Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind” ~ Bernard M. Baruch
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them” ~ Roy T. Bennett
Do not promise when you’re happy, do not reply when you’re angry, and do not decide when you’re sad. Just be reliable instead.”
~ Unknown
Well done is better than well said.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
~ Warren Buffett
You cannot share your life with a dog or a cat and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
Jane Goodall
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you” ~ John Updike
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity ~ Benjamin Franklin
You will give anything for one more second when your last comes. Do not waste them now. Do not let anger, sorrow, or distractions steal what you will one day beg to have back ~ Marcus Aurelius
You become what you give your attention to ~ Epicticus
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven ~ Jack Kerouac
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations” ~ Zig Ziglar
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are” ~ Augustine of Hippo
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself ~ Henry James
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls” ~ Jack Kerouac
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” ~ Mary Harrison McKee
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.”
~M.H. McKee
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do” ~ Carl Jung
Your words have power. Speak words that are kind, loving, positive, uplifting, and life-changing.”
~Steve Maraboli
At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us” ~ Albert Schweitzer
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
~ L.R. Knost
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows” ~ Michael Landon
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it” ~ Aristotle
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”
~Alan K. Simpson
The world cares very little about what a man knows. It is what a man is able to do that counts, and the man who can control himself is the man who will succeed ~ Booker T. Washington
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Spark
Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn–and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” –Dale Carnegie
If we are bold enough to point out problems, we must be brave enough to try to solve them.” –Robert Alan Silverstein
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.” –Margaret Chase Smith
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” –Plato
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” –attributed to Aristotle
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” –Norman Vincent Peale
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.” —Abraham Lincoln
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.” —Calvin Coolidge
everything you criticise in others tells you something about you
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion ~ Paulo Coelho
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
― Paulo Coelho
I’ve seen knights in armor panic at the first hint of battle. And I’ve seen the lowliest, unarmed squire pull a spear from his own body, to defend a dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright. It’s defined by one’s actions.
I’m more comfortable alone. But I do recognize that I take it too far sometimes and so I try to force myself to keep up with being sociable. I just am a bit of a lone ranger; I always have been. But I don’t believe that necessarily has to translate to being lonely. You can be lonely in a crowd of a thousand people. I can be in a hotel room on my own and not feel lonely. It all comes down to how comfortable you are with who you are in the silence ~ Gillian Anderson
You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life.” — Patch Adams
Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.” — Cecelia Ahern
Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin S. Sharma
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: ‘I did not have time.’” — Franklin Field
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ― Earl Nightingale
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” — Eckhart Tolle
ou build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” — Johnny Cash
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Marcus Aurelius
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius
May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose” ~ AristotleNever follow a leader who is more in love with power than people
The opinion of a thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject ~ Marcus Aurelius
if you get on the wrong train, get off at the first station. The longer you wait to get off the more expensive the mistake becomes ~ Japanese saying
All of your life you will be given a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love ~ Johnny cash
Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!”
― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” — Viktor Frankl
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” — Marcus Aurelius
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” — Seneca
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or — Epictetus
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength” is attributed to Marcus Aurelius
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do ~ Edward Everett Hale
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence” ~ Charles Bukowski
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”
~ Michel de Montaigne
Make each day your masterpiece ~ John Wooden
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world ~ Robin Hobb
Every single time you help somebody stand up, you are helping humanity rise ~ Steve Maraboli
The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either” ~ Charles Bukowski
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress ~ Viggo Mortensen
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others ~ Simon Sinek
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity ~ Benjamin Franklin
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change ~ Frida Kahlo
Give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The most important thing in life is to stop saying, ‘I wish’ and start saying, ‘I will’ ~ Charles Dickens
Imagine what our neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person ~ Fred Rogers
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves ~ Amelia Earhart
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart ~ Anne Frank
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things ~ Henry Ward Beecher
My father could have been a great comedian but he didn’t believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that: You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love ~ Jim Carrey
Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day… make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular.”
― Robin williams
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference ~ Zig Ziglar
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it ~ Groucho Marx
If you have a heartbeat, there’s still time for your dreams ~ Sean Stephenson
People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned ~ Buddha
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
Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it ~ Steven Conrad
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ~ Aristotle
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away ~ Stephen Hawking
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years ~ Mark Twain
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude ~ Oprah Winfrey
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats ~ Voltaire
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives ~ Henry David Thoreau
Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness ~ David Steindl-Rast
Be kind with your actions. The words will take care of themselves ~ Chris Boyle
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail ~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
When I was 11, I joined a football team. About halfway through the season, I decided that I wanted to quit. When I told my dad, he said, ‘That’s fine. You can quit…but not in the middle of the season. If you want to quit, you have to wait until the end.’ He explained that I had made a commitment—not only to the coaches but also to the other kids. That was a pivotal lesson for me. There are things in life that get you down, and life itself often gets tough. But if you can ride it out, it will always get better. Also, when I took a step back and listened to what my dad was saying, I realized that I really did like football. I was just distracted by something else. That’s another thing—life is full of distractions. You’ve got to be able to focus on what you want the most. ~ Joe Montana
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism ~ Erma Bombeck
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms, you will be able to use them better when you are older ~ Seneca
I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes ~ Marilyn Monroe
Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be ~ Shonda Rhimes
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose ~ Aristotle
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested ~ E. M. Forster
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it ~ Ralph Marston
Encourage me, and I will not forget you ~ William Arthur Ward
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university ~ Albert Einstein
Keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about ~ Marilyn Monroe
Don’t let people tell you you can’t do something. People will try to discourage you from doing tough, challenging things because they’re trying to protect you from the hardships. But what those people don’t realize is they’re also protecting you from success and happiness ~ Chris Boyle
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom ~ Marcel Proust
If you see someone without a smile today, give ’em yours ~ Dolly Parton
Imagine a world with no hate. Now realize, every time you hate, you let that dream die ~ Chris Boyle
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts ~ Albert Einstein
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’ ~ Marcus Aurelius
A real man doesn’t give in to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage and endurance–unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength ~ Marcus Aurelius
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument ~ Desmond Tutu
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do ~ Nathaniel Branden
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion ~ Paulo Coelho
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed ~ Henrik Ibsen
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude ~ Anne Frank
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us ~ Epicurus
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a dog is abandoned in the cold without food, a simple meal by the fire is its greatest dream. Yet for us, that is just a normal day. Be grateful. Appreciate this moment for how great it is ~ Chris Boyle
Step aside for people when you’re walking on the sidewalk. Frequent small gestures of kindness connect us positively, while gestures of thoughtlessness make us resent each other. It’s the little things, when multiplied by millions that change our world ~ Chris Boyle
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping’ ~ Fred Rogers
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another ~ Charles Dickens
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
One small positive thought can change your whole day ~ Zig Ziglar
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity ~ J. Sidlow Baxter
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it ~ Michael Jordan
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
All any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world ~ Elvis Presley
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric ~ Bertrand Russell
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right ~ Ezra T. Benson
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want Zig Ziglar
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts ~ Philip Sydney
Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder ~ Henry David Thoreau
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused ~ Tommy Lee Jones
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it ~ John ruskin
When we seek to discover the best in others we somehow bring out the best in ourselves ~ William Authur Ward
Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them ~ Roy T. Bennet
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely ~ Roy T. Bennett
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week ~ Charles Richards
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it ~ Charles Buxton
Everyone’s time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most ~ Roy T. Bennett
You’ll have bad times but it’ll always wake you up to the good times you weren’t paying attention to ~ Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) in Good Will Hunting
When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do ~ Napolean Hill
When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself ~ Benjamin Franklin
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you’ll realize you’re already in heaven ~ Jack Kerouac
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes ~ Jules Renard
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ~ Mark Twain
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world ~ Robin Williams
Small acts, when multiplied by millions, can transform the world ~ Howard Zinn
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life ~ Mark Twain
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has ~ Margaret Mead
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege ~ Irish Proverb
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things ~ Edmund Hillary
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself ~ Leo Tolstoy
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
You can always give something, even if it is only kindness ~ Anne Frank
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~ Marcus Aurelius
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today ~ Dale Carnegie
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right ~ Peter Marshal
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts ~ Bertrand Russell
I dream of a world where truth is what shapes politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true ~ Neil Degrasse Tyson
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do ~ John Ruskin
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most ~ Abraham Lincoln
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching ~ C.S.Lewis
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t spend your 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 ~ Leo Buscaglia
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking ~ Albert Einstein
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little ~ Edmund Burke
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do ~ Edward Everett Hale
We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors ~ Dolly Parton
Nothing in the 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. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race ~ Calvin Coolidge
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything ~ George Bernard Shaw
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in ~ Isaac Asimov
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn Harriet Beecher Stowe
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader John Quincy Adams
Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude ~ A. A. Milne
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing ~ Hannah Whitall Smith
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has ~ Epictetus
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle ~ John Watson
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for ~ Socrates
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university ~ Albert Einstein
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