Positive Thoughts & Positive Reflections

 

1. More than all else that is to be guarded, safeguard your heart, for out of it are the sources of live.
    - King Solomon
    

2. People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
   - Abraham Lincoln
    

3. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
   - Sir Winston Churchill 
    

4. Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
   - Frank Tyger
    

5.  I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
   - Ann Freud
    

6. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fall.
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson     
     

7. You will come to know that what appears to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
   - Gordon B. Hinkley
    

8.  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
   - Eleanor Roosevelt
    

9. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
   - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    

10.  The important thing is not to stop questioning.
    - Albert Einstein
     

11.  Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
    - Ed Cunningham
     

12.  Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
    - Michael Jordan
     

13.  It is the most unhappy people who most fear change.
    - Mignon McLaughlin    
          

14. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    - William Arthur Ward
     

15.  Everyday we have an opportunity to make a positive or negative impact on our own lives and the lives of others. What can of impact have you made today?
    - T. Wesley Stancil
     

16.  The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
    - Benjamin Disraeli
     

17.  Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
    - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
     

18.  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   
            

19.  I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
    - Marie Curie
     

20.  You can not depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
    - Mark Twain
     

21.   Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  
    - Victor Borge
     

22.  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
    - Aristotle
     

23.   “ You see things and say ‘Why?’; but I dream things that never were and I say  ‘Why not?’ ”
    - George Bernard Shaw
     

24.  You’ve got to say, “ I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.
    - Lee Iacocca
     

25.  My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
    - Abraham Lincoln
     

26.   I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
    - Thomas A. Edison
     

27.  Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
    - Lord Byron
     

28.  The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
    - Ralph Nader
     

29.   The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
    - Lloyd Jones
     

30.  A wise person will listen and take in more instruction, and a man of understanding is the one who acquires skillful direction.
    - King Solomon