Positive Quotes

June 12, 2004

You can have anything you want ..if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. - St. Teresa of Avila

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis

June 5, 2004

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. - Napoleon Hill

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams

May 29, 2004

None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. - Bertolt Brecht, 1933

"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through ..then follow through. - Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker

May 22, 2004

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is best after all. - Benjamin Spock

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. - John Ruskin

May 15, 2004

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Elisabeth Guizot

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher

May 9, 2004

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. - Mike Ditka

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. - Abraham H. Maslow

April 29, 2004

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

April 24, 2004

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. - Russell W. Davenport

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Arthur James Balfour

I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking. - The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz

April 17, 2004

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -Thomas H. Huxley

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