"Your attitude is one of the single most important things you can control, and if you’re not careful, you will let others influence and sometimes even control your attitude for you."

- Alden Mills

“Your entire life changes the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself. When you realize that today is the most important day of your life. When you decide that now matters more than any other time. Because it is who you are becoming each day based on the decisions that you are making and the actions that you are taking, that is determining who you are going to be for the rest of your life."

- Hal Elrod, Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents

"The choice we face is between passively reacting to extrinsic demands and actively creating our life."

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Reactive behavior breeds reactive behavior, while proactive behavior produces more of the same."

- John Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

“Remember, there’s no greatness in the future. Or clarity. Or insight. Or happiness. Or peace. There is only this moment.”

- Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

"Proactive people focus on the things they can change. Reactive people focus on the things they can't control."

- Tony Robbins

“Life is too short to be in a hurry.”

- Thoreau

“Positivity is like a radar in search of solutions to problems. Thus, positive thinkers can see solutions, where negative people see only problems.”

- Tom Corley, Rich Habits: The Daily Habits of Successful Individuals

"Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it."

- Daniel Kahneman

"It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive."

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"Just because the sky is cloudy doesn’t mean there’s no sun. Trust that things turn out."

- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits

"If your body was turned over to just anyone, you would doubtless take exception. Why aren't you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you, so that it automatically becomes confused and upset?"

- Epictetus

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

"Life is short, so decide to enjoy it. Instead of discontent, bring joy and honor to what you do. I promise you'll start feeling more alive, motivated, and fulfilled."

- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits

“Expecting positive outcomes actually makes them more likely to arise.”

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it."

- Marcia Wieder

"Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people — unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world."

- Ben Okri

"Adversity isn’t the problem — it’s life’s greatest teacher. When we stop avoiding challenges and embrace them, we grow."

- Brian Johnson, Areté

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

- Oprah Winfrey