Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

My life is better with every year of living it.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

The fact that I do so many things, it really nurtures me.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Every person can reach a full life.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.

I deserve to live a good life, and I begin now.

It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.