1. Control your destiny or somebody will. -Jack Welsh

2. Rule your mind or it will rule you. -Horace

3. He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king. -John Milton

4. The control centre of your life is your attitude. -Anonymous

5. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. -William Henley

6. He who angers you conquers you. -Elizabeth Kenny

7. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. -Tao Te Ching

8. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control–these three alone lead life to sovereign power. -Alfred Tennyson

9. Speak when you are angry and you will make best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce

10. You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. -A. J. Kitt

11. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. -Aristotle

12. You can’t always control the wind, but you can control your sails. -Anthony Robbins

13. In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you. -Deepak Chopra

14. Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. -James Russell Lowell

15. Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom’s root. -Robert Burns

16. When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. -W. Clement Stone

17. What man’s mind can create, man’s character can control. -Thomas Edison

18. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -Donald Laird

19. When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone. -George O’Neil

20. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. -Napoleon Hill

21. The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. -Charles Darwin

22. No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy–unless you let him. -Napoleon Hill

23. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you don’t you, life controls you. -Anthony Robbins

24. No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. -William Penn

25. Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. -Mohandas Gandhi

26. Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master. You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you. -Charles Popplestone

27. You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. -Chinese Proverb

28. Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control. -Anonymous

29. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. -Barbara De Angelis

30. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -Elie Wiesel

THERE YOU HAVE IT.  Which of these self-control quotes did you like the most?   Any you didn’t like?  If you have any quotes on this subject, please share them below in the Comments section.  Thanks!

Shawn B.

Hello Friends!  Here’s 19 quotes on friendship.

Hope you like them:

1. Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. -Swedish proverb

2. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough

3. Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

4. No road is long with good company. -Turkish Proverb

5. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with. -Wayne Dyer

6. To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. -Domenico Cieri Estrada

7. Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore

8. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich

9. A true friend is one who thinks you are good egg even if you are half-cracked. -Anonymous

10. Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. -Anonymous

11. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when memory fails. -Donna Roberts

12. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone it. -Grace Pulpit

13. It takes a long time to grow an old friend. -John Leonard

14. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -Anais Nin

15. Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. -Sare and Cate

16. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. -Plautus

17. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. -Barbara Kingsolver

18. In my friend, I find a second self. -Isabel Norton

19. Let us be grateful to people who makes us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust

Any of you have any quotes on friendship that you’d like to share?  Any of these jump out at you?  Please comment below.

Thanks,

Shawn

It’s such a pertinent subject.  You will find that as you read these, they are just as insightful and inspiring as if you had just read quotations on success.

There are 50 adversity quotes here, so grab a drink and get ready.

1. A wounded deer leaps the highest. -Emily Dickinson

2. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -English Proverb

3. A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. -Saadi

4. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal

5. Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. -Anonymous

6. Dust is protective coating for fine furniture. -Mario Burata

7. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. -Mark Twain

8. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to  them? -Rose F. Kennedy

9. Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. -Seneca

10. Adversity is the first path to truth. -Lord Byron

11. Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. -Sir Walter Scott

12. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity hides it. -Horace

13. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. -Les Brown

14. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. -Og Mandino

15. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -Henry Ward Beecher

16. You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. -Walt Schmidt

17. You have endured worse things; God will grant an end to these. -Virgil

18. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. -Mary Kay Ash

19. When walking through the ‘valley of shadows’, remember, a shadow is cast by a light. -H.K Barclay

20. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. -Maxwell Maltz

21. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche

22. What is to give light must endure the burning. -Viktor Frankl

23. When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars. -Lee Salk

24. When something like an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. -Rosalind Russell

25. We need tough days to drive us to our knees. -Anonymous

26. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -Henry Ward Beecher

27. We must free ourselves from the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. -Hanmer Parsons Grant

28. Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Robert Schuller

29. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. -Plutarch

30. Things were bad but now they are OK. -Harold Seymour

31. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. -Ann Landers

32. Trouble shared is troubled halved. -Dorothy Sayers

33. There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not crown bearers on earth. -Anonymous

34. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. -Og Mandino

35. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. -Richard Nixon

36. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. -Seneca

37. Stumbling is not falling. -Portuguese Proverb

38. Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. -Zig Ziglar

39. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. -Lou Holtz

40. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. -Goethe

41. The difference between the stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. -Anonymous

42. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. -Charles Schwab

43. The proof of gold is fire. -Benjamin Franklin

44. The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. -Anonymous

45. The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you. -Will Rogers

46. The reward of suffering is experience. -Aeschylus

47. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace

48. Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. -Anonymous

49. Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. -Pliny The Elder

50. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. -Gilbert Chesterton

What do you think of these?  Which ones are your favorites?  Please leave a comment in the section below.  

Hope you like them!

1) Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”. -Abraham Lincoln

2) The people who own the country ought to govern it. -John Kay

3) A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. -Theodore Roosevelt

4) There cannot be daily democracy without daily citizenship. -Ralph Nader

5) Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. -Archibald MacLeish

6) The lesson of history is clear: democracy always wins in the end. -Marjorie Kelly

7) It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. -Thomas Jefferson

8 ) I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. -Mohandas Gandhi

9) The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. -Edward Bellamy

10) In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, the will of the majority is supreme. -Aristotle

11) Democracy is not the law of the majority but protection of the minority. -Albert Camus

12) In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. -Norman Cousins

13) Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen’s possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society. -Fernando Cardoso

14) The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. - Chen Shui-bian

15) Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. -Woodrow Wilson

Since the 4th of July is over now, how did you spend your time?  What did you do to celebrate?

While we’re at it, do you have any democracy quotes of your own to share?  Which one’s above did you like the most?

As always, please share your answers to these questions in the comments section below.

Thanks!

Shawn

PS: did you know Canada’s birthday was on July 1st?  We just had Wednesday off work and we spent the day at a family member’s cottage in Bancroft (2.5 hours north east of Toronto).   Today, we were at our friend’s cottage up in Fenelon Falls which is about 2 hours NE of Toronto; awesome place.  I’m a bit sunburned.

PPS: any other country’s birthdays I’ve missed?

Here are 10 quotes from him.

1) Every choice you make has an end result.

2) A goal properly set is halfway reached.

3) Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

4) If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

5) You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

6) Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude not an outcome.

7) If you do not see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

8 ) You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

9) Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

10) What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Do you have any favorite Zig Ziglar quotes to share here?  Please share them in the comments section below.

Also, which of these are your favorite?  Please tell us.  I like #4, 8, and 9.

-Shawn

Endurance is a good subject that I haven’t covered yet.

Here are 10 quotes on that subject.  Remember to leave some comments at the bottom.

1) Perseverance is not a long race; it is many races one after another. -Walter Elliot

2) Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. -Edward Eggleston

3) A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough. -Ronald Reagan

4) To win without risk is to triumph without glory. -Pierre Corneille

5) Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Dr. Robert Schuller

6) Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit. -Conrad Hilton

7) Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate. -John C. Maxwell

8 ) One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another has it for 30 days, but is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. -Edward B. Butler

9) You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not falling down, but staying down. -Mary Pickford

10) One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote

I like #8 and #9 a lot.  How about you?

Which ones do you like?  Do you have any to share?  Please comment below.

Shawn

Here are 20 quotes on the topic of dreams.  Please make sure to leave a comment at the end of this to say which quotes you liked the most.

1) A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the stars before the rest of the world. -Oscar Wilde

2) A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask. -Fox Mulder

3) A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened. -The Talmud

4) A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. -Zadok Rabinwiltz

5) All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. -Orison Swett Marden

6) Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

7) Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -Buddha

8 ) Do not be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. -Belva Davis

9) Dreams are the touchstone of our character. -Henry David Thoreau

10) Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today. -James Dean

11) Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. -Phantom F. Harlock

12) Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live. -Lady Nancy Astor

13) Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. -Dale E. Turner

14) Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. -Anonymous

15) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

16) If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney

17) If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. -Jim Rohn

18) In dreams begins responsibility. -William Butler Yeats

19) It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -Robert H.

20) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

ALL DONE!  How did you like them?  Which ones of these jump out at you the most?  Please use the comments section below to let me/us know.  Thanks,

Shawn B.

Change.  Embrace change.  Change is good.  Since it’s so good, I have 15 quotes on change to share with you.  Enjoy!

1) You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi

2) One cannot manage change, one can only be ahead of it. -Peter Drucker

3) We must either find a way or make one. -Hannibal

4) Great changes are easier than small ones. -Francis Bacon

5) Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy

6) Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela

7) People don’t resist change, they resist being changed. -Peter Scholtes

8 ) If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong. -Charles Kettering

9) If you always do what you’ve done, you will always get what you’ve always got. -Ed Foreman

10) The only completely consistent people are dead. -Aldous Huxley

11) Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not? -George Bernard Shaw (I think this one isn’t exact; I think it’s been paraphrased)

12) Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. -Robert Kennedy

13) When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell

14) The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles Kettering

15) Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you in trying to change others. -Jacob M. Braude

Wow, some of these are so good that I/we/you should be writing them down and stick them up around the house!  So…which ones do you like?

Do you have any to add to this list?

Please leave your comments down below.  Thanks!  Have a great weekend!

1) Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. -John Heywood

2) Desire creates the power. -Raymond Holliwell

3) Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power. -Walter Lippman

4) The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. -John McDonald

5) It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -Eric Hoffer

6) For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

7) A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. -Henry Hazlitt

8 ) The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just like as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. -Napoleon Hill

9) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln

10) Desire is possibility seeking expression. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

How’d you like those???!

As usual, please comment below and tell me/us what you think of them.

-Shawn

1) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

2) The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. -Blaise Pascal

3) All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart. -Carlos Castaneda

4) Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown

5) My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure. -Lord Alfred Tennyson

6) The mind never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. -Mignon McLaughlin

7) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. -George Bernard Shaw

8 ) The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. -William Butler Yeats

9) Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart. -Anthony D’ Angelo

10)  The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man. -Jacques Rousseau

11)  Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much the heart can hold. -Zelda Fitzgerald

12)  There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -John Andrew Holmes

13)  In full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Antonio Porchia

14)  Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

15)  Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. -Shigenori Kameoka

16)  Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. -Mevlana Rumi

17)  He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. -James Allen

18)  If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. -Jesse Jackson

19)  The heart is the first feature of working minds. -Frank Lloyd Wright

20)  A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

There you have it!

Which ones do you like the most?  Which ones jump out at you?