The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Don’t follow a trend. Follow your heart.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either.
Keep going. Grind for what you want. Pray. Listen to your mama.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
You can be sexy and feel good in your skin, no matter what size you are.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
Never take counsel of your fears.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
You change your life by changing your heart.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that’s left is The Extraordinary.
Choose your love, Love your choice.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way!
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
It’s not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Only do what your heart tells you.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.
