"Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?"
-- David Halberstam
"My creed is this:
Justice is the only worship;
Love is the only priest;
Ignorance is the only slavery;
Happiness is the only good;
The time to be happy is now;
The place to be happy is here;
The way to be happy is to make others so."
-- Robert Ingersoll
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
-- Maya Angelou
"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."
-- David J. Schwartz
"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces."
-- Wilma Rudolph
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
-- Thomas Edison
"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."
-- Jacopo Sannazaro
"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."
-- Grace Lichtenstein
"Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness which you can ultimately achieve."
-- Les Brown
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
-- Rosalynn Carter
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
-- Henry Ford
"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."
-- Les Brown
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
-- Sir James M. Barrie
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do."
-- Dale Carnegie
"For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
-- Sir Winston S. Churchill
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-- Jim Rohn
"Never think that you are not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."
-- Anthony Trollope
"Feel the fear and do it anyway."
-- Susan Jeffers
"The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush."
-- Phillip Sidney
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else."
-- Nathaniel Branden
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
-- Marilyn Vos Savant
"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."
-- Ralph Blum
"Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it."
-- George Shinn
Instead of complaining -- contribute.
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
-- Bertha Calloway
"Go up to the free throw line knowing your going to make it, not knowing you won't miss."
-- Hilary Ashmead
"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
Carry a can-do attitude with you.
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"We are what we believe we are."
-- C. S. Lewis
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
-- John Wayne
Do not get in the way of who you are.
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and, in the process, discovering our own unique potential."
-- John Amatt
"Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback."
-- Pat Riley
"See them always as open, and thus the doors shall be."
-- Johni Redd
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
-- Groucho Marx
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
-- Michael Jordan
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-- Anatole France
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
-- Pablo Picasso
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
-- Nicholas Murray Butler
"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
"The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others."
-- Carl Rogers
|
