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Failure is a pitfall of working without a plan.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Everybody is a champion! Everybody has conquered something in life before! You have achieved something great before: your first time of walking. Remember how life would have been should you have failed to challenge and overcome that challenge, even as an infant! If you could do that as an infant, you can conquer great challenges now to leave great and indelible mark before you go! He who thinks failure has a super power over him should remember the first day he took the first step to walk! He who wants to end it all because of failure must think of why he never ended the journey of life just because he tried walking the first time ever and fell, but stood up and tried over and over until he could walk without a fall! Take your courage and be a champion! Dare to conquer life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Tu puedes, tu SIEMPRE puedes
— Mi madre
It's time we allow our youth to de tangle life with ease.
— Judith H Specht, Housekeepers Please! The Adventures of Lili, Zeke and Bella!
Life should not be measured by duration alone but by donation also, by what you do during your lifetime.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The best way to discredit something is to come with a better way of doing that thing.
— Khuliso Mamathoni
Goals help you look towards the future with anticipation and excitement rather than with anxiety, and when clearly defined and broken into smaller steps, they enable you pay the price needed to achieve your dreams.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
All goals are not created equal
—  the size of the goal matters but it isn’t as important as the passion behind the goal.
My point, continued Rhy, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and I.
— V.E. Schwab
God created the soul pure, simple and clean of all stain of sin, with a certain beatific instinct towards Himself whence original sin, which the soul finds in itself, draws it away, and when actual is added to original sin the soul is drawn yet further away. The further it departs from its beatific instinct, the more malignant it becomes because it corresponds less to God.
— St. Catherine of Genoa, The Treatise on Purgatory
APRIL 20, 2017 Day 110 of 365...God did not bring you far to fail you now, it has full of succession both good vibes and bad times. But still have a way
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
The greatest value in the goal process is the skills, the knowledge, the discipline, and the character you develop in pursuit of your goal.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
- Te iubesc atat de mult, mi-a zis incet. Daca as putea , ti-as lua toate tristetile si toate durerile.- Cu anumite dureri traiesti toata viata. Nici macar Dumnezeu nu te scapa de ele. Le porti in suflet toata viata, de parca soarta ar vrea sa nu te lase niciodata sa uiti ca ai fost ranit.
— Irina Binder, Fluturi
Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will weaken.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Godly character is what you are when you've been tried and proven. It is not what you say you are, or what people think you are but, instead, it is what shines through after you have suffered and have endured. It is the proof of your genuineness.
— Robin Bertram
There is a direct relationship between the number of times you attempt a task and the likelihood of success.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is most greatly experienced in the heart of those willing to surrender all self-sufficiency: self-promotion, self-reliance, self-protection, and self-absorption: it is a gift given.
— Robin M. Bertram
Moving on feels heavy because you have been weighed down by fear
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
It's better to move on now and feel a pinch, than hold on and later treat a wound
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.
— Sameer  Khan, Eerie Edges
We live a life of opposites. We want things we can’t have and have things we don’t want.
— Raymond C. Nolan
Fear will always be a tenant in your mind, but do not make fear the landlord of your mind.
— Wisdom Primus, Being Successful While Lying on the Couch! Really?: How to Beat Procrastination, Develop Confidence and Take Massive Actions to Achieve What You Want in Life.
If your dreams are so simple and easy to attain, why don’t you walk straight to them and take them?
— Wisdom Primus, Being Successful While Lying on the Couch! Really?: How to Beat Procrastination, Develop Confidence and Take Massive Actions to Achieve What You Want in Life.
HellOoo...Inspiration I believe that one day current infinity presence of everyone will be no longer available in this space... Am I right ? And it will be over like other creative masters of this world who had Awarded New face to this world and our society to make it beautiful. So, I was looking up in the sky in the night one day from my window and asking myself what should I do to keep all the Philosophy and Skills learned from this life and experiences by safekeeping bound to myself central in the 6feet grave one day like my other inspirational master’s - Steve Job and M.Ali etc...But it should amplify and spread its fumes of creativity and paint with the contrasting colors every possible area for the reason that the world is so abstract “ Not Young to so New Young Minds ” every generation needs that because it's already too dark in your deadpan room which is ultimately final place to reside.So, why don't we use this life to fill every soul with colors, positivity and education along upright knowledge.
— Danish Ahmad Afsar Ali
Effort is the foundation of all achievements and is the single greatest competitive advantage and quality you must consistently apply to achieve your dreams.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.
— Mensah Oteh
Your rewards in life will be in proportion to the effort you apply.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
18.	Godly character is what you are when you've been tried and proven. It is not what you say you are, or what people think you are but, instead, it is what shines through after you have suffered and have endured. It is the proof of your genuineness.
— Robin M. Bertram
Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort.
— Mensah Oteh
Success is not simply about intelligence and ambition. The time invested, the quality of preparation, and the effort applied are essential to excellence or mastery.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Working hard alone without being smart and consistent won’t lead to success.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Wisdom allows you to decide how best to apply yourself to get the most return on your time and energy invested.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Hard work without purpose seldom leads to success.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
To be successful you must be willing to work hard, work smart, work consistently, and most importantly do all three simultaneously over a long period of time.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Goals are the result of bringing your dreams, ideas, and ideals into a real and examinable form by giving them permanence in written form.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
They are probably the single most important deciding factor for long-term success, and your ability to set and make plans to achieve them is the master skill to your successful future.
— Mensah Oteh
Long-term goals provide focus, but inspiration comes from the accomplishment of short-term goals.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
In order to be successful you must decide to be intentional about what you do, how you live, and who you are becoming.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it’s impossible to persevere.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The person you grow to become in pursuit of a goal makes the journey a memorable experience.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Life isn’t about what you have, it’s about who you are.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Select carefully and continuously review your circle of influence, and be unapologetic about who you exclude.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Love everyone but chose your friends with caution.
— Mensah Oteh
Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times.
— Mensah Oteh
Don’t be naïve – appearance matters. Style comes before substance during first impressions. People judge based on what they see before they find out what’s within.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
You’ll live your life at the least common denominator of those you spend the most time with if you are not watchful.
— Mensah Oteh
Your associations play a crucial part of your success equation. Study them closely because they will help or hinder you from reaching your potential.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Don’t leave it to chance, find success and replicate it.
— Mensah Oteh
Your environment and the associations you keep will affect how you think, feel, and act, and ultimately the results you get.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
You are the best thing that will happen to someone today.
— Mensah Oteh
Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
If you wish to be successful, you have be willing to invest the time, energy, and money necessary to associate with the right people.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
You could be performing below your potential in areas where you are relying on your own experiences alone and without the guidance of a trusted mentor.
— Mensah Oteh
Develop a strong thirst for positive associations and learning from others, because the right people can take you further than you can go on your own.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Incredible ideas, results, and outcomes are possible when two or more minds come together for a common purpose.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.
— Mensah Oteh
Less is more, especially in relationships. You must understand and appreciate the importance of quality in relationships over quantity.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Most will do what’s comfortable because, let’s face it, we all like guarantees. Working a draining 9-to-5 will guarantee that your rent is paid on time, it’ll guarantee that your loans will be taken care of, it’ll guarantee you three square meals every night of the week. What if you broke down an entire lifetime of guarantees and found that your most prized moments consisted of standard, fragmented memories; high school dances, learning how to drive a car, graduating college… It’s almost as if you stopped living life the moment your education ended, the moment it was time to ‘grow up’ and ‘get a real job.
— Jayme Karales, Practice Makes Perfect
Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.
— Peprah Boasiako
You're not free unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.
— Unsure of Author by
We stand on the shores of a Mystery, carried by the beauty of the horizon into fantasy that gives birth to our reality. So live like each moment is filled with gold.
— Tessa Taylar
Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.
