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Positive Thoughts & Positive Reflections
Distributed By Compliments of T. Wesley Stancil
1. More than all else that is to be guarded, safeguard your heart, for out of it are the
sources of life. - 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. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” - Robin S. Sharma
I1. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”- Ed Cunningham
12. “ Think like a millionaire, hustle like you’re broke.” - Peter Voogd
13. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." - Vince Lombardi
14. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”- William Arthur Ward
15. “Every day we have an opportunity to make a positive or negative impact on our
own lives and the lives of others. What kind 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
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19. “If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.” - Peter Voogd
20. “You cannot 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. “Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule but love the people who never look at a schedule when you need them.” Unknown
25. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”- Abraham Lincoln
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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
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31. “ Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else’s life.”- Steve Jobs
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32. “A true Leader has the Confidence to stand alone, the Courage to make tough decisions and
the Compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but
becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. -Douglas MacArthur
33. “ When you judge another person, you’re not defining them, you're defining yourself.”- Peter Voogd
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34. "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." Vince Lombardi
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35. “ Never let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours.”-Peter Voogd
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36. "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and
diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."- Charles Dickens
37. "It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have
spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."- -Kenich Ohmae
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38. " Leaders are much like eagles, they don’t flock, you find them one at a time.”-Knute Rockne
39. "As a twig is bent the tree inclines." - Virgil
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40. "A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits." -Anonymous
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41. "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."-Anonymous
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42. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." -Buce Barton
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43. "It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."- - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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44. "We are what we think as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either scend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn."- J. Todd Ferrier
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45. "Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck."
-Grenville Kleiser
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46. "The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
-"William Somerset Maugham
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47. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” -Muhammad Ali
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48. "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
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49. "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
50. “ It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.” -Zig Ziglar
51. " A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.” - James Allen
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52. “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”-Albert Einstein
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53. “ Every reader will not be a leader, but every leader must be a reader.”- Harry S. Truman
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54. “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 lacocca
55. “I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” - Marie Curie
56. “It is the most unhappy people who most fear change.”- Mignon McLaughlin
57. “The Sky’s the Limit
Everyone has potential… It is an infinite resource that cannot be exhausted but can be lost in the clouds of fear and complacency. It may take courage to embrace the possibilities of your own potential, but once you’ve flown past the summit of your fears, nothing will seem impossible.- Michael McKee
58. “Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. Stay grateful.”- Peter Voogd
59. “If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.”- Fred Devito
60. "Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." -Juliene Berk
61. “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without
doing anything to stop them.” - Albert Einstein
62. “ Tough times create strong men; strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men,
weak men create tough times. Many won't understand this, but you have to raise warriors not
parasites.” - Sheikh Rashid
63. “ There's no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.”- Laid Tzu
64. “ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men
are afraid of the light.” - Plato
65. “ We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”- Peter Drucker
66. “ No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”- Albert Einstein
67. “ You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice
much, he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”- James Allen
69. “ You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be, you must plan to win and
prepare to win. Then and only then can you legitimately expect to win.”- Zig Ziglar
70. “ If an egg is broken by an outside force life end. If broken by inside force life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.” - Jim Kwik
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