Quotes for a better you Part 2

‘I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.’ ~Stephen Covey
‘Someday is not a day of the week.’~Janet Daily
‘Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.’ ~ Zig Ziglar
‘The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.’~ Charles Kingsleigh
‘When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.’ ~Theodore Roosevelt
‘You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.’ ~ Irish Proverb
‘Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.’ Buddha
‘I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.’ ~ Plato
‘A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.’ ~ Elbert Hubbard
‘A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.’ ~ Elbert Hubbard
‘A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.’ ~ Charles Darwin
‘A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.’ ~ William Hazlitt
‘Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.’ ~ Charles William Eliot
‘Chase your passion, not your pension.’ ~ Denis Waitley
‘Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’ ~ Jim Rohn
‘Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.’ ~ Henry David Thoreau
‘Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.’ ~ Roy T. Bennett
‘Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.’ ~ Randy Pausch
‘Goals are dreams with deadlines.’ ~ Diana Scharf Hunt
‘Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.’
~ Steve Maraboli
‘I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.’ ~ Henry Ford
‘If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.’ ~ Toni Morrison
‘If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.’
~ Lev Grossman
‘If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.’ ~ Buddha
‘If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.’ ~ John Quincy Adams
‘I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.’ ~ Marilyn Monroe
‘It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.’ ~ André Gide
‘It is better to travel well than to arrive.’ ~ Buddha
‘It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.’ ~ Oscar Wilde
‘Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.’~ John F. Kennedy
‘Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!’ – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
‘Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.’ ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
‘Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.’ ~ Karen Ravn
‘Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.’ ~ C. S. Eliot
‘Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.’ ~ Groucho Marx
‘Patience is key. Remember: A jug fills drop by drop.’ ~ Buddha
‘Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.’ ~ Buddha
‘People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.’ ~Earl Nightingale
‘Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.’ ~ Anthony Robbins
‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.’ ~ Winston Churchill
‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.’ ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
‘The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell.’ ~ Anonymous
‘There is no friend as loyal as a book.’ ~ Ernest Hemingway
‘There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.’ ~ Anthony Robbins
‘Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries. Today’s purposes can turn yesterday’s defeats into tomorrow’s determination.’ ~ William Arthur Ward
‘What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.’ ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘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
‘When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.’ ~ Lao Tzu
‘You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.’ ~ C. S. Lewis
‘You can have it all. Just not all at once.’ ~ Oprah Winfrey
‘You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.’ ~ Seuss
‘Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.’~ Buddha
‘You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.’ ~ William W. Purkey
‘A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.’ ~ Scott Allen
‘Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.’ ~ S. Lewis
‘Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.’ ~ Plato
‘As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.’ ~ Doug Horton
‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.’ ~Barack Obama
‘Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’ ~ Plato
‘Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.’ ~ Maya Angelou
‘Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition ~ Jackson Brown
‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’ ~ Albert Einstein
‘Failure is success in progress.’ ~ Anonymous
‘For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.’ ~Jessica Savitch
‘He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.’ ~ Plato
‘Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.’ ~ Francis Quarles
‘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
‘However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?’ ~ Buddha
‘I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.’ ~ Thomas Edison
‘I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty.’ ~ Plato
‘If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?’ ~ Doug Horton
‘If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.’~ Plato
‘If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.’ ~Tim Fargo
‘In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.’ Tom Bodett
‘Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.’ ~ Pablo Picasso
‘It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.’ ~ Anonymous
‘It’s not failure, it’s unfinished success.’ ~ Anonymous
‘Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.’ ~ Plato
‘Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.’ ~ Chinese Proverb
‘Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.’ ~ George Allen, Sr.
‘Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.’ ~ Martin Luther
‘Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.’ ~Seneca
‘Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.’ ~ Booker T. Washington
‘One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!’ ~ Martin Luther
‘Only the dead have seen the end of the war.’ ~ Plato
‘Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.’~ Plato
‘Pain is certain, suffering is optional.’ ~ Buddha
‘Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.’ ~Newt Gingrich
‘School is a building which has four walls and tomorrow inside.’ ~ Lon Watters
‘Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.’~ Anonymous
‘Study the past if you would define the future.’ ~ Plato
‘Success is the sum total of small efforts, repeated day in day out.’ ~Robert Collier
‘Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.’ ~George Sheehan
‘The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.’ ~Vince Lombardi Jr.
‘The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.’~ Habeeb Akande
‘The failures and struggles of today will be the juiciest parts of your success story.’ ~ Anonymous
‘The key to heaven’s gate cannot be duplicated.’ ~ Doug Horton
‘The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.’ ~ Thomas Hardy
‘The man who says he can, and the man who says he can not… Are both correct.’ ~ Plato
‘The mind is everything. What you think you become.’ ~ Buddha
‘The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.’~ Roy T. Bennett
The way you store up treasure in heaven is by investing in getting people there.’ ~ Rick Warren
‘There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.’ ~ George Barnard Shaw
‘There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.’~– Buddha
‘Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.’ ~ Buddha
‘To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others’ ~ Buddha
‘To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.’ ~Vince Lombardi Jr.
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.’ ~ Plato
What defines us is how well we rise after falling.’ ~ Anonymous
When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, why didn’t you discover the cure for such and such? The only thing we’re going to be asked at that precious moment is; why didn’t you become you? ~ Elie Wiesel
Who you are tomorrow begin with who you are today ~Tim Fargo
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley
You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethics ~Anonymous
You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.’ ~ Les Brown
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.’ ~ Buddha