Best Quotes About Positive (Top 100)
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
Helen Keller
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
JRR Tolkien
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
Frank Zappa
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss
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You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
Dr. Seuss
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
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âLife is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
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You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, "I don't care how hard this is, I don't care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life.
Joel Osteen
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
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A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
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The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
Bob Marley
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Gerard Way
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Brian Tracy
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Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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Make me immortal with a kiss.
Christopher Marlowe
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
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It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Henry James
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
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Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
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Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Ovid
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Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
Alice Morse Earle
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
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One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson
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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Bob Dylan
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
Muhammad Ali
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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll
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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
Amit Ray
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Even More Positive Quotes
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
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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
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
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When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
Dr. Seuss
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
Elvis Presley
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor Hugo
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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
William S. Burroughs
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
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Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Zig Ziglar
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Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
Sheryl Sandberg
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Carlos Castaneda
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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
Mitch Albom
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
Byron Katie
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
J. G. Holland
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The best way to predict your future is to create it
Abraham Lincoln
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake...
Francis Bacon
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
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The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim Ferriss
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
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You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
Jason Mraz
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
Will Durant
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward
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Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
Og Mandino
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Janis Joplin
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Thucydides
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
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Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Anderson
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
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Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise L. Hay
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
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Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
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Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
John Jakes
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving
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Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
John C. Maxwell
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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out
John Wooden
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Christopher Reeve
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
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You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
Emmet Fox
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
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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
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Federico Fellini
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Johnny Carson
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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Dolores Huerta
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
Conan O'Brien
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
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They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
Igor Sikorsky
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
Harvey Fierstein
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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Horace
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley
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Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron
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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
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Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
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One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Ken Keyes Jr
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho
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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Helen Keller
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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon
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I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
Diana Ross
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Zig Ziglar
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard
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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott
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Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
John Madden
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
Janet Jackson
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The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Dennis Green
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
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It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Jules Renard
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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
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The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...
Irving Berlin
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer
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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
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You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
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A hero is a man who does what he can.
Romain Rolland
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
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Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
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Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Donna Karan
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
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I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes
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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
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every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Ayn Rand
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You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall
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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Tryon Edwards
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Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David O. McKay
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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
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There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
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Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
Emile Coue
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson
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Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott
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The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar Sadat
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Peace Pilgrim
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No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
Daniel Boone
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation
Rhonda Byrne
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To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Sean Covey
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara de Angelis
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The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness
Lionel Barrymore
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone
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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Lucille Ball
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If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
Leontyne Price
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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
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You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
Jack Canfield
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Carolyn Wells
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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
Katherine Paterson
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
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Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams
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Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
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I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
Gillian Anderson
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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather
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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 DeVos
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
Shakti Gawain
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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
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We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.
John H. Groberg
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
Theodore Roethke
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Richard DeVos
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden
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If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.
Sara Evans
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
Barbara Kingsolver
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A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
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The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
Burt Reynolds
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Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford
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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
Eileen Caddy
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
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To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
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We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
Earl Warren
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
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If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
Alan Loy McGinnis
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr
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To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.
James Whitcomb Riley
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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
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Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher
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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz
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I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.
Gillian Anderson
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I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
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He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace
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Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Emily Bronte
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel Johnson
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Gregory Bateson
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
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We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan Jeffers
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
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Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.
Michael Card
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith
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Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
James Lane Allen
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We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
Elizabeth Dole
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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul Jones
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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy
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The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande
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Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
Emil Brunner
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It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
Alexis Bledel
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Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather
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Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
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Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Fulton J. Sheen
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
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The only people who never fail are those who never try
Ilka Chase
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Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann
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He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
Thomas Adams
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham
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Accent your positive and delete your negative.
Donna Karan
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
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Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.
Thad Cochran
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection
Thomas Paine
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When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain
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Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
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I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
Isabelle Adjani
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However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
Chen Shui-bian
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Lee Iacocca
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
W. Clement Stone
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
Norman Cousins
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey Newton
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Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
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Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.
Robert Horry
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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.
Joseph Campbell
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett
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I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.
Margaret Drabble
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You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
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We are what we believe we are.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
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True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Tom O'Connor
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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Bo Bennett
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If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Elinor Wylie
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Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
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It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Barry Mann
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Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.
Eileen Caddy
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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to — this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
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You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
Maurice Chevalier
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James
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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
Bette Davis
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
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Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
John Thune
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Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Frances Ridley Havergal
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I made the decision. I'm accountable.
Janet Reno
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The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
Billy Joel
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My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.
Tom O'Connor
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
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Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen
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There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
John McDonald
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark
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They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.
Susan RoAne
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The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Tyne Daly
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There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Gilbert Parker
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
Saint Bartholomew
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There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster
Richard Bach
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Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it
Grenville Kleiser
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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What you think means more than anything else in your life.
George Matthew Adams
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Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron
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Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
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The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
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Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson
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We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.
Lakshmi Mittal
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Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges
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In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
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Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Greg Anderson
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In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
Simone de Beauvoir
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
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That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
George Foreman
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian
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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
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While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.
Muriel Fox
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Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre
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I am here to put out a positive athlete,
Calvin Johnson
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Abraham Lincoln
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Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie
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The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.
Sarah Doudney
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret Atwood
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If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard
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Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Ayn Rand
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
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Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?
Gretel Ehrlich
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
Sophocles
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Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object
Ernest Hemingway
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
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Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
E. Merrill Root
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The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.
Bill Hicks