July 12

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley

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

Your greatness is measured by your horizons. – Michelangelo

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. – Andrew Carnegie

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say. – Keith Ellis

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. – Ken Hill

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. – Dale Carnegie

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown

July 11

Focus not on the commotion around you, but on the opportunity ahead of you. – Arnold Palmer

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. – Ken Keyes

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. – Eckhart Tolle

If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much — those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. K Curtis

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. – Bette Midler

Our lives improve only when we take chances ~ and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. – Walter Anderson

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. – Alexander Hamilton

July 10

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. – Dale Carnegie

Enthusiasm is that special quality that makes things happen. I think of it as the wind that whips the flames of desire into a burning inferno. In reality, enthusiasm is just a state of mind…an emotion…which you control. – Thomas D. Willhite

There are times when we may fool ourselves. There are times when we can fool others. But we can never fool our body. It is the most sensitive barometer of our inner world. – Sherril Sellman

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. – Denis Waitley

Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there. – Jim Rohn

Good friends are good for your health. – Irwin Sarason

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. – Author Unknown

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character. – Vince Gill

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. – Paul J. Meyer

It doesn’t interest me how old you are, I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. – Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. – Mort Walker

July 9

When I play a game, I assume that I may win or lose. Why would I play if I don’t have an opportunity to win, and why would you play if you don’t? Changing minds is the same thing: I have to be open to the possibility that my mind may change if I want you to be open to the possibility that yours may change. – Mark Chussil

The best way to predict the future, is to create it. – Anonymous

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. – Anthony Robbins

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. – Richard M DeVos

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e. e. cummings

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you’re at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. – Yo-Yo Ma

To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun? – Katherine Graham

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill

July 8

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask “how,” while others of a more curious nature will ask “why.” Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. – Man Ray

The Inability To Change Is The Inability To Reckon With Reality – Stefan Rudolph

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life’s beauty with you. – J. Kenfield Morley

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller

You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. – Lydia M. Child

The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life. – Ted Andrews

How long should you try? Until. – Jim Rohn

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. – John D. Rockefeller III

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. – Confucius

When you’re prepared, you’re more confident. When you have a strategy, you’re more comfortable. – Fred Couples

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. – Sir Roger L’Estrange

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. – Tao Te Ching

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

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

July 7

It’s not where you start – it’s where you finish that counts. – Zig Ziglar

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Gagehot

There’s no reward in life without risk. – Barry J. Farber

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold Toynbee

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first – Harry Truman

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover

July 6

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away. – Dag Hammarskjöld

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. – Sir Richard Steele

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. – J. Paul Getty

First we make our habits then our habits make us. – Denis Waitley

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. – Harvey Mackay

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively. – W. Clement Stone

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. – Mary Lou Cook

You only live once–but if you work it right, once is enough. – Joe Lewis

Time is not a line, but a series of now points. – Taisen Deshimaru

Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. – Foster C. McClellan

July 5

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I didn’t have time.” – Franklin Field

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dream. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. – Mahatma Gandhi

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. – Og Mandino

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau

You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. – Scott Sorrell

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. – Macaulay

A man is not good or bad for one action. – Thomas Fuller

July 4

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. – Jean Baptiste Massieu

Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy, and the greatest of these is Confidence. – Walt Disney

We must become the change we wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. – Michael O’Brien

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. – Mahatma Gandhi

Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us. – Frank Crane

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. – Norman Vincent Peale

July 3

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. – George Washington Carver

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that… the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat. = Elbert Hubbard

You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now. – Fred Smith

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

When you believe and think “I can,” you activate your motivation, commitment, confidence, concentration and excitement – all of which relate directly to achievement. – Dr. Jerry Lynch

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. Goddard

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker

The proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. – Thomas Szasz

Character is simply habit long continued. – Plutarch

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

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow you way. – Jim Rohn

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for. – Zig Ziglar

Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. – Brian Tracy