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"We see the world not as it is, but as we are"

"Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us"

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things"

"Because we were a kid act, we traveled at half-fare, despite the fact that we were all around 20. Minnie insisted we were 13. "That kid of yours is in the dining car smoking a cigar," the conductor told her, "and another one is in the washroom shaving." Minnie shook her head sadly. "They grow so fast . . . ""

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony"

"The feeling of being productive comes not from the quantity of task we do, but from honoring the commit we set for our selves"

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us"

"I long to accomplishh a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble"

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first"

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."

"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness"

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up"

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government"

"A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders."

"You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give."

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become"

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves"

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor"

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver"

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens"

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take"

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship"

"I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards"

"All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes."

"The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize."

"For much of Toyota’s history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line – and empowering any team member to halt production if there’s an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again."

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."

"Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month’s manual should be out of date."

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."

"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs."

"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well"

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses"

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will"

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them"

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system"

"Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; failure is merely a pit stop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; failure inspires winners and defeats losers"

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing"

"I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition"

"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong"

"In the productivity game we should take our leisure time as seriously as our work"

"Stop at the end of each day to analyze how well you used it. If you wasted time on things you didn't need to do, eliminate them tomorrow. Just imagine how much more efficient and effective you will be"