Mastery

"We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives." - George Leonard

Thoughts

"There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one." - Ralph Marston 

Confidence

"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence." - Jack Canfield

One Day at a Time

"Life is lived one day at a time, and the best way to prepare for tomorrow is to live at your very best today." - Unknown

Journey

"Sometimes, when things take longer than you thought they would, it's just a gentle reminder from your greater self that you have more time than you thought, and that there's a journey to enjoy." - Mike Dooley

Smile

"If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours" - Unknown

Envisage

"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage" - Claude M Bristol

Fear

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." - Dale Carnegie

Love

"Real love always creates, it never destroys. In this, lies man’s only promise." - Leo Buscaglia

Opportunities

"An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere" - Paulo Coelho

Attached

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached 

to the rest of the world." - John Muir

Love

"The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love" - Robert A Heinlein

Love

"We are born to love" - Helen Fisher

Love

"Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies" - Rumi

Mirror

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." - Thomas Dreier

River

"We are River people. We cannot hurry the river. We have to move with its current and understand its ways." - Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Smile

"Every time you smile at someone,
  it is an action of love,
   a gift to that person,
     a beautiful thing."

- Mother Teresa

Dreams

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity" - Keshavan Nair

What you think

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." - Denis Waitley

Do

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz

Follow your heart

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

Focusing the Heart

"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart" - Rumi

Thoughts

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." - Swami Vivekananda

Kindness

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu

Knowing yourself

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true

wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is

true power." - Lao-Tzu

Compete against Yourself

"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself." - Billy Mills 

Cups

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out" - Ray Bradbury

Live

"Are you happy with yourself?
Are you doing what you like?
Gather courage and live the life you please.
Life belongs to those who dare to live." - Unknown

Selfish Nature

"You are uplifters to the core of your being. Part of your selfish nature is to revel in what feels good, and spread it so others may find it too." - Abraham-Hicks

Success

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they are to success before they gave up" - Thomas Edison

Your World

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha

Opportunities

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery guided by a private chart of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them" - Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands

Attitude

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." - David J. Schwartz

Lucky

"We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel" - Tim Rice

Dare

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." - Seneca 

Each Day

"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success." - Louisa May Alcott

Future

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."- Lillian Smith

Live

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman