QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Mahatma Gandhi

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Alignment
Happiness
Success

John Wooden

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Alignment
Outcomes
Success

Wayne Dyer

There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

Happiness

Gertrude Stein

If a book has been a very true book for you, you will always need it again.

Writing

Dave Ramsey

The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty but those of everyone who’s hasty surely to poverty.

Business
Money
Time

Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Success

Unknown

The oil of appreciation makes the wheels of progress turn.

Emerson

The only real gift is a portion of thyself.

Unknown

Flowers leave their fragrance on the hand which bestows them.

Alan Watts

You yourself are the eternal energy which appears as this universe. You didn’t come into this world, you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

Montaigne

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them. A man may live long yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years but on your will.

Action
Alignment
Happiness
Values

Unknown

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches. p139 think and grow rich

Success

Mary Kay

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Andrew Carnegie

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Steve Martin

Perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Action
Outcomes
Purpose

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Authenticity
Love

Letting Go, p283

Our thoughts determine the extent to which we manifest our talents and abilities, and they set the quality and quantity of our successes and failures.

Success

Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things.

Purpose
Spirituality

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the naked eye.

Authenticity
Love

Unknown

What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

Action

Sheila Krystal

You are only one thought away from a good feeling.

Emotions
Happiness

Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Happiness
Success

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness
Purpose

Unknown

A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

Values

Wittgenstein

All I know is what I have words for.

Authenticity
Writing

Terrence McKenna

The world is made of language.

Writing

Hafiz

I am a hole in the flute through which the Christ breath flows.

Spirituality

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you will live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know you must do.

Purpose
Responsibility

Michael Meade

The role of a fully realized human being is to arrive at the door of death having become oneself.

Outcomes
Purpose

Tagore

The river would never reach the sea were it not hemmed in by its banks.

Perspective
Success

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