- Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities. Jack Ma
- “It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.” ― Conan O’Brien
- “Better ask God to change you, rather than to change your situations for you. Your situations may change, but if you still have a negative attitude, you are likely to take that great change for granted! Change You!” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
- “Being a character may be simple, but no one says being of good character is easy.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
- “Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “It is best to live life gulping down one’s anxiety and flying higher than anybody else.” ― Kyra Gregory, Secrets Clad in Light
- “Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.” ― Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
- “People can’t unshackle all of their true strength without taming their temper.” ― Picazo Basha, Shambala Sect
- “I ought to get some shut-eye. All this thinking isn’t doing me any good. Something good might happen tomorrow, anyway. Today’s over now. I can’t do anything about that. Tomorrow’s what’s important now. What will I do tomorrow?” ― Ao Jūmonji, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 1
- “What is deemed a nightmare by one person another deems an adventure.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.” ― Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
- “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.” ― Dr Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU
- “Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.” ― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
- The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self-confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens (See also: confidence quotes)
- “Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Success requires preparation and persistence effort.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. Samuel Richardson
- “Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?” ― Gregory Peck
- If you think you can’t, you’re right. Carol Bartz
- I will not take “but” for an answer. Langston Hughes
- “Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.” ― Abby Morel
- “Be one of a kind and be one with human kind.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson
- “I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “I knew I couldI thought I wouldThen should I or shouldn’tTime flew and I couldn’t” ― Ramesh Sood, A Little More Than Ordinary : Thoughts for Thoughtful Hearts
- If you own this story you get to write the ending. Brené Brown
- “At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana