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".

Wisdom Quotes

" A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart." 

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” 

― Eleanor Roosevelt 

I met a weird man who was filled with negative judgment for others. Even though he is highly successful. He seems to have an inferiority complex, constantly putting others down as if to make himself seem superior. 

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do. 

– Chris Rock 

"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." 

~ Morpheus 

The weak always use destructive weapons against the strong but the only weapon of the strong is the truth. 

Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers. But it comes when you are ready to face all the questions. 

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” 

Gautama Buddha 

“...choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is.” 

― Angelo Tsanatelis 

Being scared is a fact of life. Even the bravest people in the world are scared. What separates the brave ones from the rest is that they don’t let their fears turn into excuses. 

Thank you to every person who has ever told me I can’t. You are just another reason I will. 

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” 

―Gautama Buddha 

Everything is easier said than done. 

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." 

~ William Shakespeare 

Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. 

― Steve Maraboli 

“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”  

― Bayard Taylor 

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. 

“ Life is short.. So break d rules! 

Forgive quickly! 

Kiss slowly! 

Love truly! 

Laugh uncontrollably! 

Never regret anything that made u smile!!! 

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. 

" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.” 

― Alexandre Dumas 

“Many grow old with ages,but some attains age with wisdom.” 

― Anuj Somany 

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge." 

Benjamin Disraeli 

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. 

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” 

― John Green 

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must. But take that step. 

Be selective in your battle because sometimes peace is better than being right. 

What people often say is really a reflection of who they are.

Giving Up Quotes

Never let a stumble be the end of your journey.

“Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.” 

― Chris Bradford, 

“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing." 

― Jim Rohn 

“There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence… being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. It goes against kindness.” 

“The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.” 

― Steven Redhead, The Solution 

“There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." 

― Krissi Dallas 

But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.” 

― Richelle E. Goodrich 

“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.” 

― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden 

“When it seems like giving up, then it seems like rising up". 

― Ernest Agyeman Yeboah 

“Giving up doesn't define you, but how you stand in every choice and fight in every decision you've made reflects your character.” 

―Carl Lomer Abia 

It doesn't matter where you've been, as long as you come back strong...

Responsibility Quotes

“I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.” 

-Alexandra Lapland

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt 

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. 

Abraham Lincoln 

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.  

Josiah Gilbert Holland 

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. 

Martin Luther 

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. 

Jim Rohn 

Faced with a crisis, the man of falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. 

Charles de Gaulle 

"The price of greatness is responsibility." 

— Winston Churchill 

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. 

-Malcolm Forbes 

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. 

Max DePree 

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. 

Dennis Watley 

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility. 

Jim Rohn 

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. 

Denis Waitley 

"I can't always control my thoughts but I can choose how I respond to them." 

~ David Cuschieri

Hypocrisy Quotes

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. 

Charles Spurgeon 

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. 

~William Shakespeare 

“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. 

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. 

~Author Unknown 

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. 

~George Groddeck 

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong. 

-Author Unknown 

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. 

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. 

Bernard Shaw 

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. 

~Author Unknown 

The very nature of self-righteousness is to self and condemn others. In so doing people play God, because they judge themselves on the basis of their own standards and wisdom. 

Self-righteousness is the worst of sins because it is unbelief. It trusts in self rather than God. It trusts in self to determine what is right and wrong and to determine who does what is right or wrong. Self-righteousness claims to be both lawgiver and judge, prerogatives that belong only to the Lord. 

John MacArthur 

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. 

What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. 

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. 

~Jacob M. Braude 

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. 

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. 

Sometimes the nicest people are you meet are covered in tattoos and sometimes the most judgemental people you meet , go to church on Sundays. 

I've known quite a few people like this. They can't come right out and say anything either, so they ever so subtly step on your toes with snide remarks and insults, and then when you call them out on it, they feign innocence/hurt feelings and make you look like a bad guy to those ignorant enough to believe them. The best thing I ever did, was walk away from it.` 

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. 

~Thomas Fuller 

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Crossroad Quotes

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. 

Matthew Perry

There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a road map. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back. 

