"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein
Some of these quotations will make you think and all of them will benefit you. There are lessons to be learned in each one. Quotations are a tool to improve yourself. I hope you enjoy these quotations and, most of all, that you are able to profit from them.
- Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. - John Milton
- We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell
- Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions. It is governed by your mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie
- Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you. - Anonymous
- In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
- Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus
- Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use. - Ruth Gordon
- The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton
- Think not about what you want but about what you can do without. - Tom Hodginson
- Recognition is the greatest motivator. - Gerard C. Eakedale
- How do I change?
- If I feel depressed, I will sing.
- If I feel sad, I will laugh.
- If I feel ill, I will double my labor.
- If I feel fear, I will plunge ahead.
- If I feel inferior. I will wear new garments.
- If I feel uncertain, I will raise my voice.
- If I feel poverty, I will think of wealth to come.
- If I feel incompetent, I will think of past success.
- If I feel insignificant, I will remember my goals.
- Today I will be the master of my emotions. ... Og Mandino
- The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
- Nobody can be unhappy in the here and now. You can think about yesterday and you become unhappy. You can think about tomorrow and you become unhappy. But right this moment - can you be unhappy right now? - Osh
- Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Gustav Jung
- Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent... Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. - Sydney Smith
- Insist on yourself. Never imitate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. - Wayne W. Dyer
- To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
- Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others. - Leib Lazarow
- None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. - Scott Sorrell
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out 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