You don't need anyone’s approval to be who you're destined to be. Have the courage to look within. Within you already lies your paradise. 
– Melissa Spivey 


Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness 
–Martin Luther King Jr.


Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them 
-Henry David Thoreau


Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson


To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. 
–Bruce Lee


The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. 
-Colin Wilson


Create the paradise within and the paradise on the outside will be born 
-Melissa Spivey


Believe in your dreams and take actions. Free yourself from the chains of negative thoughts and see yourself rise to your personal glory -Melissa Spivey


When I speak of victory I mean it in the mind not money. Without inner strength you will fail. -Rafael M. Garcia


Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. 
-Thomas Jefferson


Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
-E. Joseph Cossman


The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. -Brian Tracy


Believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
 -Margaret Mead


Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. 
-Dale Carnegie


A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 
-Ayn Rand


Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. 
-Jim Rohn


There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. 
-Denis Waitley


Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure 
-Norman Vincent Peale


When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
 -Susan Sarandon


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


The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping. 
-Dale Carnegie


Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. 
-Dale Carnegie


A competent and self confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity 
-Unknown


He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. 
~Henry Ward Beecher


Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. 
-Norman Vincent Peale


Happiness is not an accident.Nor is it something you wish for.Happiness is something you design. -Jim Rohn


Tis better to be alone than in bad company. 
-George Washington


Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
-Dale Carnegie


Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. 
-Vince Lombardi


The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
 -Franklin D. Roosevelt


All power is from within and is therefore under our control. 
– Robert Collier


All that we are is the result of what we have thought. 
– Buddha


Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. 
-Joseph Campbell


Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. 
-Norman B. Rice


When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. 
- African proverb


The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing. 
-Benjamin Franklin


Your most important issue each day is not what's happening around you; it's what's happening within you. 
-Amy E. Dean


Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. 
-Pythagoras


Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
 -Thomas Carlyle


The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
-J. Dulles


An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. 
-Mohandas Gandhi


Action expresses priorities. 
-Mohandas Gandhi


The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. 
-Sonya Friedman


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
 -Bruce Barton


Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. 
-Arthur Christopher Benson


A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. 
-Tom Stoppard


Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
-G Steinem


That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. 
-Abraham Lincoln


A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top. 
-unknown


Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. 
-Dale Carnegie


What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
 -Henry David Thoreau


In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. 
-Kristian Kan


The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. 
-J.D Walters


All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. 
-Walt Disney


The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. 
-Napoleon Hill


You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
-Jean Paul


Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. 
-Herbert Hoover


People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. 
-Epictetus


The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. 
-Henri Frédéric Amiel


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. 
-Hugh Downs


Well done is better than well said.
 -Benjamin Franklin


Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. 
-Walt Whitman


To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment
-Unknown


The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
 -Unknown


Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. 
-Arthur Koestler


He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. 
-Louisa May Alcott


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. 
-John Quincy Adams


The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 
-James Joyce


Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. 
-Plato


Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. 
-Dalai Lama


Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask everything you want also wants you but you have to take action to get it. 
-J. Renard


A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. 
-Neale Donald Walsch


People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. 
-Lewis Cass


Don't find fault. Find a remedy. 
-Henry Ford


An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. 
-Arnold Glasow


Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 
-Andre Gide


You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. 
-Henry David Thoreau


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson


Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. 
-Edgar Allan Poe


Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. 
–Helen Keller


A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. 
-Mohandas Gandhi


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. 
-Benjamin Disraeli


Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. 
-Abraham Lincoln


Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
 -John Quincy Adams


The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
 -William James


Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
 -Robert F. Kennedy


He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
 -John Milton


There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. 
-John F. Kennedy


My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. 
-Abraham Lincoln


The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. 
-Vince Lombardi


And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 
-Nelson Mandela


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. 
-Marcus Tullius Cicero 

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