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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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