Keep Your Friends for Friendship

 

Keep Your Friends for Friendship 

“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”

― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

 

“Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You're off to Great Places!

You're off and away!”

― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

 

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

― Dr. Suess

 

“I've had great success being a total idiot. ”

― Jerry Lewis

 

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

― Joyce Brothers

 

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

 

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”

― Stephen Richards

 

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”

― Wilferd Peterson

 

 

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

 

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”

― John Wooden

 

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

 

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

 

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

 

“Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.”

― Roy T. Bennett

 

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story