I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. 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. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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.
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Don’t let your success of today lull you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
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.
Success and rest don’t sleep together.
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath – so what does that make today worth?
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
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.
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.