Powerful Thoughts To Consider

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.
Author Unknown

The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation;
The truth you believe determines your character.
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community;
Character is what you have when you go away.
Your reputation is made in a moment;
Your character is built in a lifetime.
Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God.
William H. Davis

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
James R. Lowell

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu