Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.