Hilda Oti 

“It’s always darkest before the dawn.” – Unknown

 

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” –Brian Tracy

 

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

 

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

 

“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”– J. Gitomer

 

“Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn vos Savant

 

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.” – Buddha

 

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

 

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.” – Voltaire

 

“If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali

 

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin

 

 

 “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

 

“Take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather

 

“If you’re only willing to do what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.” – T. Harv Eker

 

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” – Mark Twain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

 

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” – Brene Brown

 

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

 

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

 

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” – Henry Ford

 

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill

 

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler

 

“No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things”. Demi Lovato

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door”. Marla Gibbs

 

“Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive”. Leah LaBelle

 

“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up”. Allen Klein

 

“Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come”. Henri Nouwen

 

“You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination”. Ralph Marston

 

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”. Lyndon B. Johnson

 

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing”. Elbert Hubbard

 

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination”. Nelson Mandela

 

“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it’. Michael Jordan

 

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”. Jim Rohn

 

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far”. Swami Vivekananda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps”. Confucius

 

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity”. Calvin Coolidge

 

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful”. John Wooden

 

“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give”. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it”. Rabindranath Tagore

 

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you”. John Wooden

 

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”       W. Clement Stone

 

“Honesty is the best policy”. Benjamin Franklin

 

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once”. Albert Einstein

 

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking”. Albert Einstein

 

“The past has no power over the present moment.” Eckhart Tolle

 

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” Lemony Snicket

 

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”  Aldous Huxley

 

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”  William Faulkner

 

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” Jim Morrison

 

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”  Michelle Hodkin

 

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.” Lemony Snicket

 

“Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.” Cassandra Clare

 

“Life's as kind as you let it be.” Charles Bukowski

 

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty”. Albert Einstein

 

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” Albert Einstein

 

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual”. Albert Einstein

 

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”. Albert Einstein

 

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts”. Albert Einstein

 

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive”. Albert Einstein

 

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science”. Albert Einstein

 

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them”. Albert Einstein

 

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”. Albert Einstein

 

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”. Albert Einstein

 

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person”.                   Albert Einstein

 

“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” –Carlton Fisk

 

“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller

 

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude” – Maya Angelou

 

“If you don’t build your dream. Someone will hire you to help build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins 

 

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

 

 “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

 

“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.” – Napoleon Hill

 

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

 

“You never stop earning when you do what you love.” – Asha Tyson

 

“Communication–the human connection–is the key to personal and career success.” – Paul J. Meyer

 

“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.” – Benjamin F. Fairless

 

 “The only person you are destined  to become is the person you decide to be.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson