“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?

And I will continue to be like the sun falling yet rising every single day.

Fall is the rise.

My flower’s roots glue me down among the wet soil in which the thunder has stunned my growth. Maybe I’ve already grown through the storms and the sun is delayed in its rising.

A phoenix rising from the ashes of my heart I will love again.

Pain comes in waves, it can help us rise up but it can also knock us down.

Swallowing the negative words rising up my throat; I am writing my days with smiles and laughter.

Sun rising slowly, frost hanging in the plush air; The skies are ablaze.