Quotes

“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” Dr. Seuss

“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” Bonnie Blair

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller

“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” Les Brown

“Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.” Tim Howard

“You always pass failure on the way to success.” Mickey Rooney

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” Nelson Mandela

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” Zig Ziglar

“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” Paulo Coelho

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” Milton Berle


“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” -Dolly Parton

 “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill


“When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is disease.” -V.L. Allinear

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” -Edward Stanley

“Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you’ll have a junk body.” Jeanette Jenkins

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” Hippocrates

“Don’t lose heart: stay consistent. It will take patience and persistence.” Dr. Neal Malik

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” -Unknown

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” Buddha

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” Tony Robbins

“Instead of focusing on all the reasons you CAN’T do something, you need to focus on all the reasons you CAN do something.” – Matt McLeod 

“What separates the champion is his willingness to get up after being knocked down.” – Ross Enamait 


“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” ― Stephen Richards

“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ― Mark Twain

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” ― Brian Weiss

“Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.” ― Brian Weiss

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Fros

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” ― Lao Tzu


Surround yourself with people who talk about visions and ideas. Not people.

“If you can’t stop thinking about it. Don’t stop working for it.” - Unknown

“Be happy with what you have, while working for what you want.” -Helen Keller

“People don’t buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.” -Seth Godin 

“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently.” -Marie Forleo 

“The only difference between where you are & where you want to be is the steps you haven’t taken yet.” - Rigel J. Dawson

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don’t recognize them.” -Ann Landers

“Don’t settle for less just because it’s available.” -Krista Aoki

“The key to success is to start before you are ready.” -Marie Forleo 

“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” - Warren C. Tracy’s Student


“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.” ― Marianne Williamson

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” ― Lalah Delia

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

“Coffee in one hand, confidence in the other.” - Bossbabe Inc

“If you are giving a lot of value, if you are making an impact in people’s lives, it will be reflected in your bank account.” Millie Leung

“When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.” ― Marianne Williamson

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”- Estée Lauder

“Create the highest, grandest vision for your life, because you become what you believe.” - Oprah Winfrey 

“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” - Harriet Braiker

“We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing.  It is time to take ownership in our success.” Tory Burch


The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. ~ Plato

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. Steve Maraboli

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have: it depends solely upon what you think. ~ Dale Carnegie

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not. ~ Isabel Allende


“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” — Matt Haig

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” ― Leonard Cohen

“Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser

“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” — Julian Seifter

“Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language.” — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

“My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March, from Little Women

“We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” ― Sam J. Miller

“The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” — Mama Indigo

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”  — Dan Millman


“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier



“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more” -Lord Byron

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” - Margaret Atwood

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” - Toni Morrison

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Choose only one master—nature." -Rembrandt

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” -John Lennon

“Going to the mountains is like going home." -John Muir

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy." -Issac Newton

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." -Henry David Thoreau

"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” - Peggy O’Mara

“Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States

"Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything is broken, and there's a lot of throwing up." — Ray Romano

“Adults are just outdated children.”  — Dr. Seuss

Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children. -Diana, Princess of Wales

“Embrace the unique way your child is blooming- even if it’s not in the garden you imagined.” -Jenn Soehnlin

"Just when you think you know love, someone little comes along to remind you just how big it really is." —Unknown

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. – O. A. Battista

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”  — Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. -William Stafford