Uplifting Quotes
Intention
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."
- Napoleon Hill
"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
"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert Schuller
Self-image
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
- Anthony De Mello
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
- Shakti Gawain
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." - Louise Hay
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Attributed to several people
Unlimited thinking
"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can." - Henry Ford
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
"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
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
- Orison Swett Marden
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
- Ayrton Senna (Formula One World Champion 1988,1990,1991)
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