Plan for the future because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life. -- Mark TwainOur destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. -- Orison S. MardenWatch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for they become your destiny.
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
It's choice - not chance that determines your destiny. -- Jean Nidetch
The past is like a river flowing out of sight; the future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight. -- Anna Hoxie
Control your destiny or somebody else will. -- Jack WelchThere are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
-- John Adams
Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny. -- Michael J. MccarthyThe one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny. -- control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny. -- Paul G. Thomas
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might -- Alfred A. Montapert
Life is like riding a bicycle, you don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling -- Claude Pepper
Life is "trying things to see if they work."--Ray Bradbury
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it--Plutarch
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
--Alfred D. Souza
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver
I've learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
--Author Unknown
Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
-- Author Unknown
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
--Dennis Prager
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
--Dale Carnegie
Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
--Dr. Wayne Dyer
Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect, it means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
--Unknown Author
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
--Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor