Oprah Winfrey Quotes
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
Stress Quotes
“The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles … are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”
William Matthews
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”
Hans Selye
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.”
Andrew Denton
“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
Douglas Pagels
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what’?”
Sydney Harris
Economy Quotes
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
-Benjamin Franklin
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
-Beaconsfield
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
-Confucius
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
-Ronald Reagan
Goal Quotes
After you’ve scored a goal it’s just orgasmic… if you asked me just after a game, I’d say it’s better than sex, but if you asked me just after sex I’d say: ‘Forget it, mate’.
-Trevor Sinclair
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-Ralph Vaull Starr
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?
-Tony Robbins
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
-Carl Sandburg
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
-Les Brown
Merry Christmas Quotes!
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
-Oren Arnold
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only
time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express
their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps,
foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be
himself.
-Francis C. Farley
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as
a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
- Bill McKibben
Christmas Eve Quotes
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
-Mary Ellen Chase
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
-Burton Hills
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W.T. Ellis
Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
-Edna Ferber
Christmas Quotes
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.
-Unknown
I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
-Norman Vincent Peale
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.
-Bob Hope
Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive.
-Lorinda Ruth Lowen
Work Quotes
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
-Colleen C. Barrett
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
-Lena Horne
I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.
-Rita Mae Brown
Power
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
-Lord Macaulay
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
-Seneca
Wealth
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
-Henry David Thoreau
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill