Quotes on Optimism

Positive Attitude

"An optimist sees the glass half full while a pessimist sees the glass as half empty.”
- Anonymous

"When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities."
- Zig Ziglar

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill

"Real optimism is aware of problems but recognises the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile."
- William Arthur Ward

"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."
- William Arthur Ward

"Few things in this world are more powerful than A Positive Push, A Smile, A Word of Optimism, and Hope."
- Rich DeVos

"Positivity is a choice. Is the glass half empty or half full? YOU get to make the call."
- Anonymous


用乐观赶走悲观，
用积极取代消极，
用自信化解自卑，
慢慢你就会建立正确的思想。
－ 林庆昭作品“没有掉下来，就不曾攀登过”

乐观的人，永远有路可走。
－ 何权峰作品“生命发牌 机会出牌”

Quotes on Growth

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"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves… Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
- Viktor Frankl

"Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth."
- Jim Rohn

“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”
- Anthony Robbins

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."
- Abraham Maslow

"Don't GO through life, GROW through life."
- Eric Butterworth

"If we are growing, we are always going to be out of our comfort zone."
- John C. Maxwell

"Without the rain, flowers don't grow. Without challenges, neither do you."
- John Di Lemme

Quotes on Simplicity

Timeless Treasures

"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
- Lao Tzu

"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves."
- Edwin Way Teale

"Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language,
and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things,
and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."
- Elise Boulding

Quotes on Family

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
- Eva Burrows

"Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds.
Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends."
- Anonymous

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
- Virginia Satir

"The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the "love account."
- Zig Ziglar

败犬女王 － 寻找幸福

單無雙要出嫁了。。。 阿母虽然很希望女儿可以嫁出去,却更希望女儿嫁的人是自己所爱的,并能得到最终的幸福。。。

"结婚证书它只是可以证明你有另外一伴,但是它不能保证你下半辈子会是快乐的"

"婚姻不是绑住幸福的工具。。。"

"结婚不是结局,反而是考验的开始"

Quotes on Work

Give It All You've Got
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
- William J. Bennett

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."
- Steve Jobs

"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves."
- Brian Tracy

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard

"People who never do any more than they get paid for,
never get paid for any more than they do."
- Elbert Hubbard

"You got to like your work.
You have got to like what you are doing,
you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it..
because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?"
- Colonel Sanders

"Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow because of what you have done today?"
- William Arthur Ward

Quotes on The Future

Sunbeams Radiating Through Clouds, Paro, Bhutan

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker

"Put your future in good hands - your own."
- Anonymous

"I'm an optimist.
I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
And I also believe I have a role in that.
The great thing about human beings, myself in particular,
is that I can change. I can do better.
If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times."
- Jeffrey Immelt

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day."
- Gloria Steinem

"My will shall shape the future.
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze.
My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."
- Elaine Maxwell

Quotes on Worrying

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"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
- Leo Buscaglia

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control?
The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
- Wayne Dyer

"Clearly understand, there isn't any situation that isn't made worse by worry.
Worry never solves anything.
Worry never prevents anything.
Worry never heals anything.
Worry serves only one purpose... it makes matters worse."
- Bob Proctor

"The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise.
If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers.
Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict."
- Daniel Goleman

Quotes on Smiles

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."
- Anonymous

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
- Phyllis Diller

"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks."
- Charles Gordy

"The shortest distance between two people is a smile."
- Anonymous

"A smile costs nothing but gives much.
It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give.
It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and
none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it.
Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,
for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.
Some people are too tired to give you a smile.
Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give."
- Anonymous

Quotes on Living in the Present

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"Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future.
It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift."
- Oprah Winfrey

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it.
But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today,
and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."
- John Newton

"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."
- Ralph W. Sockman

"There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday."
- Robert Nathan

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
- Anonymous

"Nothing is worth more than this day."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotes on Purpose of Life

The Purpose Of Life- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
- Woodrow Wilson

"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives.
They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction.
The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term;
it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals,
that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment."
- Anthony Robbins

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes on Life

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"Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?"
- Ivana Trump

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
- Albert Einstein

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that
great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."
- Michael E. Gerber

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."
- Lillian Dickson

"We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything."
- Charles Swindoll

"Life is the sum of all your choices."
- Albert Camus

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away."
- Anonymous

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Norman MacEwen

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."
- Anonymous

“人活着，不是期待人生完全没有悲苦，
而是要期待自己能从悲苦中成长、感悟，
那么悲苦就不再是悲苦了。
就象吃苦瓜一样，不必去奢求苦瓜会变甜瓜，
而是去了解并超越苦瓜的苦，品尝出苦涩滋味后的甘甜。”
－ 何权峰 “哈哈笑过苦日子”

“每个人都在写自己的故事，
每个人都有机会改变故事的情节，填补以及丰富你的生命，
甚至决定整个故事的结局。”
－ 何权峰 “命运发牌 机会出牌”

Quotes on Success

Success
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
- E.M. Gray

"The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success.
The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not.
Success is tons of discipline."
- Anonymous

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."
- Vince Lombardi

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
- Napoleon Hill

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
- Booker T. Washington

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one's self;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
- Danny Thomas

Quotes on Achievement

Achievement: Climber
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
- Edmund Hillary

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill

"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
- Theodore I. Rubin

Quotes on Enthusiasm

Motivation
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
- Bo Bennett

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to excite your ideas."
- Henry Tor

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality.
Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The worst bankrupt is the man who has lost his enthusiasm.
Let a man lose everything in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success."
- H.W. Arnold

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
- Charles Kingsley

Quotes on Perseverance

Perseverance
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
- Josh Billings

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."
- H. Ross Perot

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
- William Feather

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
- Jacob A. Riis

"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."
- Anonymous

Quotes on Learning

Knowledge
"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and
what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning."
- Richard Bach

"If you accept failure as an opportunity to learn, it will change your whole perspective. Some people allow failures to stop them form ever attempting anything new. Rather than learn and move on, these people get stuck forever."
- Catherine Pulsifer

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."
- Carol Burnett

"Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning."
- Gary Ryan Blair

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
- Henry Ford

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back."
- Chinese Proverb

Quotes on Failure

Try, Try Again!- American Proverb
"What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
- Marilyn vos Savant

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
- John Christian Bovee

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
- Dr. Denis Waitley

"We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
It is a powerful obstacle to growth.
It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling.
If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure — all your life."
- John W. Gardner

"Remember the two benefits of failure.
First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work;
and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
- Roger von Oech

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
- Scott Adams

Quotes on Mistake

Mistakes - Esther Dyson
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
- Meister Eckhart

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

"People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress."
- Dale Turner

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
- Henry C. Link

"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
- Henry S. Haskins

"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."
- Dale Turner

"Mistakes are stepping stones to success."
- Charles E. Popplestone

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success;
we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do;
and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery."
- Samuel Smiles

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
- John Powell

Quotes on Discipline

Discipline
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."
- Jim Rohn

"Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!"
- Zig Ziglar

“Discipline itself brings pain, but the pain is temporary while the growth is permanent.”
- John Leddo

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."
- Harry S. Truman

"Discipline is remembering what you want."
- David Campbell