Friday, November 28, 2008

Attitude, Positive Thinking

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.- Earl Nightingale

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.- Unknown Author

Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost.- Robert H. Schuller

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees onlythe red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.- Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude determines altitude.- Zig Ziglar

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.- M. Russell Ballard

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.- Jim Rohn

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.- William James

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.- Brian Tracy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is not an occasional habit, it is a permanent attitude- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.- Buddha .

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 .

If you hang out with a loser, you are a loser. Taken from The Apprentice- Donald Trump.

If you think you can-you can!- Unknown Author

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. - Brian Tracy

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.- William James

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.- Zig Ziglar

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
- Zig Ziglar

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.- Napoleon Hill

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. - Brian Tracy

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

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

Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. - Zig Ziglar

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.- Earl Nightingale

People settle for mediocrity for one reason - they're lazy. Taken from The Apprentice
- Donald Trump

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. - Jim Rohn

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.- Zig Ziglar

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.- William James

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. - Zig Ziglar

The most important question to ask on the job is not, What am I getting? The most important question is, What am I becoming?- Jim Rohn

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.- John Wooden

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.- Muhammad Ali

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin 'thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes. - Zig Ziglar

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.- Albert Einstein

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.- Brian Tracy

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny. - Zig Ziglar

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.- Robert Collier

You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise. - Zig Ziglar

You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.- Wayne W. Dyer

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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chatterboxes

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. -George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. -Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. -Thomas Neill

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -Plato (429-347 BC)

The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

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Hypocrisy

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer. -Dean Acheson.

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

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learning from history

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana (1863-1952)

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. -John Cage (1912-1992)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -Napoleon Bonaparte

What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

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Being oneself

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over. -Yiddish proverb

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. -Daisy Bates (1863-1951)

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. -James R. Cook

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778

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