Positive Quotes
Positive Sayings (7)

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

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You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler

I serve to others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I chose to release all my attachments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aid, but by
an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Henry David Thoreau

My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today, I will be gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say NO to the demands of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

I entrust my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

I Release Myself From All Guilt.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

I Am One With Spirit and All Creation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

When I Come To The Edge of the Familiar,
I Spread My Wings and Fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

I choose my life-path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

I honor all people and cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I welcome change. I drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

I give thanks for the bounties of this world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

Never quit.
- Anonymous

I shine my light of happiness
into the darkness of negativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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