“Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.”

“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.”

“F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real”

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.”

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.”

“The only people without problems are those in cemeteries”

“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more”

“I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.”

“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.”

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”

“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”

“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”

“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”

“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”

“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love”

“You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

“I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.”

“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.”

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.”

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance”

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first”

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Help people who need it, not people who want it.”

Your imperfections are what make you perfect”

Settling is giving up, don't ever settle”

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”