The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
Green grass grows where dry desert ends.
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.
I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
I will walk where failures fear to walk.
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.
Cultivate the habit of laughter.
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
You will move in the direction you are facing.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
Never settle for the crumbs of life.
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.
In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those who reach the top are the ones who are not content with.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
Each problem has a positive side.
The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple
Today.....I begin a new life".
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
