Quotes

1. Health
2. Work
3. Money
4. Home
5. Relationships
6 Self improvement

1. Health


If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.  ~Elbert Hubbard


When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."  Tomorrow is disease.  ~Terri Guillemets


If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you.  ~Carrie Latet

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar

“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good” Lucia Capocchione


Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato

2. Work


The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~ Thomas Edison 


The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.~ Vince Lombardi


Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
~ Henri Matisse

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
~ Henry Ford

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph MarstonHow you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively. ~Norman Vincent Peale

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. ~ Lee Iacocca

You must take action now that will move you toward your goals.

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”


The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Loyd Wright


Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill


A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb


When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. ~Michael Leboeuf


Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
~ Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)


If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw


‎"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter." Peter F. Drucker


The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ~Vince Lombardi


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden


It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee


Do not wait; the time will never be "just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ~Napoleon Hill


All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey
3. Money


It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.  ~George Horace Lorimer


Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel.  It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.  ~Henrik Ibsen


In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.  ~Author Unknown

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do. ~Wayne Dyer

4. Home


There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.  ~Jane Austen


He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven




5. Relationships


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  ~Swedish Proverb


Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.  ~Author Unknown


Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.  ~Margaret Mead

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. ~William Arthur Ward

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ~Warren Buffett

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment…. It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships. ~Norman Vincent Peale

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine


You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ~Harriet Woods


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels


Life is too short to wake up
in the morning with regrets.
So love the people who treat you right
and
forget about the ones who don’t.


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


6 Self improvement


Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. ~ C.R. Lawton


Change yourself and fortune will change with you. ~ PortugeseProverb

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly ~ Henri L. Bergson

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ~Napoleon Hill

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. WattsCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” ~William Pollard

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu

Develop a sense of urgency in your life. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. ~ Lee Iacocca

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment…. It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships." ~Norman Vincent Peale

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

"There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger." ~ Eric Bates

Take time: much may be gained by patience. ~Latin Proverb

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ~Frank Herbert

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. ~Ira Gassen


For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win. ~ Og Mandino

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
Sir William Jones


Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt


Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu