Tag: Albert Ellis

1. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

2. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot

5. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

7. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

8. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

10. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot

11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown

14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

15. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

27. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

18. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch

19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White

20. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt