Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

~ Plato

Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Eileen Caddy

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.

~ Eileen Caddy

Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. 

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

~ Winston Churchill

Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

Mark Victor Hansen

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

~ Mark Victor Hansen

Epictetus

He is a wise man who does not grieve

for the things which he has not,

but rejoices for those which he has.

~ Epictetus

Katrina Kaif

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today. 

~Katrina Kaif

Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.

Your mind will seek to develop the pictu

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

~

Norman Vincent Peale

Anton Chekhov

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. 

~Anton Chekhov

Denis Waitley

Don't dwell on what went wrong.

Instead, focus on what to do next.

Spend your energies on moving forward

 toward finding the answer.

~Denis Waitley

Buddha

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

~Buddha

Kenneth Branagh

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

~ Kenneth Branagh

Groucho Marx

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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

Howard Thurman

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

~Howard Thurman

Helen Keller

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,

and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to

propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

- Helen Keller

Thich Nhat Hanh

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Helen Keller

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. 

~Helen Keller

Henry Kissinger

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. 

~Henry Kissinger