Mark Victor Hansen
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Don't think it, ink it.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
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People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
To know me is to love me.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Attica ! Attica !
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Carpe diem.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
There are no gains without pains.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Real love stories never have endings.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
You always succeed in producing a result.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?