CRITICISM

"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business." 

~ Norman Vincent Peale 

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." 

~ Frank Howard Clark 

"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing and be nothing."   

~ Elbert Hubbard 

"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." 

~ Rubel Shelly

"When you are not attached to praise or criticism, an interesting freedom is yours." 

Kute Blackson 

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” 

― Louise L. Hay 

“Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.” 

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.” 

"People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.” 

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. 

Tena Desae 

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. 

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. 

Johannes Kepler

Optimism/Success

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

~ Anthony Robbins 

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing." 

~ Abraham-Hicks 

"Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con." 

~ Carolyn Hax 

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence." 

~ Helen Keller 

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream." 

~ Lao Tzu 

"In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing." 

~ Abraham-Hicks 

“Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day! 

Equality/Human Rights

If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if your a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. 

-Gandhi-

"Home is the place where boys and girls first earn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others."

~ Sidonie Gruenberg 

" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself ."

Robert Green Ingersoll 

"Respect for the rights of others means peace." 

~ Benito Juarez

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 

~ Thomas Jefferson 

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." 

Benjamin Franklin 

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life." 

Bob Marley 

Privacy is the foundation of all other rights. Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like arguing that you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. 

Edward Snowden 

Human rights and mutual respect are first learned at home and at school - though often they are instead trampled by dogmatic and intolerant parents and teachers, suppressive rules and bullying. And then that carries into the workplace and society. 

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority... It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation - and their ideas from suppression - at the hand of an intolerant society." 

~ John Stevens (U.S. Supreme Court Justice) 

"There can never be peace in a world where one man has his belly full and another man is starving." 

Pancho Villa 

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." 

~ M. Scott Peck

Life's Challenges

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” 

― Randy Pausch

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” 

“It is in darkness that you find the light; it is in storm that you find peace; it is in sorrow that you find joy because life is a paradox and a polarity.” 

~ S. Birch

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.” 

~ Marcus Aurelius 

“Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.”

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." 

~ Pema Chödrön

“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. If follows hard work. It doesn't come before.” 

~ Shelby Steele 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” 

~ Martin Luther King 

Difficult road often lead to beautiful destinations.

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” 

Pauli Hellhole

“Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.” 

― Steve Maraboli

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

~ Helen Keller

“Difficulties are things that show a person who they are.” 

~ Epictetus

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.” 

― Steve Maraboli

“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.” 

― Dalai Lama XIV

Relationship Quotes

"I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued. When they can give and receive without judgment. And when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. Connection is why we're here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering."

~ Brené Brown

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love." 

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” 

― Steve Maraboli

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” 

― Elizabeth Gilbert

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” 

― Tim Robbins

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.” 

― Nick Hornby

“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.” 

― Nicholas Sparks,

Choices and Consequences

“Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.” 

― J.E.B. Spredemann 

“Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.” 

― Toni Sorenson 

“If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality.” 

José Saramago 

“What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.” 

“Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.” 

“Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.” 

― Craig D. Lounsbrough 

“There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.” 

― Anne Holm 

“We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.” 

― Craig D. Lounsbrough 

“For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!” 

― Kemi Sogunle 

“The instant that you forget about the consequences of your actions on other people, is the moment that you are about to lose your humanity. We all are related, no matter, what skin color, sexual orientation, gender or religion we hold. We all like rosary beads. Our existence is depended to the rest, if one bead falls apart, the rest of us will do too. Our humanity defines by how we accept, respect and support each other, otherwise we are simply a bunch of animals acting according to our instinct and killing one another to survive.”   

― Kambiz Shabankare 

“You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.” 

― Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Be Yourself

Seek not to be accepted, seek to be you and accept yourself for who you really are.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." 

~ Oscar Wilde 

"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence." 

~ Barbara Cook 

This is my life, My Story, My Book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make. " 

Best to live your life based on what you truly want, instead of conforming to the expectations of others or trying to impress them. Then you will be inspired and most likely achieve both success and happiness." 

I do what I do because we've only got one life to live and I want to LIVE. I want to thrive. I don't want ever to look back and think. I did an OKAY job with my life, I survived.. SURVIVED?!!! No! I WANNA LIVE! I savor the PAIN, CHALLENGES and STRUGGLES. I embrace the difficulty knowing that through pain and sacrifices, I am becoming the best I can be.. I feel strong, capable. I feel like I can take any challenge and respond effectively.I feel that totally and utterly in control of my LIFE, My DESTINY. 

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. 

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.U don't always have to defend yourself with words. SILENCE sometimes give clue to other people that u have more import bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." 

Joseph Sugarman 

Everyone takes their own journey through life, so don't apologize if you feel like going you own way today. No one else can truly understand what you are experiencing, so no one else has the right to tell you where to go next. When those 'in the know' offer you unsolicited advice today, be polite and listen. But don't feel obligated to follow it. They have your best interests at heart, but in the end their thoughts are based on their own goals -- not yours. You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now. 

Joan Baez 

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. 

Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.LIFE has so many great options but you don't have to pick always with what seems best.......... just pick whatever makes you really happy. 

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” 

― Marilyn Monroe 

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. 

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. 

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. 

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. 

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. 

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself. 

Lucas Black 

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” 

― May Sarton 

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect. 

Mariano Rivera 

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. 

Pelzer 

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular. 

Wiz Khalifa 

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself. 

Hope Solo 

" Be careful who you pretend to be, you might forget who you really are. 

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

Life Quotes

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming.It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make, it's about the things you choose to say - today.It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading. 

Walter Anderson 

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” 

― Robert Frost 

Never Regret Anything that has happen in your life – it cannot be changed – undone or forgotten so take it as a lesson – learned and move on. 

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.” 

David Beckham 

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are things that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got. 

David Millibar 

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. 

Bill Murray 

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets. 

Life’s biggest mistakes are life’s greatest opportunities. Either you learn from your mistakes and use that as stepping stones to success or you keep making the same mistakes…and nothing improves. 

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. 

Author: Diego Marchi 

The life you live is more important than the words you speak. 

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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. 

Steve Jobs 

Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you’ve always imagined. 

Sometimes life comes at you fast. The least you should know is that you can do anything if you try, and that nothing can stop you. You are what you say you are, and no one can take that away from you. Life is that valuable thing that is unique to you. No one can change it; just you. And endure till the end! The battle is not done till all men are down. 

LIFE IS A GIFT, MAKE THE MOST OF IT. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is fragile, hold it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. 

“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself. 

What comes easy wont last long, and what last long wont come easy. 

" Life is never about the people who act true in front of you.... it is always about the people who remain true behind your back".