JOSITIVE THOUGHTS

POSITIVE THOUGHTS


1. In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.—PAUL HARVEY

2. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness—SENECA

3. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it—WILLIAMS JAMES

4. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.—ABERT SCHWEITZER

5. The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.—BENJAMIN DISRAELI

6. I have found that if you love life , life will love you back.—ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

7. Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.—SMILEY BLANTON, M.D

8. Find a need and fill it.—RUTH STAFFORD PEALE

9. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.—ABRAHAM SUTYKEVER

10.The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

11. If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointment. If we don’t try, we have permanent regret.—BEN WILLIAMS

12. The surest way to go broke is to sit around waiting for a break.—ANONYMOUS

13. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.—JOHN HEYWOOD

14. It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunity, but its own talents.—ERIC HOFFER

15.There is no right way to do the wrong thing.—UNKNOWN

16.The greatest mistake anyone can make is to be afraid of making one.—ELBERT HUBBARD

17. The most important thing about a goal is having one.—GEOFFREY F. ALBERT

18. Happiness makes up in heart for what it lacks in length.—ROBBERT frost

19. The truest end of life cis to know that life never ends.—WILLIAMS PENN

20. Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.—CORRIETEN BOOM

21. Cooperation is spelled with two letters, WE.—G.M.VERITY

22. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.—ANONYMOUS

23. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.—JOHN WOODEN

24. Plan your work for today and everyday, then work your plan.—NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

25. No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn. HAL BORLAND

26. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.—LEN WEIN

27. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.—HENRY DAVID THORENU

28. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.—MARK TWAIN

29. Democracy is based on the conviction that there extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.—HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

30. While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.—ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

31. The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.—JONAS SALK

32. If you can’t hold children in your arms, hold them in your heart.—CLARA HALE

33. Be content with what you have, never with what you bare.—B.C. FORBES

34. May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.—PAUL DICKSON

35. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.—DIRAELI

36. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.—ANONYMOUS

37. God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with.—BILLY GRAHAM

38. The contented man is never poor, the discontented, never rich.—GEORGE ELIOT

39. The dead carry with them to the grave only that which they have given away.—DEWITT WALLACE

40. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

41. Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.—DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

42. Promises may get friends, but it is performance that keeps them.—OWEN FELTHAM

43. There is no security on the earth. Only opportunity.—DOUGLAS MacARTHUR

44. When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.—MARTIN WALSH

45. Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘‘let’s party!’’—ROBIN WILLIAMS

46. Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.—JOSEPH JOUBERT

47. A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.—ANONYMOUS

48. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.—JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

49. A problem is an opportunity in work clothes.—HENRY J. KAISER

50. Change starts when someone sees the next step.— WILLIAM DRAYTON

51. Next to a happy family and a few good friends, the best human gift that God can give to any man is a worthy adversary.—THE CRESSET

52. No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insoluble problem.—EDMOND J. KIEFER

53. Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.—SAM LEVENSON

54. ‘‘I must do something’’ will always solve more problems than ‘‘something must be done.’’—BITS PIECES

55. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.—OPRAH WINFREY

56. The shortest answer is doing.—L;RD HERBERT

57. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.—ANN LUNDERS

58. One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes the time by keeping its hands busy.—YORK TRADE COMPOSITER

59. To let go is surrender. To let God is belief.—ANONYMOUS

60. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.—DOROTHY BERNARD

61. Happiness is forgetting yourself in useful efforts, it’s the result of being too busy to be miserable,--ELBERT HUBBARD

62. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.—CHINESES PROVERB

63. Ideals are like the stars, we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.—CARL SCHURZ

64. You don’t have to act as if you care, you just have to care enough to act.—RICHARD DREYFUSS

65. The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.—LIONEL BARRYMORE

66. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.—FULTANJ. SHEEN

67. There is no traffic jam on the extra mile.—UNKNOWN

68. Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.—MARY ELLEN CHASE

69. Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.—ERNEST BRAMAH

70. Joy is the echo of God’s life within us.—JOSEPH MARMION

71. Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven.—BEECHER

72. A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.—BITS AND PIECES

73. Courage is not the absence of fear but the conquest of it.—EARL RINEY

74. Setbacks pave the way for comebacks.—PRISM

75. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

76. Tact is rubbing out another’s mistake instead of rubbing it in.—AUTHOR

77. Judge only a bee by the first impression.—ARNOLD H. GLASGOW

78. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.—CONFUCIOUS

79. The greatest happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.—SIR JAMES M.BARRIE

80. Don’t wait to be a great man - be a great boy.—UNKNOWN

81. Hope in action is charity, and beauty in action is goodness.—MIGUEL de UNAMUUNO

82. To be loved is loveable.—OVID

83. T he most delicious pleasure is to cause that of other people. La BRUYERE

84. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.—ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

