Action

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli 

Decide

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein 

Forever

"Forever — is composed of Nows — " - Emily Dickinson 

Peace

"A smile is the beginning of peace." - Mother Teresa

Desire

“You are what your deepest desire is.  

As your desire is, so is your intention.  

As your intention is, so is your will.  

As your will is, so is your deed.  

As your deed is, so is your destiny." 

- Upanishads 

Love

"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start." - Mother Teresa 

Success

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

Fly

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." - Tennyson 

Love

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. " - Peter Ustinov

Joy

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love." - Mother Teresa

Patient

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves." - Rainer Maria Rilke 

Self

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir

Kindness

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams

Help

"He who has a mind to meddle must have a heart to help." - Emerson 

imagination

"In my dream,
the angel shrugged
and said,
if we fail this time,
it will be a failure of imagination.
And then she placed the world
gently
in the palm of my hand."

Brian Andreas

Become

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be and he will become what he should be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Champions

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali 

Love

"If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK." - Ken Kesey 

Happy Life

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius 

Win

"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy." - Mike Ditka 

Mistakes

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - Edward Phelps

Self

"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre." - D.H. Lawrence

Fear

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela 

Love Yourself

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball

Feel

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein 

Positive action

‎"We are now confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action." - Dr. Martin Luther King

Courage

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." 

- Billy Graham 

Money

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford 

Happiness

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it." - William Feather 

Opportunities

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

asking and receiving

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you." - Jim Rohn

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is giving up on hope that the past did not happen" - Oprah

I am the decisive element

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate; my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de escalated, and whether a person is humanized or de-humanized." - Goethe 

Give

‎"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

Happiest

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have." - Anonymous 

Truth and Beauty

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

New beginning

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson 

Defeat

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon 

Hope

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them." - Louisa May Alcott 

Happiest

"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."- Denis Diderot