Almost Magical Quotations

Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.Deepak ChopraPhysician, author, philosopher · Born 1946

Each of us has a purpose on the planet and the event of your birth is not an accident.Fred Alan WolfTheoretical Physicist · Born 1934

The days are long, but the years are short.Gretchen RubinAuthor and former attorney · Born unknown

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. It can never come back.Harvey B. MackayBusinessman and columnist · Born 1932

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard ShawIrish playwright · 1856–1950

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.Denis WaitleyMotivational speaker and author · Born 1933

When you want something, all of the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.Paulo CoelhoBrazilian novelist · Born 1947

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.Mark Victor HansenMotivational speaker and author · Born 1948

Keep living, keep living, keep living!Logan OlsonCreator of Logan Magazine for youth with disabilities, survivor of traumatic brain injury · Born 1984

I can’t change it. That was God’s plan for my life and I’m going to go with it.Bethany HamiltonAmerican surfer, survivor of a shark attack · Born 1990

The only time you ever have is this moment. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.Marianne WilliamsonSpiritual activist and author · Born 1952

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.Wayne DyerSelf-help author and lecturer · Born 1940

Remember, it’s your own body, your own brain. You’re not a victim of the universe. You are the universe.Richard BandlerCo-creator of NLP psychology · Born 1950

All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.Earl NightingaleDean of personal development · 1921–1989

Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, “Include me.”Stuart WildeMetaphysics author · Born 1946

When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves.Victor FranklHolocaust survivor and neurologist · 1905–1997

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.Author unknown

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.W. Clement StoneBusinessman and self-help author · 1902–2002

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We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.Shakti GawainPersonal development author · Born 1948

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.Og MandinoAuthor · 1891–1951

Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.Jim CollinsBusinessman and author · Born 1958

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.Marci ShimoffSelf-improvement author · Born unknown

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.Russell ConwellFounder of Temple University · 1843–1925

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.BuddhaSpiritual teacher in India · 563 BCE–483 BCE

We usually get what we anticipate.Claude M. BristolAuthor · 1923–1996

You cannot entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.Charles Francis HaanelNew thought author · 1866–1949

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.M. Scott PeckPsychiatrist · 1936–2005

If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.Robert CollierSelf-help and metaphysical author · 1885–1950

Every thought we think is creating our future.Louise HayMotivational author · Born 1928

There is no one who is totally evil to the core. The fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.Masaru EmotoJapanese author · Born 1943

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.Martin E.P. SeligmanPsychologist and self-help author · Born 1942

Abraham Lincoln found that something when a lad. It warmed the cold floor on which he lay and studied. It added light to the flickering glow of the wood fire that he might see to read. It spurred him on, and on, and on.William W. WoodbridgeSelf-improvement author · Born unknown

What you resist persists.Carl JungSwiss psychiatrist · 1875–1961

Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed.Joseph CampbellAmerican mythologist · 1904–1987

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Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.Albert SchweitzerPhysician and philosopher · 1875–1965

Time and money spent in helping people do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.Henry FordAmerican industrialist · 1863–1947

Deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.Zlata FilipovićAuthor and humanitarian · Born 1980

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings.Pearl S. BuckPulitzer-prize winning author · 1892–1973

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.Princess DianaPrincess of Wales · 1961–1997

The true benefit of kindness is being kind. Perhaps more than any other factor, kindness gives meaning and value to our life.Piero FerrucciPsychotherapist and author · Born unknown

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican philosopher · 1803–1882

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.Albert EllisAmerican Psychologist · 1913–2007

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.Anne FrankHolocaust victim and author · 1929–1945

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring.Leo BuscagliaAuthor and motivational speaker · 1924–1998

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.Mother TeresaHumanitarian and missionary · 1910–1997

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.Martin Luther King, Jr.Civil Rights activist · 1929–1968

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert EinsteinTheoretical physicist · 1879–1955

Live out of your imagination, not your history.Steven CoveySelf-improvement author · Born 1932

You are, indeed, much brighter than you think — far more so, in fact, than you have ever imagined!Win WengerPioneer in creativity · Born unknown

The first step is to be absolutely clear about what you want.John AssarafAuthor and business coach · Born 1961

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.Rainer Maria RilkeBohemian-Austrian poet · 1875–1926

Change your thoughts and you change your world.Norman Vincent PealePreacher and author · 1898–1993

Gee, I control my own environment and my mind has controlled my existence and my thinking.Vic ConantPersonal development coach · Born unknown

Your mind is your greatest weapon.David J. LiebermanPsychologist and author · Born unknown

Remember, you are what you think.Helene HadsellAuthor and lecturer · Born unknown

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be.Brian TracyAuthor and motivational speaker · Born 1944

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.Pablo PicassoSpanish painter · 1881–1973

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.Edgar Allan PoeAmerican author and poet · 1809–1849

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Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing.Chuck YeagerFirst pilot to break the sound barrier · Born 1923

I don’t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.Stan LeeCo-created Spider-Man and X-Men · Born 1922

There is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. You are a magnificent creator.Esther HicksInspirational speaker and author · Born unknown

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.Thomas EdisonInventor and scientist · 1847–1931

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.Abraham Harold MaslowPsychologist and author · 1908–1970

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.William GlasserAmerican psychiatrist · Born 1925

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.James AllenPhilosophical writer · 1864–1912

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.Steven PressfieldNovelist · Born 1943

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.Rollo MayExistential psychologist · 1909–1994

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.Malcolm GladwellAuthor and sociologist · Born 1963

You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity.T. Harv EkerMotivational speaker and author · Born unknown

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned.P. T. BarnumAmerican showman and businessman · 1810–1891

Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.Don Miguel RuizNew age spiritualist · Born 1952

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.Jerry WestFormer NBA player · Born 1938

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.Buckminster FullerInventor and futurist · 1895–1983

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives — most of the things that are interesting, important, are the results of creativity.Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiPsychologist and author · Born 1934

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all.Mohandas GandhiSpiritual leader · 1869–1948

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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.Henry David ThoreauAuthor and philosopher · 1817–1862

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.Lewis CarrollAuthor · 1832–1898

It isn’t sufficient just to want — you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd U.S. President · 1882–1945

A good plan executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.George S. ClasonBusinessman and author · 1875–1957

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.Dale CarnegieSelf-improvement author · 1888–1955

Personal success is achieved when you feel really good about your past, present, and future.John GrayRelationship counselor and author · Born 1951

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.Anthony RobbinsAuthor and motivational speaker · Born 1960

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around.Daniel GolemanAuthor and psychologist · Born 1946

If we had to overcome every possible objection before we got started, then nothing — absolutely nothing — would ever get accomplished.Richard CarlsonPsychotherapist and author · 1961–2006

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.Les BrownMotivational speaker · Born 1945

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! 98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.Dr. SeussChildren’s author and cartoonist · 1904–1991

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.Napoleon HillStarted the personal success movement · 1883–1970

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My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.Abraham Lincoln16th U.S. President · 1809–1865

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Winston ChurchillFormer U.K. Prime Minister · 1874–1965

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.Oprah WinfreyTalk show host and philanthropist · Born 1954

For virtually everything that you want to do there are books and courses on how to do it.Jack CanfieldMotivational speaker and author · Born 1944

The person who won’t read has no advantage over the person who can’t read.Mark TwainAmerican author · 1835–1910

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to be about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success.Brian TracySelf-help author · Born 1944

The book you don’t read won’t help.Jim RohnMotivational speaker and author · 1930–2009

Reading is a source of potency. Become a walking encyclopedia of answers for anyone who has questions.Tim SandersAuthor & former executive at Yahoo · Born unknown

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island — and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.Walt DisneyAnimator and entertainer · 1901–1966

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.Laura BushFormer First Lady of the U.S. · Born 1946

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.Harry S. Truman33rd President of the United States · 1884–1972

You are the same today you’ll be in five years except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read.Charlie “Tremendous” JonesMotivational speaker · Born unknown

You can finish school, and even make it easy, but you never finish your education, it is seldom easy.Zig ZiglarSalesman and motivational speaker · Born 1926

Wisdom is hidden in books. You’ve got to become an avid reader in order to discover all the secrets in books. Read, read, read if you want to succeed. Start today.Danny Pettry IIAuthor · Born 1980

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