Lucas Scott

“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely touristic.”. 

Taylor Swift

“We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It’s when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life.” . 

Anthony Liccione 

“When you feel life at a crossroads,you need higher perspective view. 

― Toba Beta

“Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.” 

― Shannon L. Alder

“Life presents us with moments of decision—crossroads where we either choose a new direction and move on, or cling to what we already have and be miserable 

― Mary Buchan 

“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.” 

Anthony Robbins 

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.”

Justina Chan

Loyalty Quotes

Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned. You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day- by- day.
Jeffrey Gitomer

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.

A woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything!

Loyalty is Royalty. The people who want to stay in your life will always find a way. You shouldn't have to fight for a spot in someone's life. Never force someone to make a space in their life for you, because if they truly care about you, they will create one for you.

Don't let your loyalty become slavery. If they don't appreciate what you bring to the table, let them eat alone.

Blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family.

A successful life is not an easy life. It is built on strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty and integrity.
– Grant D. Searchfield

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
– Norman Mattoon Thomas

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain

Loyalty isn't grey. It's black and white. You're either loyal completely, or not loyal at all.

True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea,and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G. K. Chesterton

Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not.
General Colin Powell

Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.
Maurice R. Franks

I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel Goldwyn

"There is something wrong with your character if opportunity controls your loyalty."

" Loyalty, dignity, morals a good heart and a good character."

If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family.

Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.
Eric Felten

Don't let your loyalty become slavery. If they don't appreciate what you bring to the table, let them eat alone.
Anonymous

Loyalty A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.
Pascal Mercier

Attitude Quotes

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” 

- Charles R. Swindoll

" You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make your attitude to fit into those situations ". 

- Zig Ziglar

“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.” 

Roy T. Bennett

“No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.” 

C. JoyBell

“You Are the Master of Your Attitude 

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”

― Rick Warren 

It is good people who make good places.” 

― Anna Sewell

“Swearing doesn't make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.” 

― Shannon L. Alde

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

― Brian Tracy

We cannot change the past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play the one string we have, and that is our attitude. 

“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” 

Yogi Bhajan

“You can see real attitude of man when he's terrified."

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what other people think or say or do. It is more than appearance, edginess, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” 

― Martha Washington 

You chose You chose to give away your love. 

You chose to have a broken heart. 

You chose to give up. 

You chose to move on. 

You chose to react. 

You chose to feel insecure. 

You chose to feel anger. 

You chose to fight back. 

You chose to ignore advice. 

You chose to look the other way. 

You chose to not listen.

You chose to be stuck in the past. 

You chose your perspective. 

You chose to blame. 

You chose to be right. 

You chose your pride. 

You chose your games. 

You chose your ego. 

You chose your paranoia. 

You chose to compete. 

You chose your enemies. 

You chose your consequences. 

However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:

Choose to let go.

Choose dignity. 

Choose to forgive yourself. 

Choose to forgive others. Choose to see your value.

Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.

Choose to make us proud.”

― Shannon L. Alder

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” 

― Lou Holtz

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” 

― Dale Carnegie

The best people possess a feeling for beauty.The courage to take risks. The discipline to tell the truth.The capacity for sacrifice. Ironically their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed...

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

Intuition Quotes/Sayings

Being intuitive means that you are able to tap into subconscious information in order to receive guidance about your everyday life. Intuition can be used to receive guidance about your own life (personal intuition) or to help other people (professional intuition). 

"Our intuitive thinking process sends us nuggets of wisdom that we ignore in favor of adding all kinds of non-essential thoughts to the mix, causing errors in our judgment." 

~ Angela Artemis 

A natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence . 

What is intuition?' would be to say that it's the ability to process information, not just information in the environment, but also information available internally from past experiences and knowledge, that allows you to make great decisions. 

Quick and ready insight. 

"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know." 

" Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." 

-Doe Zantamata 

"There's a voice that doesn't use words. Listen." 

~ Rumi 

Our inner knowing is expressed through intuition, and that's with feelings and images, which the mind then puts into words if we give it the opportunity to do so. In the silence of your inner space you hear the truth and know the solutions.