| Rule #1 Never put your self down, always pump your self up! Rule #2 Think positive thoughts. Rule #3 Work on being positive all of the time. Rule #4 Do positive things. Rule #5 Say positive sayings. Rule #6 Act positively! |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Washington Gladden It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." J. Harold Wilkins The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. Thomas N. Carruther Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Ella Wheeler Wilcox When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. Thomas Edison The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. Unknown All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation. William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, explaining why he wrote his book. I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it. Motto of Francois Constantin, co-founder of watchmaker Vacheron and Constantin. Do better if possible, which always is possible. Robert Schuller Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. Actor Kevin Costner Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. Elen Macarthur, quoted after breaking all single-handed woman's records and finishing second in round the world yacht race. February 11th, 2001 If I have any message from this then it is if you really have a dream and you want to achieve it then you can and it really is possible." E. Merrill Root A beautiful child only a few weeks old suddenly dies of a strange pneumonia in its little bed; cancer or rabies brings anguished death to the innocent - and the needed; normally beneficent fire leaps out in red anarchy and incinerates a family in the night; earthquakes devastate Lisbon or San Francisco; pride of power puts the pistol to the heads of thousands of the noblest sons of Poland in Katyn Forest and tries to shovel them down under from the knowledge of man; Keats dies abandoned by the shallow futile woman he loved, and seemingly ignored and lacerated by the men who rule his day; right seems forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne: How, then, in such a world, can there be a God both all-powerful and all-good? E. Merrill Root The love that blossomed like a flower in the lost beautiful child; the reason and the will-to-good that patiently seek the antidote to cancer or rabies; the heroism that risks fire to save a child, or that will not recant or crawl with the pistol at its head in Katyn Forest… how, if the world is only and all random, malignant, evil, do such things blossom out of the omnipotent mud? Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, 1839 I don't know where this here science is to stop, mind you; that's what bothers me. Dante Alighieri De vulgari eloquentia This shall be the new light, the new sun, which rises when the worn-out one shall set, and shall give light to them who are in shadow and darkness because of the old sun, which did not enlighten them. Paul Johnson writing about the artist Donatello, in He was serving his art and his God in the way that his genius - not society or any other authority - dictated. John Hibben, president of Princeton University, 1913 graduation address You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not to tear down, to ennoble and not degrade…. The time is short, the opportunity is great; therefore, crowd the hours with the best that is in you. Anonymous Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. Washington Irving There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918. My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Rose Terry Cooke We've all got to go to school, I expect, and we don't all get the same lesson to learn, but the one we do get is our'n, 'taint nobody else's, and if it's real hard, why, it shows the teacher thinks we're capable. Helen Keller The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers. Chinese proverb The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Henry Fielding Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. William Mather Lewis The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Sigmund Freud One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Elisabeth Guizot The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. Mallett Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. Bruce Barton Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. Thomas Paine I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Helen Keller (1880-1968) Blind and deaf from infancy, she became a famous lecturer and author. ...we could never learn to be brave and patient , if there were only joy in the world. Charles H. Spurgeon A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing -- the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone. Anonymous Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being. Henry B. Wilson He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made. Charlotte Bronte If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Malcolm Forbes Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. Marcus Aurelius Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Ralph Waldo Emerson I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods. William James 1842-1910 The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. |
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