Success - Quotes

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is identical with happiness only on condition that we have aimed at and attained those things in life which are really worthwhile, and – if success is to be complete – the most worthwhile. Any success which does not result in happiness, in some one of its varied forms, for self or for others, is a sham. - Frank Chapman Sharp

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. - Rick Pitino

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey

There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component… But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. - Deepak Chopra

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and co-workers, and even strangers you meet along the way. - Barbara bush

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar

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Quote Worthy

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swivelled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. - Bryce Courtenay

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different – there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. - Sonia Sotomayor

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. - Leonardo Da Vinci

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else. - Joshua Slocum

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and hope. - Plato

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. - Haruki Murakami

When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each colour of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life. - Christy Ann Martine

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Global Warming

I used to think that top environmental problems are biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that. - Gus Spoth

All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. - Barack Obama

As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years. - Elizabeth Kolbert

Avoiding a planet-changing global warming catastrophe is why we urgently need to transform the global energy system to a carbon-neutral one. The clock is ticking. - Martin Hoffert

For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering. - Fred Krupp

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. - Tony Blair

Global warming must be seen as an economic and security threat. - Kofi Annan

Global warming sounds so big that it's hard to imagine that you as an individual can do anything about it ("what I do is such a tiny drop in the bucket it doesn't matter anyway"). But that's where you're wrong: the reason Earth is in peril is because of individual actions – by me, by you, by the person sitting next to you, by the person you bump into on the street. The bad news is that when we put all those individual actions together, it becomes on huge number – big enough to change climate, big enough to change how Earth supports life. The good news – the very good news – is that, just as the problem is the sum of what each one of us is doing, so is fixing the problem. - Anthony D. Barnosky

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth – at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. - Eileen Claussen

It is true that there are still some who deny that global warming is taking place, or that it constitutes a serious problem. Others, while recognizing that global warming is occurring, do not accept that it results from human activities and hence effectively deny that action can be taken to combat it. The great majority of atmospheric scientists, however, now accept that man-made emissions – chiefly, but not only, of carbon dioxide – are aggravating the so-called 'greenhouse effect', thereby causing the world to warm up to what amounts to a dangerous extent. - Barry Holden

No single technology will stop global warming, but there is a silver bullet: a cap on carbon that will launch all these solutions into the mainstream. - Fred Krupp

Life - Quotes

What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. One of life’s lessons is always moving on. it’s okay to look back and think of fond memoires but keep moving forward. - Unknown

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it. - Neil Gaiman

The beautiful thing about life is that you can always change, grow and get better. You aren’t defined by your past. You aren’t your mistakes. - Unknown

I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. - Jack London

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over? - Robert Fulghum

Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere. The great art is to get and to keep out of them. - Christian Nestell Bovee

If life be wretched, it is hard to bear it; if it be happy, it is horrible to lose it; both come to the same thing. - Jean De La Bruyere

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. - Lin YuTang

Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else. - Jeffrey Eugenides

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and downs, but that’s its beauty. - Unknown

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

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Quote Worthy

Let us labour for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. - Horace Mann

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other. - Anuj Somany

Sometimes we feel all doors are closed in our lives. But all the closed doors may not be locked, they may be waiting for your knock. - Unknown

If you have the spirit of understanding everything in a positive way, you will enjoy each and every moment of life, whether it’s pressure or pleasure. - Unknown

Sometimes, our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. - Ernest Hemingway

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. - Rumi

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. - Henry David Thoreau

Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever. - Unknown

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day, you will be at the place you always wanted to be. Don’t stop believing. - Unknown

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Truth - Quotes

He who clips away a little truth, and puts in a patch of falsehood to make measure, is likely to become a skilful manufacturer of lies. - John Thornton

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. - Horace Mann

Hurt me with the Truth but, never comfort me with a Lie. - Unknown

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. - Abraham Lincoln

I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. - Howard Zinn

If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it. - Wilbur Wright

If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening. - Confucius

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other! - Washington Allston

If we think we have found truth for ourselves, above all things, let us not impose it on one another. Let us lock upon it all the doors of consciousness. For however inspiring it may be to us, however ennobling, when once we try to impose it on another it becomes a poison. - John Daniel Barry

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. - Unknown

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself. - Cassandra Clare

If you do not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? - Dogen Zenji

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. - Emile Zola

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

If you want to find out the truth, ask effective questions which are open-ended, concise and non-challenging. - Unknown

If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. - Zen Master Seng Tsan

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth – however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say – must be told. - Al Gore

In all debates, let Truth be thy aim, not Victory. - William Penn

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. - Walter Cronkite

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to. - Jennifer Lopez

Happiness - Quotes

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. - Ralph Harslon

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. - Marcel Pagnol

One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that happiness was never in the hands of other people. - Bianca Sparacino

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. - Earl Nightingale

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go lime the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. - The Buddha

The secret to being happy is keeping a sense of humour, making the most of everyday, and taking time to enjoy the little things. - Unknown

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. - Doinsky

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. - John Lubbock

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. - Gretta Brooker Palmer

Learn to be happy with what yo have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn

Happiness consists in moderate desires, wants easily satisfied. - James Platt

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. - C. S. Lewis

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Quote Worthy

If someone comes into your life and has a positive impact on you, be thankful that your paths crossed. And even if they can’t stay for some reason, be thankful that they somehow made you happy, even if it was just for a short while. - Unknown

We come with nothing, we go with noting, but one great thing we can achieve in our beautiful life is… a little remembrance in someone’s mind and a small place in someone’s heart. - Unknown

Instead of judging others as people who ought to behave in certain ways, see them as reflecting a part of you, and ask yourself what it is you are ready to learn from them. - Wayne Dyer

When you believe something is hard, the universe demonstrates the difficulty. When you believe something is easy, the universe demonstrates the ease. - Abraham Hicks

You don’t always need a logical reason for doing everything in your life. Do it because you want to, because it’s fun, because it makes you happy. - Unknown

You can give a person knowledge, but you can’t make them think. Some people want to remain fools, only because the truth requires change. - Unknown

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. - Unknown

Sometimes things happen to us that we just don’t understand. These things sometimes become the doors and window to our destiny. - Andrea Nugent

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

Some days are for falling in love with people some days for cities and some for your time in solitude. - Akif Kichloo

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. - Rumi

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. - Edward de Bono

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The Mind - Quotes

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. - Lao Tzu

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. - John Allston

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear.  If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear. - Unknown

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - Chinese Proverb

If you would make your mind strong, you must give it strong food. - Reuen Thomas

In the world of mind, as in that of matter, we always occupy a position. He who is continually changing his point of view will see more, and that too more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be. - Arthur Helps

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you. - Leon Brown

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. – The Buddha

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free. - Dilgo Rinpoche 

It is our minds that make our lives so homeless. - John O'Donohue

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. - Ovid

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. - Christopher Morley

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs. - Eckhart Tolle

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Keep your mind humble, and open to new ideas. You will learn much more in the process, and continue to develop as a human being. - Unknown

Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. - Joseph Addison

Let the mind be enlarged…to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind. - Francis Bacon

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

Man has amazing potentialities of mind but like treasure hidden in the mountain they are of little use to him until he has cleared away the dense matter that keeps them concealed from himself. - K. Sri Dhammananda

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love - Quotes

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability. - Monica Johnson

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. - Mother Theresa

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. - Oscar Wilde

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me. - John Irving

Anyone can love you when the sun is shining. In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you. - Unknown

To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are. - Eric Micha’el Leventhal

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. - Torquato Tasso

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. - T. Tolis

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. - Isadora Duncan

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. - Jeaniene Frost

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