“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.”
- Donald Trump
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
- Sylvia Plath
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
- Audrey Hepburn
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
- Peter Drucker
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
- David Allen
“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”
- George Burns
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
- Mother Teresa
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
- Dalai Lama
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
- Helen Keller
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
- Oprah Winfrey
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
- Stephen King
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
- Joseph Campbell
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
“It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out learn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.” – Mark Cuban
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.” – Zig Ziglar
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.” – Tom Hopkins
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.” – Vincent Lombardi
“The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” – Author Unknown
“Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.” – Brian Tracy
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.” – David Sarnoff
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” – John Maxwell
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ” – Albert Einstein
“He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.” – John Foster
“Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Unknown
“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” – Anthony Robbins
“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” – Zig Ziglar
“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.” – Mark Cuban
“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.” – James Whitcomb Riley
“To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
“An Unfailing Success Plan: At each day’s end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them.” — Anonymous
“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” – Napoleon Hill
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” – Napoleon Hill
“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” – James Allen
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” – Ayn Rand
“We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.” – George Herbert Allen
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one`s liberty.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
“Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!” – Hector Crawford
“Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
“Every achiever I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.” – Robert Schuller
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordon
“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith — the idea that ‘I can do it’ — is the opposite of fear (‘What if I fail?’). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation … and eventually success.” – Howard Twilley
“Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.” – Madeline Bridge
“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.” – Ann Landers
“Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.” – General George S Patton, Jr.
“There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.” – Unknown
“It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.” – Miller
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.” — Aeschylus
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
“God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.” – Swedish Proverb
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” – Calvin Coolidge
Amazing! Lifts your spirits up. Am loving the positive thinking!
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
I think, from an Islamic perspective, it is about the nafs. It's not about completely removing it but rather to control it. There are situations where it would be appropriate to have anger, and there are situations where it would be inappropriate to have joy.
@Hulk
Its close to the situation mentioned in this story...
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
-Winston Churchill, (1874 - 1965)
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."
- Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884-1962)
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
- Helen Keller, (1880-1968)
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Hellen Keller
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come,but small ones surround us every day."
- Sally Koch
"We do not remember days,we remember moments."
- Cesare Pavese
"Our lives begin to end,the day we become silent,about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
- Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish Philosopher
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
- Albert Einstein
"Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake."
- Victor Hugo
"Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way."
- Gerald Sittser
"When Satan reminds us of our past, we should remind him of his future."
- Unknown
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never lose an opportunity for seeing anything that is beautiful; For beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, And thank God for it as a cup of His blessing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A journey may be long or short,but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself."
- Jim Stovall
"He who loves his work never labors."
- Jim Stovall
"Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future."
- Jim Stovall
"In those times we yearn to have more in our lives,we should dwell on the things we already have.In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing."
- Jim Stovall
"Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel."
- Jim Stovall
In the end,a person is only known by the impact they have on others."
- Jim Stovall
"Money is nothing more than a tool.It can be a force for good, a force for evil,or simply idle."
- Jim Stovall
"Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment.Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems."
- Jim Stovall
"Laughter is good medicine for the soul.Our world is desperately in need of more medicine."
- Jim Stovall
"The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away."
- Jim Stovall
"Look into the depths of another's soul and listen,not only with our ears,but with our hearts and imagination,and our silent love."
- Joyce Kanelakos
"Keep your fears to yourself,but share your courage with others."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
- Helen Keller
"Life is like riding a bicycle.You don't fall off unless you stop peddling."
- Claude D. Pepper
"It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful,but what you have in your heart."
- Unknown
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
- Washington Irving
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
- Victor Hugo
GIVE THE FOLLOWING GIFTS:
"To your enemy -- forgiveness,
To your opponent --.tolerance.
To a friend -- your heart.
To a customer -- service.
To all men -- charity.
To every child -- a good example
To yourself -- respect"
- Unknown
"Forgiveness doesn't change history;it makes living with it easier."
- Unknown
"Live an honorable life. Then when you get olderand think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time."
- Unknown
"Each new day is a new beginning-
to learn more about ourselves
to care more about others,
to laugh more than we did,
to accomplish more than we thought we could,
and be more than we were before."
- Unknown
"Some people,no matter how old they get,never lose their beauty.They merely move it from their faces into their heart."
- Martin Buxbaum
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The last, if not the greatest,of the human freedoms:to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance."
- Bruno Bettelheim
"Forgiveness does not change the past,but it does enlarge the future."
- Paul Boese
"To know what people really think,pay regard to what they do,rather than what they say."
- Rene Descartes
"It is easier to go down a hill than up,but the view is from the top."
- Arnold Bennett
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
- Abraham Lincoln
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Persian Proverb
He who knows not,
And knows not that he knows not,
Is a fool, shun him.
He who knows not,
And knows that he knows not,
Is a child, teach him.
He who knows,
And knows not that he knows,
Is asleep, wake him.
He who knows,
And knows that he knows,
Is wise, follow him.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees."
- Williard Marriott
"It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it."
- Vince Lombardi
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is what we could be."
- Albert Einstein
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
- Norman R. Augustine
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
- William Shakespeare
"Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life."
- Phillip Brooks
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,but most of the time he will pick himself upand continue on."
- Winston Churchill
Patience is the companion of wisdom."
- Saint Augustine
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world."
- John Burroughs
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
- Samuel Johnson
"Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, You can forget about achieving true success in your life."
- Dr. Dyer
"If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain."
- Emily Dickinson
"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds."
- Unknown
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions."
- Margaret Thatcher
"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
- Erma Bombeck
"The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."
- Helen Keller
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self."
- Aristotle
"The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today, but we can improve if we make use of the potential implanted in us by God."
- Rabbi Samuel M. Silver
"We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are."
- John Maxwell
"If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."
- Shirley Hufstedler
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."
- Barbara Johnson
"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
- Louis Nizer
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength."
- A. J. Crown
"Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God."
- Unknown
"There is enough time in every day to do God's work... In God's way."
- Dr. Ted W. Engstrom
"Dedication is doing the 'BEST' with your life rather than settling for what is only the 'good'."
- Unknown
"It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends."
- Jim Stovall
"Some people are born into wonderful families.Others have to find or create them.Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love."
- Jim Stovall
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
- Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it."
- David Jeremiah
"These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."
- Morrie (Tuesdays with Morrie)
"What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history."
- Edith Schaeffer
"If you live close to God and His infinite grace,you don't have to tell;it shows on your face."
- Anonymous
"Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences."
- Jenny Sanford
"Humor is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles."
- Stan Toler
"Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."
- C. S. Lewis
"Continuous effort -- not strength nor intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill
"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."
- J. Sidlow Baxter
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. "
- Abraham Lincoln
"Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands."
- Elisabeth Elliot
Fretting
"Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way."
- Oswald Chambers
"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic."
- John Henry Jowett
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard,but must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public."
- George Crane
"You can live opposite of what you profess,but you cannot live opposite of what you believe."
- Dallas Willard
"Kind words can be shortand easy to speak,but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa
"Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes."
- John Ortberg
"What afflicts us is a corruption of the heart, a turning away in the soul. Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned toward the wrong things. And only when we turn them toward the right things -- toward enduring, noble, spiritual things -- will things get better."
- John Buchanan
"Wherever you are, be all there."
- Jim Elliot
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
- Pericles
"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
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