— Robin M. Bertram
Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses
— Robin M. Bertram
Our joy is not strapped by the confines of our present situation
—  it is deeply rooted in the confidence we have in Jesus Christ. It cannot be moved.
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.
— St. Jane Francis de Chantal
Don’t live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today.
— Mensah Oteh
Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Sacrifice doesn’t mean giving up something for nothing
—  it means giving up one thing for another of a greater perceived value.
You are often prevented from reaching your full potential because you hold so tightly to your past success.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.
— Mensah Oteh
Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Success comes with a promise and a price. The price has to be paid in full and in advance before the promise is fulfilled.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
If you are serious about achieving your desired goals, be willing to let go of the small pleasures found in the moment that may sabotage your chances of experiencing true pleasure when the sacrifice is paid.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.
— Mensah Oteh
The level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make.
— Mensah Oteh
The discipline of delaying gratification is a factor for predicting success.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Without a compelling vision to draw you away from your present and pull you through any challenges and into the future, it becomes easy to settle for a lesser life than the one you could achieve.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
If you pay the price for success, you win. If you avoid payment, you lose. It’s really that simple.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Your willingness to sacrifice who you are today for who you need to be in the future is a necessary decision on the success journey.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
You can only build on success, but to do this you have to be willing to let go of your last success and use it as a stepping stone for your next achievement.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Success has more to do with what you are willing to sacrifice than your skills, talent or IQ.
— Mensah Oteh
Success comes as a result of working towards fulfilling your potential and closing the gap between who you are now and who you are capable of becoming.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Even the most noble of men are capable of committing the most heinous crimes when their souls cry out for help and that cry goes unanswered. If we spent half as much time building others up as we do tearing them down, we'd find the ladder of success is far greater than the rope of doom.
— Michael Benningfield
A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A star doesn’t need words to tell the world what it does
—  it just shines.
Your vision helps the world identify you at the appropriate time.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Those whom you spend most of your time with, and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts, play a significant part in who you become and the future you have.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Those in your inner circle can significantly influence your success and the progress you make towards achieving your dreams.
— Mensah Oteh
Success is achieved by the deliberate consistent discipline of taking small steps daily rather than one large step occasionally.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Taking action provides immediate feedback and an opportunity to review your progress to see if you are on the right track.
— Mensah Oteh
The first step may be the hardest, but once you take action you create motion, which in turn builds momentum.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success.
— Mensah Oteh
The best way of creating motivation is to do something. If you take action, motivation will follow
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Waiting for things to happen is like daydreaming. To break out of that cycle, you must be willing to take the first small step.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.
— Mensah Oteh
Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.
— Mensah Oteh
If your actions are combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.
— Mensah Oteh
Consistency is the difference between game excellence and an excellent game. Successful people do consistently what the others do occasionally.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Feedback is to success like rest is to the body.
— Mensah Oteh
What you do consistently shapes your life.
— Mensah Oteh
Your success will be in direct proportion to your level of consistency in your application of the daily activities and actions needed for success.
— Mensah Oteh
The shadow demons (fears) you've been avoiding keep you stuck in a rut, a prisoner in your own life - it's time to break free and shine!
— Sharon Kirstin, The Answers Within
Just like a flower, you are a creation of unique beauty from the one essence of life.
— Sharon Kirstin, The Answers Within
Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear.
— Sharon Kirstin, The Answers Within
When you tune into your soul essence and are in harmony with the Supreme, you are tapped into your superpowers.
— Sharon Kirstin, The Answers Within
Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.
— Mensah Oteh
Create in your mind a picture of what you want and then live that vision as if it already exists.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
A vision is a promise of the future as seen in the present.
— Mensah Oteh
Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
To achieve success, you need to develop the ability to see through your mind’s eye continuously.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
The most successful individuals and leaders achieve their dreams because they have a clear vision they have committed their life to.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Success is built on what you are able to see and create with your mind.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
The difference between those who achieve their dreams and those who don’t is in their ability to see not only with their eyes but also their minds.
