If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

© Colin Powell @quote

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

© Thich Nhat Hanh @quote

We all have problems. The way we solve them is what makes us different. @quote

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity. And there you have the trouble today: It’s conformity, people acting like everyone else without knowing why, without knowing where they’re going.

© Rollo May @quote

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

© Napoleon Bonaparte @quote

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

© Oliver Holmes @quote

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

© Mahummad Ali @quote

Intelligence is not normally distributed.

© Naval Ravikant @quote

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

© Lee Womack @quote

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

© Thomas Edison @quote

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

© Henry Longfellow @quote

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

© Angela Schwindt @quote

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

© Sydney J. Harris @quote

People should find happiness in the little things, like family.

© Amanda Bynes @quote

Happiness depends upon ourselves

© Aristotle @quote

If You Want to Be Happy, Learn to Be Still

© Ryan Holiday @quote

Brief lessons from Ryan Holiday’s «Stillness Is the Key»

There are no failures — just experiences and your reactions to them.

© Tom Krause @quote

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

© Orison Marden @quote

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

© Margaret Sangster @quote

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life.

© Robert C. Solomon @quote

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

© Herbert Swope @quote