Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw (Print this quote full size)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. -
J.R.R. Tolkien (Print this quote full size)
The Purpose of Life?
To totally immerse yourself in situations that interest you and to explore the inner experiences – the thoughts, feelings, learnings, and growth – that result –
Robert Scheinfeld (Print this quote full size) from The Invisible Path to Success
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do. -
Neale Donald Walsch
To live is to choose. But to choose, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there…. -
Kofi Annan
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -
Dalai Lama
I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have. -
Anne Heche
The future is not a result of choices among alternative pathsoffered by the present, but a place that is created - createdfirst in the mind and will, created next in activity. The futureis not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. Thepaths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of makingthem, changes both the maker and the destination. -
Deborah James, Business Consultant
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live -
Garth Henrichs
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key tounlocking our potential. -
Winston Churchill
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. - Dr. Robert Anthony
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen
Trying is failing with honor - James Arthur Ray
What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do".
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop - Confucious (Print this quote full size)
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. -
Mark Victor Hansen
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it. -
Eileen Caddy
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -
Sir Edmund Hillary
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. -
Vincent Van Gogh
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -
Thomas Edison
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -
Henry Ford
It is better to try something and fail thanto be successful at not trying anything. -
Unknown Wise Person
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen. -
Lloyd Newell
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. -
Napoleon Hill
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. -
Dr. David M. Burns
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. -
David Lloyd George
The wisest follow their own direction. -
Euripides
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. -
James R. Cook
I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach. -
Wayne Gretzky
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -
Mark Twain
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. -
Dorthea Brande
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? -
Jimmy Johnson, Coach of the Dallas Cowboys (winners of two Superbowl championships under his leadership)
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Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind. Vince Lombardi
Interestingly, no one disputes the devastating impact that stress, a poor self-image, fear and despair can have on both body and soul. Instead, we resist the notion that positive thinking can produce the opposite effect. - George Ebert
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself - Herman Hesse (Print this quote full size)
I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
- Michael Phelps
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. -
Oprah Winfrey
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. -
Benjamin Franklin
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.-
Dale Carnegie
Albert Camus said ..."Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
Whether it appears so or not, you have total freedom right now. What would happen if you fully exercised that freedom this very minute? - Mark Joyner, founder of Simpleology
The more we become aware of who and what we truly are, the fewer problems we have. -
Lynn Grabhorn
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama -
Iyanla Vanzant
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time -
William James (Print this quote full size)
Whatever you’re feeling is what you’re vibrating and what you’re vibrating is what you’re attracting.
Lynn Grabhorn
Guilt is the [cause] of most poverty, most failures. -
Foster Hibbard If you do not feel you deserve good things, subconsciously, you will do all within your power to punish yourself by not getting those good things. So the feeling of deserving is a very important thing -
John Harricharan
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. -
Henry Miller (Print this quote full size)
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them / so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right. -
Peace Pilgram
Thoughts are typically behind any shift in mood that we experience. -
Joe Vitale and Larina Kase, "What's Stopping You? How to End Self Sabotage"
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. - Dr. Robert Anthony
For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur. - Jim Rohn
That's the risk you take when you change; that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. - Lisa Alther
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Real difficulties can be overcome. It’s the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore Vail
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. Jimmy Carter
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear is only a state of mind - Bartholomew
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear - Mark Twain
Doubt can only be removed by action - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within. - Peter Murphy
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When nothing else will change for the better, change your thoughts for the better. And you’ll soon see everything else following positively along. - Unknown Wise Person (Print this quote full size)
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today -
Guy Finley (Print this quote full size)
A bad day is just a day where you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. -
Unknown Wise Person
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. -
Samuel Johnson
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up -
Thomas A Edison (Print this quote full size)
You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough. -
Lama Surya Das from Awakening the Buddha Within
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -
Henry Ford (Print this quote full size)
Noting who around you is quick to criticize and who is quick to encourage is a fast way to separate low achievers from high performance people -
Danny Cox & John Hoover from Seize the Day: 7 Steps to Achieving the Extraordinary in an Ordinary World
Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you. -
Lynn Grabhorn
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Do you want to know what's really beautiful? Confidence. Do you want to know what's really powerful? Persistence.
Do you want to know what's really sexy? (Please, I know about sexy.) Not needing to be needed.
And if still "they" don't notice your good looks, your strength, and your sashay... could you feel more sorry for them?
Who needs Botox? - Mike Dooley in Notes From the Universe
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confidence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts. - Kirsten Dunst
An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive. – Don Miguel Ruiz
Be yourself. The world worships an original. - Ingrid Bergman
How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are. - Dave Ramsey
Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance, and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'? - Unknown Wise Person
If you don't like the way you are, don't worry about it. You can change the way you are. - Zig Ziglar
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality - LeRoy Washington
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier
The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness. - Hellen Hemphill
We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. - Lynn Grabhorn from Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting Playbook
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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph F. Newton
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for giving me that experience" - Dr. Michael Beckwith
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. - Tom Robbins
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James
One does not make friends. One recognizes them. - Garth Henrichs
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled. - Walter Anderson
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you - Eckhart Tolle in "The Power of Now"
It took me years to realize that I had spent my rescuing days [saving everyone she knew: boyfriend, girlfriends and their problems, kids she counselled] distracting myself with everyone else's problem instead of figuring out how to make myself happy. I think subconsciously I expected the gratitude of others to make me happy, but it didn't. In fact, I lost the job, the friends, and even the boyfriend I had tried to save. - Carolyn N. Bushong from The Seven Dumbest Relationship Mistakes Smart People Make
In my opinion, this book rates as one of the most important books you can ever read on relationships. - Catherine - Life With Confidence
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die -
Malachy McCourt (Print this quote full size)
You don't get married to get a commitment, you get married because you already have a commitment -
Catherine, Life With Confidence
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. -
Muhammad Ali
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. -
Thomas Moore
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work – Jack Nicklaus
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. - Robert Collier
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Robert Ashe
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Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves. -
Tom Morris
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. -
Conrad Hilton
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. -
Robert Collier
Success is a journey not a destination. –
Arthur Robert Ashe
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. –
Arthur Robert Ashe
Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. –
Joe Vitale
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. -
Walter Anderson
Some activities to help you build your confidence are goal planning and figuring out what direction you want to take your life. Goal planning and understanding why you do things like procrastinate, can help you to keep moving forwards towards your goals and your dreams and just becoming the absolute best you can possibly be. 
Finding your life purpose can seem like an overwhelming and scary thing. A lot of people make it sound like you have one special gift and you need to figure out what that is in order to discover your life purpose. 
Knowing how to build your self esteem is a major part of developing your self confidence.Your self esteem affects not only how you view the world but also how others relate to you. The following articles are all about how to start believing in yourself. You'll not only learn step by step on how to build your self esteem, you'll see it's far easier than you might think.
Your body confidence (self image as well as mental confidence) can be affected by how you’re feeling health wise. 
