Favorite Positive Quotes

Favorite Positive Quotes
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama

"You are what you think about all day long." - Dr. Robert Schuller
“My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.” Elaine Maxwell

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." Dorothy Thompson
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." Mary Engelbreit

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Pericles
“Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.” Steven Covey
"If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that’s the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed – when there is just a few." Jim Rohn
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." Buddha
“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.” Alex Noble
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
March 9, 2008
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." Charles DuBois
“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." Abraham Lincoln
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind." - William James

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." Joan Baez

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it." Margaret Thatcher

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. " Richard M. DeVos

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius

"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses." Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright

"There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity." Douglas MacArthur

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -Thomas Jefferson

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have." Sir James M. Barrie

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Frederick Keonig

"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” Kahlil Gibran

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile." Brian Tracy

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Allan K. Chalmers

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is." Anne Frank

"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." Robert Louis Stevenson

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.” Mahatma Ghandi

"Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this; it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong." Anne Frank

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

"You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts." Napoleon Hill

Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner