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We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when I was younger, about a father who lifts his young son onto his back to carry him across a flooding river. 'When I am older,' said the boy to his father, 'I will carry you across this river as you now do for me.' 'No, you won't,' said the father stoically. 'When you are older you will have your own concerns. All I expect is that one day you will carry your own son across this river as I no do for you.' Cultivating this attitude is an important part of Humanism--to realize that life without God can be much more than a series of strict tit-for-tat transactions where you pay me and I pay you back. Learning to pay it forward can add a tremendous sense of meaning and dignity to our lives. Simply put, it feels good to give to others, whether we get back or not.
— Greg M. Epstein, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?
— Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey
— Kathy Petrakis, Passion and Pain
What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same?Doubt you'd be happy.So, why are you afraid of change?
— Karen Salmansohn
Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.
— Susan Mallery, Sweet Trouble
Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Failures can be called ‘strengtheners’ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Always make your future bigger than your past.
— Dan Sullivan, The Quotable Dan Sullivan
Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado, Pursuing Your Destiny: How to Overcome Adversity and Achieve Your Dreams
I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...
— Destiny Booze
Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.
— Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any change of disposition or character. This, I believe, arises firstly from causes that have already been discussed at length, namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One can also see of two cautious men the one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; all this arises from nothing else than whether or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times. This follows from what I have said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect, and of two working similarly, one attains his object and the other does not.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
There is no real world, just the one you create.
— Jolene Stockman, Total Blueprint for World Domination
In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
— John Paul Warren
Your only limitations are the ties you allow to bind you.
— Saundra Dalton-Smith, Set Free to Live Free: Breaking Through the 7 Lies Women Tell Themselves
Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.
— Teresa Mummert
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
— Deborah Day
Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.
— Victoria Addino
Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also feel it and allow you inside their space.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.
— Lama Surya Das
When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
One of the Secrets in Life is to Make Stepping Stones out of Stumbling Blocks.
— Jack Penn
If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.
— Lisa Scottoline, Killer Smile
In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Be mindful of the link between action and outcome. Ask yourself: If I repeat today's action 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?
— Guideposts
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
— Kenneth Hildebrand
For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Life would have been beautiful if there weren't any problems.
— Santosh Avvannavar, Black, Grey and White
Train up a child in such a way she or he should go even when she or he is old she or he will not depart' Proverb 
— Santosh Avvannavar, God's Table: The Last Supper
We often fail to see that there is an invisible wall in a relationship - Cord 10, In Between Us!
— Santosh Avvannavar
You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.
— R.v.m.
People often try to distinguish between personal and professional life, but they end failing - Cord 8 : Are we Computers?
— Santosh Avvannavar
What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
— Robert Frost
If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the abundance that lies in store for you.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.
— Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living?
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If we can acquire an attitude of self-belief, then we will surely determine our future actions and our future life opportunities.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
The Jedi is a practitioner of mind mastery. He realizes that whatever they are experiencing, they are creating and that they can change their lives in an instant by changing their thoughts, their focus and the way they are observing and engaging the energy of the world around them and the people who they’ve invited into their lives to play whatever roles they’ve chosen them to play.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Gone are the days when 19-inch biceps would once command respect. A Jedi doesn’t walk around with their arms flexed and with a thousand yard stare in their eyes. They walk with a good posture, their head held high and with a serious, yet friendly, look on their face.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don’t just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
— John Paul Warren
Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.
— Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Tap into ‘The Force’ and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Failing to make it to the list of the best 5 students in class or not being named the team captain should not make anyone feel like they have failed.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
How would your life be different if...You didn’t wait for someone else to fix a problem or social issue? Let today be the day...You take up a cause that you feel in your heart and give your time and efforts towards that cause.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
For young adults,the growth from silly to serious can be very fast, indeed.
— Dean Cumings
I m human, I m not perfect. Although, I make mistakes all the time.
— Chetan Bhagat
Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
— John Paul Warren
I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.
— John Paul Warren
The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.
— John Paul Warren
Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron
— John Paul Warren
Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.
