The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose - J. Martin Kohe
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made - Wayne Dyer
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them - M. Scott Peck
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it - M. Scott Peck
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it - Kurt Lewin
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail - Abraham Maslow
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying - B. F. Skinner
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change - Carl Rogers
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading - B. F. Skinner
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made - James Hillman
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life - Abraham Maslow
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use - Wendell Johnson
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression - Karen Horney
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too - Howard Gardner
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy - Wayne Dyer
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy - Wayne Dyer
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance - Nathaniel Branden
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it - James Hillman
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say - Wayne Dyer
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you - Wayne Dyer
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity - Nathaniel Branden
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions - Joyce Brothers
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top - Joyce Brothers
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses - Eric Berne
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness - Jerome Bruner
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without - James C. Dobson
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up - James C. Dobson
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice - Wayne Dyer
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life - Wayne Dyer
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside - Wayne Dyer
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change - Wayne Dyer
Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances - Wayne Dyer
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do - Wayne Dyer
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen - Wayne Dyer
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard - Carol Gilligan
Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it - William Glasser
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration - Kurt Lewin
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