Help someone struggling with heavy bags.

Take all your change to Coinstar and donate your collection to charity.

Give your friend a hug, touch their arm, or pat them on the back. So many of us are starved for human touch!

Buy lemonade from a kid's lemonade stand.

Give your partner the benefit of the doubt.

Be kind to the customer service rep on the phone. It's not their fault.

Do the dishes even if it's your roommate's turn.

Give someone special something special.

Give someone the rest of your pack of gum.

Be patient.

Clean someone's windshield.

Every night before you go to bed, think of three things you're grateful for.

Make plans with that person you've been putting off seeing.

Call your mom.

Offer to return a shopping cart to the store for someone loading groceries in their car.

Have a clean-up party on the beach or at a park.

When you hear that negative, discouraging voice in your head, remember to leave yourself alone you deserve kindness too!

Do the dishes even if it's your roommate's turn.

Give someone special something special.

Give someone the rest of your pack of gum.

In a world of 1's and 0's, Be a 2 and drop that deuce!

Be patient.

Forgiveness is something you can give, but can never be forced or bought.

Tell someone you care, it will mean a lot!

Smile at the first person you see today for no reason and then keep walking.

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” -Mahatma Ghandi

“When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.” -Nelson Mandela

“Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.” -Maya Angelou

“It can be hard to forgive and let go but it’s important to remember that harboring the resentment and holding a grudge can hurt you even more. The word ‘forgive’ really means to give something up for yourself, not for them.” -Jack Canfield

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.


“When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. [And] we’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.” -Joel Osteen


“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” -Marianne Williamson

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” -Deepak Chopra

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”― Marilyn Monroe

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”― Mae West

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”― Harvey Fierstein

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”― M. Scott Peck

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”― Nic Sheff

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”― Mark Twain

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”― Brigham Young

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”― Elizabeth Taylor

“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”― Jim Morrison

“I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.”― Daniel Radcliffe

“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...”― Evanescence

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness

“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”― Diane Von Furstenberg

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.”― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”― Iyanla Vanzant

“Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.”― Corita Kent

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”― Norman Vincent Peale

“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others”― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

"Can we each do one random act of kindness today?"

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”!" —Audrey Hepburn

"The greatest effort is not concerned with results". —Atisha

"Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through". —Jarod Kintz

"In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it". —Seth Godin

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability". —Patrick Lencioni

"Leadership is an action, not a position". —Donald McGannon

"Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way". —Ronald Reagan

"I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody". —Herbert Bayard Swope

"Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are". —Thomas John Carlisle

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason". —J.P. Morgan

"If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything". —Tom Rath

"Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar". —Orrin Woodward

"Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter". —Jaachynma N.E. Agu

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision". —Peter F. Drucker

"When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow". —Jerry Porras

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision". —John Maxwell

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit". —John Maxwell

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples". —Mother Teresa

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right". —Henry Ford

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary". —Jim Rohn

"Take up one 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

"If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do". —Anonymous

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm". —Winston Churchill

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve". —Napoleon Hill

"Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them". —Vaibhav Shah

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value". —Albert Einstein

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it". —Henry David Thoreau

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people". —Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions". —Stephen Covey

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it". —Henry Ford

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent". —Eleanor Roosevelt

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success". —Bruce Feirstein

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great". —John D. Rockefeller

"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough". —Albert Einstein

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed". —Ray Goforth

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out". —Robert Collier

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any". —Alice Walker

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity". —Amelia Earhart

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light". —Aristotle Onassis

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant". —Robert Louis Stevenson

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear". —Mark Twain

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone". —Pablo Picasso

"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

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck". —Dalai Lama

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus". —Bruce Lee

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life". —Steve Jobs

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better". —Jim Rohn

"The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors". —Napoleon Hill

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up". —Thomas A. Edison

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" —Robert Schuller

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing". —Abraham Lincoln

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential". —John Maxwell

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it". —Margaret Thatcher

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". —Maya Angelou

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started". —David Allen

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it". —Greg Anderson

"Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?" —Bill Walton

"Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got". —Sue Knight

"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them". —Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it". —J. Petit Senn

"You never regret being kind". —Nicole Shepherd

"To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek". —Alan Cohen

"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian". —Shari R. Barr

"View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn’t you do?" —Victor Frankl

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time… serenity, that nothing is". —Thomas Szasz

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. —Eleanor Roosevelt

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires". —William Arthur Ward

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change". —Charles Darwin

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others". —Robert Louis Stevenson

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things". —Ronald Reagan

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination". —Jimmy Dean

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear". —Rosa Parks

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan". —John F. Kennedy

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things". —Peter F. Drucker

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing". —Albert Schweitzer

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them". —John C. Maxwell

"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones". —Brandon Sanderson

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else". —Booker T. Washington

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out". —Steve Jobs

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new". —Albert Einstein

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be". —Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone". —Ronald Reagan

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear". —George Addair

"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off". —Colin Powell

"Change your thoughts and you change your world". —Norman Vincent Peale

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world". —Anne Frank

L"ife is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it". —Charles Swindoll

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself". —Robert E. Lee

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence". —Vince Lombardi

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for". —Nancy D. Solomon

"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are". —Max De Pree

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there". —Theodore Roosevelt

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears". —Les Brown

"If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing". —Brad Szollose

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality". —Plutarch

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week". —George Patton

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it". —William Arthur Ward

"Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone". —Gertrude Stein

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you". —John E. Southard

"Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it". —Tom Hopkins

"You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do". —Eleanor Roosevelt

"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people". —Andre Dubus

"Do or do not. There is no try". —Yoda

"Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy". —Jimmy Spithill

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it". —Margaret Thatcher

"The best revenge is massive success". —Frank Sinatra

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me". —Ayn Rand

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do". —Steve Jobs

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see". —Henry David Thoreau

"Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered-just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better". —Barrie Davenport

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near". Sun tzu, The Art of War

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity". Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

"If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy". Sun Tzu

"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:  1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.  2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.  3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.  4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.  5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust". Sun Tzu

"Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized". Sun Tzu

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard". Sun Tzu

"There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen". Sun Tzu

"There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"know yourself and you will win all battles'. Sun Tzu

"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by". Sun Tzu

"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"who wishes to fight must first count the cost'. Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise". Sun Tzu

"Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate". Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across". Sun Tzu

“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” – Anne Frank

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Robert Anthony

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.” – J.D. Salinger

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.” – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

“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

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” – Barbara DeAngelis

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W.P. Kinsella

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.” – Tom Brady

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” – St. Augustine

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Author unknown, yet commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin.

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin Roosevelt

“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.” – Author Unknown

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” – Sigmund Freud

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” – George Bernard Shaw

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” – Bertrand Russell

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

“When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” – George Bernard Shaw

“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” – Chinese Proverb

“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.” – John Stuart Mill

“When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” – Sophocles

“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.” – Johnny Carson

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” – Carl Jung

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”– Dale Carnegie

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn

“If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim










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