— R. N. Prasher
The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Overcoming the Challenges of Life
We don't have to take our personality so personally.
— Wes "Scoop" Nisker
The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine. 
— Earle Birney
Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam
There is nothing that works out for the worst that won't work out for the better.
— Karldon Okruta
Live Life Fully & Abundantly
— Gabbriella Conte
The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it, sleeps the unborn hourIn darkness, and beyond thy power:Behind its unreturning line,The vanished hour, no longer thine:One hour alone is in thy hands,--The NOW on which the shadow stands. 
— Henry Van Dyke
How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.
— Destiny Booze
Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.
— Sarah Wylie, All These Lives
The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.
— Steve Maraboli
Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
— Napoleon Hill
A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
— Ogwo David Emenike
...Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway....They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!
— John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner
Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.
— Belsebuub
Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe?
— James D. Maxon
Death is more uni­ver­sal than life everyone dies but not every­one lives. 
— Alan Sachs
Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Circumstances, knowledge or birth do not determine the realisation of your desires. It is only you who are blocking the achievement of your dreams and goals.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
This inner Being is all powerful, intelligent, indestructible and a storehouse of knowledge and wisdom. This inner core is truly who and what you are and is perpetually trying to connect with your outward self.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse
— Connor George Serbin
be who you set out to be...
— Gino Norris
Each man follows his own path - his own destiny, if you will. And only he is responsible for the choice.
— Heather Graham, Night Moves
It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.Your attitude is your choice!
— Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential”.
— John Paul Warren
The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!
— John Paul Warren
Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it.
— Hannah Salwen, The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back
I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
MY FIVE DOS FOR GETTING BACK INTO THE GAME: 1. Do expect defeat. It’s a given when the stakes are high and the competition is working ferociously to beat you. If you’re surprised when it happens, you’re dreaming; dreamers don’t last long. 2. Do force yourself to stop looking backward and dwelling on the professional “train wreck” you have just been in. It’s mental quicksand. 3. Do allow yourself appropriate recovery—grieving—time. You’ve been knocked senseless; give yourself a little time to recuperate. A keyword here is “little.” Don’t let it drag on. 4. Do tell yourself, “I am going to stand and fight again,” with the knowledge that often when things are at their worst you’re closer than you can imagine to success. Our Super Bowl victory arrived less than sixteen months after my “train wreck” in Miami. 5. Do begin planning for your next serious encounter. The smallest steps—plans—move you forward on the road to recovery. Focus on the fix. MY FIVE DON’TS: 1. Don’t ask, “Why me?” 2. Don’t expect sympathy. 3. Don’t bellyache. 4. Don’t keep accepting condolences. 5. Don’t blame others.
— Bill Walsh, The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while
— Heather Richards
Strange things are always abounding. Watch and discern. There is always a lesson to be learned. 
— Vanessa Richardson, Love Found Me
It's simple: What you put in, is what you get out.
— Akiroq Brost
If you dare take the challenge, you will possess the courage to conquer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone has moments of weakness. But that doesn't make you weak.
— Katie Alender, As Dead As It Gets
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.
— Asa Don Brown
If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.
— Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.
— Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
Reach for the sky but keep your feet on the ground
— Phil Limbert
You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.
— Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
— Paulo Coelho
Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.
— Ogwo David Emenike, You Are a Star
Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.
— Robert H. Schuller
Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!
— Marcia Casar Friedman
If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes “longer” is "never.
— Honoree Corder, Tall Order! Seven Master Strategies to Organize Your Life and Double Your Success in Half the Time
It takes understanding to be outstanding
— Pastor Simeon Nwani
Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.
— David Drake
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
— Stirling Moss
The “Warrior Ethos” emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a “guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
— Dan Smee, Totally American: Harnessing the Dynamic Duo of Optimism and Resilience to Achieve Success
Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
— Yasmina Khadra
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes.
— Jolene Stockman, Total Blueprint for World Domination
Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.
— Bill Strickland, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.
— Elizabeth von Arnim
Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.
— Heather Graham, Night Moves
Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from "Opoponax Dreams
— Genieve Dawkins
Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.