85. God’s love does not exempt us from trials but sees vus through them.

86. Character is a victory, not a gift.—IVOR GRIFFITH

87. Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.—CHINESES PROVERB

88. For sound sleep, count blessings instead of sheep.—MARGIE B. BOSWELL

89. The greater danger for most of us is not our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. MICHELANGELO

90. I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for spreading.—STEVEN WRIGHT

91. Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.—JOHN FRANKLIN

92. A man with God is always in the majority.—JOHN KNOX

93. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

94. Success is a journey, not a destination. BEN SWEETLAND

95. We must not only give what we have, we must also give what we are.—CARDINAL MERCIER

96. Restlessness and discomfort are the first necessities of progress. THOMAS EDISON

97. Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.—GRENVILLE KLEISER

98. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.—WILL ROGERS

99. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.—CONFUCIOUS

100. To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.—WILL HENRY

101. We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.—JOHN HENRY NEWSMAN

102. Virtue is the health of the soul.—JOSEPH JOUBERT

103. If a thing is right, it can be done. If wrong, it can be done without.—UNKNOWN

104. As you go through life, make this your goal: Watch the donot, not the hole.—BURL IVES

105. Live your life and forget your age.

106. Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

107. Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

108. Help other people to cope with their problems and your own will be easier to cope with.

109. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

110. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

111. Miracles are of sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

112. Get worked up about your job and you will work your job up.

113. Ten times a day repeat these dynamic words, ‘‘If God be for us who be against us?’’ (Romans 8:31)

114. Selfishness makes Christianity a burden, love makes a delight.—ANONYMOUS

115. No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.—BANKING

116. God is with us in the darkness as surely as He is with us in the light.—OUR DAILY BREAD

117. Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.—CHINESE PROVERB

118. No power in the world can keep a first-class man down or a fourth-class man up.--DEFENDER

119. Happiness comes not from having to live on, but having much to live for.—TYRONE EDWARDS

120. Goodness is something so simple: Always live for others, never to seek one’s own advantage.—DANG HAMMARSKJOLD

121. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.—PETER MARSHALL

122. You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.—BONNIE PRUDDEN

123. Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.—WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

124. Our prayers are unanswered not when we are given what we ask; but when we are challenged to be what we can be.—MORRIS ADLER

125. Challenge makes champions.—UNKNOWN

126. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.—ALEXANDER DUMAS THE YOUNGER

127. Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.—Dr. MELBA COLGRWE

128. There is no delight in owning anything unshared.—SENSCA

129. There are people who have money and people who are rich.—COCO GABRIELLA CHANEL

130. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

131. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.—JAMES JOYCE

132. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.—JONATHAN KOZOL

133. Gratitude is the heart’s memory.—FRENCH PROVERB

134. Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.—JOSH BILLINGS

135. A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.—CARL SANDBURG

136. There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.—WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

137. Top cats often begin as underdogs.—BERNARD MELTER.

138. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.—MOTHER THERESA

139.The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but bto hold hands.—ALEXANDRA PENNY

140. You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.—ETHEL BARRYMORE

141. Recall it is often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.—LIBBIE FUDIM

142. To travel hopefully is better to arrive.—SIR JAMES JEAN

143. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures.—VOLTAIRE

144. How many cares are loses, when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.—COCO GARILLE CHANEL

145. Habit is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.—MARK TWAIN

146. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

147. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.—ALFRED ADLER

148. The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn’t hear the referee.—H.E.JANSEN

149. You can only make others better by being good yourself.—HUGH R. HANETS

150. All glory comes from daring to begin.—EUGENE F. WARE

151. The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.—BOBBY KNIGHT

152. To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.—KEN. S KEYES. JR.

153. It doesn’t take all day to a day’s work.—HAROLD L.FETYER

154. Fear is the dark room where negatives are developed.—THE AA GRAPEVINE

155. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.—CHINESE PROVERB

156. Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.—NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

157. There is always room at the top.—DANIEL WEBSTER

158. No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.—NORMAN COUSINS

159. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it’s the size of the fight in the dog.—DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

160. A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.—JANE HEARD

161. Nonchalance is the ability to remain down-to-earth when everything else is up in the air.—EARL WILSON

163. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to critism.—NORTH DEKALB KIWANIS CLUB BEACON

164. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.—THE REV. R. INMAN

165. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.—PETER USTINOV

198. Criticism is a bitter pill that must be taken if one craves for greatness in life.—ABU ABDUL-KARIMU