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There are two days in the year that we cannot do anything: yesterday and tomorrow.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Focus & Distraction
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Purpose
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Discipline
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Discipline
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Starting Over
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
On Discipline
Peace begins with a smile.
— Mother Teresa
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
— Mother Teresa
On Purpose
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
— Mother Teresa
On Purpose
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
— Mother Teresa
On Purpose
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
— Henry Ford
On Discipline
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
— Henry Ford
On the Working Life
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
— Henry Ford
On Focus & Distraction
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
— Oprah Winfrey
On the Working Life
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
— Oprah Winfrey
On Purpose
You become what you believe. Not what you wish or want but what you truly believe.
— Oprah Winfrey
On Confidence
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
— Oprah Winfrey
On Discipline
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all…
— Herbert Bayard Swope
On the Working Life
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say an…
— Robert Frost
On Focus & Distraction
Freedom lies in being bold.
— Robert Frost
On Confidence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
On Purpose
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
— Hillel the Elder
On Discipline
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
— James Baldwin
On Purpose
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
— James Baldwin
On Starting Over
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
— James Baldwin
On Confidence
I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
— Maya Angelou
On the Working Life
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
— Maya Angelou
On Confidence
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
— Maya Angelou
On Focus & Distraction
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
— Alice Walker
On Confidence
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
— Alice Walker
On Confidence