— Saskia Shakin, More Than Words Can Say
...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.
— Joseph Stalin
For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious. There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
— Fannie Hurst
Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.
— John Paul Warren
Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.
— John Paul Warren
Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.
— Destiny Booze
She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Right beneath the numerous sufferings in life lies the precious gift called success.
— Auliq-Ice
... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
— David Sheff
Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.
— Jack Canfield, How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be: The 25 Principles of Success
You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where you most needed to go.
— April Bryan
A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.
— Ogwo David Emenike
When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.
— Kevin Ngo, Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action
Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM.
— R.v.m.
Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.
— Ogwo David Emenike
With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
That failure serves a purpose!
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life...Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM
— R.v.m.
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Problems are everywhere, so are Solutions. Unfortunately, we see more of the Problems than the Solutions.-RVM
— R.v.m.
It’s been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius. 
— Julian Pencilliah, The Jetstream : The Rio Carnival
RVM Thoughts for Today - "Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily 
— R.v.m.
Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things...and you are the first order of your business.
— Elaine Marolakos Edelson, Aries Fire
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
— Orson Welles
I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The slogans “hang on” and “press on” have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
— Bill Loguidice
If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
Are you seeking to be offended?
— Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them--when they feel understood by you--that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
— Stephen Cove
We do not just go through life blindly,we create our own journey.Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.
— Judie McCarty, Finding Your Wings: Unleashing Your Creative  Powers
Are you living in the moment?
— Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
What is an unconditional state?
— Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, ‘here or nowhere,’ couldst thou only see!
— Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!
— Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.
— Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, ‘here and now,’ without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
— José Ortega y Gasset
Jenifer always taught me that starting a job was one thing―—and admirable―—but that following through and completing―—well, that’s where the bravery is.
— Valerie Estess, Tales from the Bed
North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.
— Travis Bowman, Hercules of the Revolution: A Novel Based on the Life of Peter Francisco
(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.
— Bruce Frankel
Someday you shall meet someoneWho's gonna look at you in awe-Flying high, wings all spread,And wonder how it'd be likeTo clip those wings,Tie those feet down,And cage you forever...When you hit the ground,Remember to run
— Sanhita Baruah
Turn your self-hell into self-help.
— Richie Norton
When we suffer we inspire ourselves to change. Imagine we had no pain to overcome, we would not take action to make our life any more meaningful. Turn your suffering into motivation to change.
— Avina Celeste
Look closely at your greatest thoughts about yourself. That's your future.
— Quang Nguyen
One mind, One master.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be true to your sacred self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Inhale courage, exhale fear.
— Unknown
To everyone who gets me, thank you. To everyone who doesn't, thank you too. You give me the motivation to keep succeeding just to piss you off.
— Shane Dawson, It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays
When you hide your flaws you only give them the power to dominate your life. Every time that you fake who you are to cover your flaws, they become stronger and visible to your own eye. You become comfortable with working every day to hide them from everyone else's view. And maybe you try to show the world those flaws but they are rejected because you've hidden them for so long that they couldn't possibly be a true part of you. But then, you show them to the world every day, day after day, and they finally start to disappear from view because they really never were a really big deal in the first place. Accept your flaws or you will never truly be able to live with them.
— Avina Celeste
Sometimes, we can't see our progress. We live our lives every day and can't see how much has changed. I think we all need a piece of reality every once in a while, some item to show us how far we have come from our past to our present. We get so lost in trying to get gratification for our work right away that we forget our small progressive steps. And then, we get a reality check, we see a piece of our past that shows us that everything we've done thus far has been worth it. Maybe you see a piece of writing that you wrote a few years ago, a sketch from the past, or even, like me, you try on a pair of pants that you haven't worn in a few months. And suddenly, everything has become worth it. Your struggle becomes your success. All those days you felt like giving up but you didn't mark the pathway to your future. So keep trying, day after day and look back to the past with a smile.
— Avina Celeste
Stop changing yourself for the sake of other people. You shouldn't care what strangers think and true friends won't ask you to change.
— Avina Celeste
When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life.
— Avina Celeste
Do not refuse to help your own relatives.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I think there’s a point in everyone’s life where they realize that despite their best efforts, they have no choice but to surrender. That carrying on will only bring them more pain or heartache. I don’t think there’s any way that we can avoid these moments. But I just want you to know that I’m not quite there yet.
— Tessa Clare, The Divinity Bureau
Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and make tough decisions, in order to achieve something extraordinary.
— Saad  Salman
It pierced through me like the ray of sun through the darknessAnd I was awakened like the dawnIt hit me just as the lightning strikes in the middle of the stormAnd I'm electrified to the boneFIRE IN MEIt rushed through me like the wind in the cold desert nightAnd my heart is chilled by the fire in meThe fire that guides my wayThe fire that keeps my dreams burning
— Evy Michaels
When nothing is certain in your life, you have a blank canvas to work with. You can determine a new future for yourself with passionate actions. You can pursue anything that you put your mind to. When things seem uncertain it is the best time to take action.
— Avina Celeste
This time will never come again in your life. Enjoy every moment, right now, before the time is gone.
— Avina Celeste
The most important journey in your life will be the journey to find yourself. To find who you are, to find what you love, is the greatest gift in life. Look at yourself, honestly, and find who you really are. To reveal your true self might be scary but the act of learning who you really are is important to make it possible to live your best possible life.
— Avina Celeste
If you were to wake up tomorrow to a life where all your goals had been accomplished but had no memory of the work you put into succeeding, would you feel the happiness that you would have if you had completed your goals yourself? Probably not. Sure, perhaps you would live happily for a while given that you are suddenly living a dream life but in the long run something would be wrong. You wouldn’t have learned the lessons you needed to maintain this new lifestyle. You see, the success is found in the journey, not the finish line. You need to learn the lessons that come with working hard, failing, trying again, and, eventually, succeeding at living the life you have always wanted.
— Avina Celeste
The best way to achieve lasting change in your life is to act slowly and persistently. Do not make radical changes in your life that you have not yet learned to maintain. Act with deliberate care and decisiveness and allow yourself to make the changes you need in your life.
— Avina Celeste
Make a choice. Right now. Are you going to change your life or remain where you are? If you have decided to remain where you are, come back to this question in the future. If you have decided to change, be firm with your decision, do not let yourself or anyone else change your mind. This is your path now, the path of positive self-change. I cannot tell you how you must invoke change to your own life but I can say this will be the most beneficial journey you will ever make.
— Avina Celeste
Release the stress you are holding. Feel the tension leave your body. Now, look at the root of your stress. Find your solution in a moment of calm, not anxiety.
— Avina Celeste
When you keep telling yourself that you are going to start in the future you are really telling yourself that you will never start. The future will never come. You have to get past the excuses that you are giving yourself that prevent you from starting today, right now. If you keep letting yourself tell you lies you will never find the success you are searching for.
— Avina Celeste
Live without expectations. Don’t set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life’s treasures.
— Avina Celeste
We are always planning, telling ourselves that once we figure out the perfect system we will be all set to find our dreams. There is no planning for your dreams. Dreams are a learning process. You need to begin acting towards them or you will make no progress. You can plan the most perfect plan there ever was but with life anything can happen and you need to act as soon as possible rather than wait.
— Avina Celeste
Let your mind have peace for a moment. Push away all the anxious thoughts. Release your tension and breath. Everything is going to work out. It might not be fine now but trust that in time everything will be okay. Allow yourself to rest. Put a hold on your stress. You can always pick up your stress at another time. Breathe. Be calm. Trust in yourself.
— Avina Celeste
Don't believe that the day is without good. The very fact that you are consciously here today is a blessing of itself. Every breath you breathe, step you take, day you live is the greatest gift you can ever receive. Don't let those gifts fall away unappreciated. Live with joy in every moment.
— Avina Celeste
Be kind to others and you will find that others are kind to you. Being positive will spread positivity back to you. If you give out a pleasant energy, you will receive a pleasant energy.
— Avina Celeste
You have to keep trying whether you feel like you can or not. Your future will thank you.
— Avina Celeste
When your time is gone it is gone forever. Take action before your time is gone. Live now.
— Avina Celeste
When a bad thought pops into your head it has no power. Thoughts are weak until you give them attention. Your attention makes them grow stronger. If you keep thinking those bad thoughts, they will consume your life. And when you let go of them, they will leave, fading away just as they came. Focus on the thoughts that make you happy. Focus on the positive and your positivity will grow stronger.
— Avina Celeste
When you commit to doing something every day it is hard. It seems impossible and you want to quit but if you just hang in there you will see it gets easier. Every day you get a little stronger. Every day you try a little harder. There will be times when you want to quit. Your mind will tell you to stop. You need to persist. You need to continue trying every single day. And one day you will notice how easy it has become to do something that seemed so hard in the beginning.
— Avina Celeste
If you fail today there is always tomorrow to try again. You always have that second chance tomorrow.
— Avina Celeste
One of the bravest things you can do is take action towards your dreams. To overcome the fear that holds you back makes you so strong. Your mind will tell you no while your heart says yes and you have to choose which side you will fall on. Let your choice be to take action for the pursuit of your life goals. You may not succeed right away, but had you not taken action, you would never have succeeded anyway. Be brave.
— Avina Celeste
Your actions should reflect what you feel your life should reflect. All action should be to better your life. Your life is your actions, not your inaction. It is not what you say you will do or what others think of what you are doing. It is all the positive and negative things you have done in your life. Act positively for a positive life.
— Avina Celeste
Do not change yourself to please others, change yourself to please yourself. You are the person that truly matters in your life. You are the person you wake up to every morning and fall asleep to every night. Your life is for you.
— Avina Celeste
Everyone should give their dream a chance. Don't give up before you've even started. Let your actions push you to your dreams and don't let the thought of failure be the thing that stops you. It may be hard and you may struggle, but in the end, you can have the pride in saying you tried your hardest to get what you wanted and let nothing stand in your way.
— Avina Celeste
Overcome obstacles as they come rather than worry about when they will arrive.
— Avina Celeste
Everything you do has an effect on your life. It may be positive or negative. If you do positive things in your life, your life will give you positive experiences. If you live a negative life, it is a sign that you must change your actions in the day. Act more positively and your life will be more positive.
— Avina Celeste
If we had given up too soon, we would have miss the sunniest of today.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you.
— Avina Celeste
There are two steps to achieving your dreams. Believe you can do anything you put your mind to. Put your mind to it.
— Avina Celeste
Set your mark on humanity by being your own unique self and doing the things that make your heart shine. With such passion, you can make an impact on the world.
— Avina Celeste
When people attempt to morph themselves into someone they are not as a way of conforming to their view of how they should be, they quell the very parts of themselves that makes them who they need to be. If we all fell under the category of normal, how would anyone ever succeed? We would all hover in the same place forever. No one would improve. Everyone would remain idle. We may even all begin to retrogress. I believe that part of being human is to have the ability to change and improve yourself. Be who you need to be, not who you think you should be.
— Avina Celeste
Simply be and let your being be happy.
— Avina Celeste
I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.
— Avina Celeste
Support those that have supported you.
— Avina Celeste
Take care of your health. Don't look for one quick fix to cure all your ailments. Take the time every day to help your mind, body, and soul heal. It is extremely important for your daily happiness to know that you are supporting your health instead of hurting it.
— Avina Celeste
Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it.
— Avina Celeste
To become the best possible you, you must not only work on improving yourself but on improving others as well. You learn to help yourself when you learn how others need help. We are all just human and are more similar to each other than we might admit. Where others struggle you may struggle too and by seeing their problems from a different perspective you can help find the solutions that you both need.
— Avina Celeste
Let the past be the past as you make your way into the future.
— Avina Celeste
The more you think change is outside of yourself the more you reinforce the idea that you do not hold the power of change inside of you.
— Avina Celeste