Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. —Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narrat qui accepit

It is because you are determined, not flawless, that you attain perfection.

The more I develop the habit of noticing goodness, the more my own sense of wellbeing rises

Virtue illuminates everything; it fills what is empty, heals what is sick and settles what is troubled.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

The wind may blow from any direction, but the direction in which you go depends on how you set your sails.

Let your thinking and doing be equal, for only then will you be said to be a powerful soul who has will power.

Eat, drink and be merry (for tomorrow we die).

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

You have the power to tolerate anyone and any situation. But tolerance is not just suffering in silence. It means going beyond sany personal discomfort you may feel, and giving a gift to whom ever you would tolerate. Give your time, attention, understanding, compassion, care - all are gifts, which paradoxically, you also receive in the process of giving. And, as you do, you will experience your own self esteem and inner strength grow. In this way you can turn tolerance into strength.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

To be peaceful is to be free from expectations and to want nothing from anyone.

Get it down and take risks. sometimes it might not always work out, but that's the only way you can do anything good!

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing

Wherever I am is wherever I am meant to be, whatever I am doing is whatever I am meant to be doing and whatever everyone else is doing is exactly what they are meant to be doing - this is contentment. If you do want to change where you are, or what you are doing, the first thing is to be content with wherever you are and whatever you are doing right now! Paradoxically that's what attracts opportunities and invitations to be somewhere else! Why? Because you are a living magnet, and contentment is one of your most attractive qualities. And the law of attraction says that according to your dominant thoughts so you will attract the people and circumstances into your life. Being content right now attracts the best possible future.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.

If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

When you extend pure love to everyone with selfless motivation that is an attitude of kindness. When you send good wishes and pure feelings to those who are in deep sorrow, that is an attitude of mercy. When you see the virtues rather than the weaknesses in people that is an attitude of compassion. When you bless and uplift someone even as they defame you, that is an attitude of forgiveness. When you tolerate a situation and take responsibility as well as give cooperation even when not appreciated, that is an attitude of humility and self-respect. Every second, every moment and every breath of your life is nurtured by attitude.

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.