— Mensah Oteh
The power and magnetic pull of your vision is hinged on the purpose and passion behind it and, most importantly, the intent.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Your life today is a direct reflection of the decisions you made and the actions you took.
— Mensah Oteh
Your vision helps you filter your decisions or choices and directs your actions.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
Your vision is a glimpse of your purpose and a picture of your larger dream.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
— St. Hildegard of Bingen
I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.
— Jakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things 1622: As Above So Below
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
— Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works
If my friend asks me to sit in a temple belonging to a God that I do not know, because he needs a friend to sit with him, I will be happy to sit there in the foreign temple. Because the temple itself is an outer container only. What is the true religion? What is the inner oil contained by that outer container? The inner oil is the friendship I share with my friend. The true religion is being there to sit beside my friend. If I cannot do this for my friend, then how am I worthy to sit in any temple, whether belonging to a God that I know or to a God that I don't know? If there is no inner oil within my soul, I do not deserve to sit in any temple. Religion is the friendship within the heart, not the place where we sit on a holy day. Religion is the oil within the lamp, not the metal container we see as the lamp.
— C. JoyBell C.
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.
— St. Clare of Assisi
Waiting is often a decision not to accept responsibility and is one of the reasons why some people never reach their potential.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
An Angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.
— St. Padre Pio
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
— St. Dominic
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
— Bernard of Clairvoux
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.
— St. Gertrude the Great
However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
— St. John of the Cross
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
— Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
The moment you choose to be accountable for all outcomes in your life, you distance yourself from the position of a victim and assume the role of a change agent.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.
— Mensah Oteh
We all have within ourselves the inclination to try to pass the blame to others when things don’t work in our favour. The ultimate challenge comes from suppressing this innate desire and replacing it with accountability and ownership for all things, good or bad.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
— St. Teresa Of Avila, The Autobiography of St. Teresa Of Avila: By St. Teresa Of Avila - Illustrated
One of the greatest obstacles to success is the belief is that your future is predetermined. It isn’t. You decide the outcomes through your decisions and actions.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
It’s easy to play the victim card (all of us have done this), but this mindset is one of the greatest obstacles to progress and growth.
— Mensah Oteh, Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life
Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.
— Mensah Oteh
Ideas and dreams are only valuable after they have been acted on.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
A mediocre idea acted on is of more value than a handful of brilliant ideas that remain in your mind.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
Talent alone does nothing
—  dreams and incredible ideas alone do nothing. Action is needed to create change.
To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take consistent and improved action over a defined period.
— Mensah Oteh
Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success. When combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success.
— Mensah Oteh, The Good Life: Transform your life through one good day
You may spend much time and energy in preparation that you forget that the most important and essential step is action.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.
— Mensah Oteh
Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.
— Mensah Oteh
Consistency in action is an essential component of success.
— Mensah Oteh
To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take massive action over a long period, even when there is no evidence of progress.
— Mensah Oteh
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
— Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
— Frederick Lewis Donaldson
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
— Albert Camus
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
— Gabriel García Márquez
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy
—  they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
— Mark Twain
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
— W.P. Kinsella
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
— Ayn Rand
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.
— David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
All happiness depends on courage and work.
— Honoré de Balzac
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
— Mark Twain
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
— Mother Teresa
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Man only likes to count his troubles
—  he doesn't calculate his happiness.
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
— Hunter S. Thompson
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
— Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness
—  it has no taste.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
— Rita Mae Brown
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
— Robert Frost
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
— Aristotle
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
— Carrie Jones, Need
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
— Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
— G.K. Chesterton
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
— Drew Barrymore
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Laughter is poison to fear.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
— Edgar Allan Poe
You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
— Charles Bukowski
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, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
— Marianne Williamson
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
— Bill Watterson, Weirdos From Another Planet: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Six: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
— John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry & June
I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.
— Sri Chinmoy
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
— J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
— Edith Wharton
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
— C.S. Lewis
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. 
— William James
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
— Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
— Epictetus
Very little is needed to make a happy life
—  it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.
— George Gordon Byron, Don Juan