In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!
If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.
You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.
You can't change what you don't acknowledge.
People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.
Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.
Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.
We teach people how to treat us.
You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.
Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.
Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.
Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.
When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.
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