A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
