Great Throughts Treasury

"Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active."

"Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change."

"Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!"

"And so just when we think that resources are dwindling, we find new resources that can achieve the same things."

"Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests."

"Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes are important because we are watching these heroes make a difference in these peoples lives and sacrificing their lives in some cases and I think it is really important to know that it is not just about us but about the community."

"Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not necessarily the truth at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)"

"Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate."

"Deep within your mind lies a reservoir of untapped genius and power. Now is your time to release it."

"Don?t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny."

"Every moment allows you the opportunity to take a deep breath in and be grateful for the fact that you can take in a breath."

"Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star."

"First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease."

"Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested."

"Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself."

"Emotions are yours and you can learn to release them like freeing a brid from its cage."

"Every single day, you're trading your life for who you're working with and what you do."

"Having the Creator in my life, having the spiritual connection to the divine intelligence that created me."

"Highly successful people feel the same feelings of fear, doubt, and anxiety that everyone else feels. It?s what they do about those feelings that makes them different."

"I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator." That is how I am helping people."

"I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties."

"Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again."

"I believe that the success of a person is not measured by the amount of money they have nor the things they own. It?s measured by the way they live their life to their fullest while loving and lifting others up as they climb."

"I believe that anyone who is serious and committed to pay the price of learning, discipline and taking the right actions in the right order and at the right times can achieve and become financially successful. In addition, having perseverance and relentless pursuit are great qualities ... that will help."

"Humanity is a community, I don't care if you?re black, you?re white, you?re Christian, you?re Jewish, you?re Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time."

"I can achieve whatever I set my mind to."

"I don't care whether you are me or Michael Jordan, it makes no difference we are all going to feel that way but it is what we do about what we feel that isn't comfortable that separates the people who do really well verses the people who just meek out existence."

"I am loving a lot. I am just loving and loving and loving. A lot of people around me really see a love in me and a love in themselves."

"I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me."

"I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously."

"I drive a lot of joy from being able to help others and helping put them on the path that they want."

"I don't know of anybody including me that has not made errors in judgment, that hasn't done things I shouldn't do, that hasn't lied, that hasn't done things I am not proud of but I hope I am forgiven."

"I have a huge guarantee for you! If you don?t make a decision and change your thinking, emotions, and habits in the next 6-12 months ? You will achieve the same results and be in the exact same place (or worse off) than you are 2-5 years from now. You are either in a creation mode or destruction mode ? In our universe, nothing stays the same."

"I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in."

"I don't look at myself as a hero, I look at myself as somebody who has taken life with a lot of fun and I take it very seriously, I know it?s a very short journey and so I want to grow, I want to develop, I want to be as good as I can be so I can share what all my talents and gifts allow me to share with other individuals to make their lives better."

"I don't look at myself as a hero I look at myself as just another person who's on the path. I have got a light in front of me shining and I have got other people in front of me with their light shining for me, I have got people behind me with their light shining for me."

"I started studying successful people a lot of successful people and the first thing they told me you first have to believe it in here before you see it out here."

"I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most."

"I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time."

"I pray every day, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence."

"I think forgiveness is a release of emotions, a release to say "No I let go". I think it is critical for our mental health being and our physical health being and I think it is critical for our universal being as well to forgive each other."

"I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish."

"I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example."

"I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else."

"I think that if we look at what created us, the divine intelligence that created every one of us all He can see is that beauty and love and care so if we could just show people how spectacular they are and how much potential they have."

"I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk."

"I was putting too much stress on my body and not living a healthy life style, I wasn't taking care of myself. I was able to turn that around by having a belief in myself and trusting God and then doing what it took to get healthy again."

"I was twenty one years old and I thought, "here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go downhill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me."

"I totally believe that I everything I choose, everything I set my dreams out to achieve I will achieve."

"I was told that if you work hard, bust your butt, go to school, and get great grades, you?d do well in life. That?s a bunch of crap. Today we have better information about how the universe operates and how we operate."