Saturday 24 January 2015

Trust Quotes

  • Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.” ― Harper Lee
  • In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.” ― Sophie Kinsella
  • Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” ― Stephen Covey
  • You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.” ― Mitch Albom
  • It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.” ― Jodi Picoult
  • It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley
  • I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” ― Abraham Lincoln
  • If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.” ―Abraham Lincoln
  • Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.” ― Lemony Snicket
  • I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou
  • Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.” ― Shelley Long
  • Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” ― Jodi Picoult
  • Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.” ― Stieg Larsson
  • I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” ― C. JoyBell C
  • Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” ― Julianne Moore
  • Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” ―Finley Peter Dunne
  • Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.” ― Santosh Kalwar
  • Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” ― Corrie ten Boom
  • After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.” ― Evelyn Waugh
  • “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare
  • We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.” ― David Levithan
  • For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” ― Suzanne Collins
  • Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” ― Albert Einstein
  • For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” ― Bo Bennett

Thursday 22 January 2015

Life Quotes

  • "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them . " - Denis Waitley
  • "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -  Wayne Dyer
  • "When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.” -  Les Brown
  • “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” - Zig Ziglar
  • "He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward. " -  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • "There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. " -  Edith Wharton
  • "Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours. " - Swedish Proverb
  • "Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls .” - David Thomas
  • "Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. " - Alice Walker
  • "There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” -  Norman Vincent Peale
  • "Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.” -  John Ruskin
  • "Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination.” -  William Bridges
  • "Heaven never helps the man who will not act.” -  Sophocles
  • "The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes . " - Marcel Proust
  • "It's not what we leave our kids; it's what we leave within them that counts. " - Valerie Sokolosky
  • "Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. " - Samuel Johnson
  • "Deeds not stones, are the true monuments of the great . " - Motley
  • "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” -  Soren Kierkegaard
  • "Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.” -  William Thackeray

Thursday 15 January 2015

Success Quotes

  • "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” - Colin R. Davis
  • "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."- Nolan Bushnell
  • "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."- Anthony Robbins
  • "Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."- Norman Vincent Peale
  • "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney
  • "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." -Benjamin Mays
  • "Success is a lousy teacher, it seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."- Bill Gates
  • "Carpe per diem – seize the check."- Robin Williams
  • "Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it."- Joe Penna
  • "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth
  • "It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business."- Mahatma Gandhi
  • "If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it."- Kim Garst
  • "Success comes down to hard work plus passion, over time. If you work really, really hard over a long period of time, it will pay off."- Stanley Tang
  • "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."-Steve Jobs
  • "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!."- T. Harv Eker
  • "Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."- Peter F. Drucker
  • "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."--Goethe
  • "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." -Andrew Carnegie
  • "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
  • "When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."- Audre Lorde
  • "Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  • "If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do” – Unknown
  • "Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others."- John C. Maxwell
  • "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
  • "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are, the people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances that they want and if they can't find them, make them."- George Bernard Shaw
  • "Distance yourself from things that distance yourself from success if you ever plan on achieving your dreams one day.” - Unknown
  • "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."- Lyndon Johnson
  • "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."- Aristotle
  • "The only disability in life is a bad attitude."- Scott Hamilton
  • "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."- Roger Babson
  • "You’ve created the person you are today. So don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t be 20 years from now.” - Unknown
  • "What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do." -Tim Ferriss
  • "You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.” – John Maxwell
  • "If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."- Billy Joel
  • "The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."- Jack Welch
  • "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."- Steve Jobs

Friday 9 January 2015

Jim Rohn Quotes

  • “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.” - Jim Rohn
  • “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn
  • “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” – Jim Rohn
  • “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” - Jim Rohn
  • “If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy.” - Jim Rohn
  • “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
  • “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” - Jim Rohn
  •  “Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.” - Jim Rohn
  • “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
  • “Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.” - Jim Rohn
  • “No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude.” – Jim Rohn
  • “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” –  Jim Rohn
  • “Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.” - Jim Rohn
  • “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
  • “You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
  • “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” - Jim Rohn
  • “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
  • “Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.” – Jim Rohn
  • “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
  • “One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental “I should” list.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment” – Jim Rohn
  • “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” - Jim Rohn
  • “The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.” - Jim Rohn
  • “The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering.” - Jim Rohn
  • “The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.” - Jim Rohn
  • “We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
  • “The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” - Jim Rohn
  • “My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.” - Jim Rohn
  • “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” - Jim Rohn
  • “One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of your attention.” – Jim Rohn

Happier Quotes


  • “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Benjamin Disraeli
  • “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” Seneca
  • “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” John Henry Jowett
  • “Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.” Unknown
  • “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” Seneca
  • “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” Dennis Waitley
  • “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” Dale Carnegie
  • “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” Andy Rooney
  • “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” Morris West
  • “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” Milton Erickson
  • “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” L.M. Montgomery
  • “If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.” Proverb
  • “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Frederick Keonig
  • “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  • “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw
  • “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
  • “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
  • “Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” Buddha
  • “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” Epictetus
  • “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Marthe Troly-Curtin
  • “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marx
  • “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Confucius
  • “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” Marquis de Condorcet
  • “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” William Arthur Ward

Wednesday 7 January 2015

Personal Growth Quotes

  • "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him .” - Leo Aikman
  • "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going .” - Jim Rohn
  • "One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” -  Abraham Maslow
  • "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings . " - Hodding Carter
  • "What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them .” - Denis Waitley
  • "To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.” -  Author Unknown
  • "Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out. " - Lee Iacocca
  • "God ever works with those who work with will.” -  Aeschylus
  • “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” - Stephen R. Covey
  • "As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. " - Toyohiko Kagawa
  • “What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.” – Russell Simmons – Do You!
  • "When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life. " - Christopher Morley
  • "If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. " - Lord Chesterfield
  • “The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn’t care less about the results.” - John Eliot
  • "Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.” -  Abd-el-Kadar
  • "It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.” -  Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
  • "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. " - Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • "If you want to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of.Feelings follow actions . " - Oseola McCarty
  • "Everybody wants to be somebody;nobody wants to grow.” -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • "Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want.” -  M.J. Ryan
  • "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said .” - Peter Drucker
  • "Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility. " - Albert Schweitzer
  • “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” - Epictetus
  • "The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.” -  Cicero
  • "The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness . " - Lionel Barrymore
  • "There are many things in life that will catch your eye,but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue them. " - Author Unknown
  • "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step .” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch .” - Jim Rohn
  • "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice .” - George Eliot
  • "In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. " - Philip Gilbert Hamilton
  • "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline . " - Harvey Mackay
  • "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” -  Charles F. Kettering
  • "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. " - Hecato, Greek philosopher
  • "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self. " - Montaigne
  • “We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.” – Napoleon Hill
  • "Please understand my friend, that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today.” -  Akin A. Awolaja
  • "You'll never plough a field turning it over in your mind . " - Irish proverb
  • "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. " - Benjamin Franklin
  • "The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
  • "If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich.” -  Su Shi
  • "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” -  Ben Stein
  • "Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind . " - Bob Proctor
  • "Anger is one letter short of danger! . " - Denis Waitley
  • "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough . " - Richard De Vos
  • "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” -  Okakura Kakuzo
  • “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
  • "If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you. " - Eric Allenbaugh
  • "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.It's about learning how to dance in the rain. " - Author Unknown