Positive Phrases/quotations
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Everything has its beauty,
but not everyone sees it.

It does not matter how slowly you go,
so long as you do not stop.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.

I want you to be everything that's you,
deep at the center of your being.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.

Choose a job you love, and you will never
have to work a day in your life.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
1. by reflection, which is noblest;
2. by imitation, which is easiest;
3. by experience, which is the bitterest.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

by Confuscious

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The will to win, the desire to succeed,
the urge to reach your full potential...
these are the keys that will unlock
the door to personal excellence.

Confucius

Accept the challenges so that you
can feel the exhilaration of victory.

What you do today can improve
all your tomorrows.

Ralph Marston

With the new day comes
new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The most certain way to succeed is always
to try just one more time.
**Thomas A. Edison

Problems are not stop signs,
they are guidelines.
**Robert H. Schuller

The secret of getting ahead
is getting started.
**Mark Twain

Infuse your life with action.
Don't wait for it to happen.

Make it happen. Make your own future.
Make your own hope. Make your own love.
And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator,
not by passively waiting for grace to come
down from upon high, but by doing what you
can to make grace happen... yourself,
right now, right down here on Earth.
**Bradley Whitford

Aim for the moon. If you miss,
you may hit a star.
***W. Clement Stone

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
**Helen Keller

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with
a single step.
**Lao Tzu

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
**Les Brown

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot in it and hang on.
**Franklin D. Roosevelt

Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift
back to God.
**Leo Buscaglia

Things do not happen. Things are made
to happen.
**John F. Kennedy

By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to fail.
**Benjamin Franklin

We may encounter many defeats
but we must not be defeated.
**Maya Angelou

What you get by achieving your goals
is not as important
as what you become
by achieving your goals.
**Zig Ziglar

I'd rather attempt to do something
great and fail than to attempt to
do nothing and succeed.
**Robert H. Schuller

I attribute my success to this...
I never gave or took any excuse.
**Florence Nightingale

Arriving at one goal is the starting
point to another.
**John Dewey

The harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph.
**Thomas Paine

Do something wonderful,
people may imitate it.
**Albert Schweitzer

Poverty was the greatest motivating
factor in my life.
**Jimmy Dean

Perseverance is failing 19 times and
succeeding the 20th.
**Julie Andrews

Only I can change my life.
No one can do it for me.
**Carol Burnett

The people who influence you are
the people who believe in you.
**Henry Drummond

Always desire to learn
something useful.
**Sophocles

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In order to carry a positive action
we must develop here a positive vision.
**Dalai Lama

Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win.
**Lyndon B. Johnson

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,
you'll start having positive results.
**Willie Nelson

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible
preparation for success.
**Joyce Brothe

Every day brings new choices.
**Martha Beck

You cannot have a positive life
and a negative mind.
**Joyce Meye

Live life to the fullest,
and focus on the positive.
**Matt Cameron

I believe if you keep your faith,
you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude,
if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
**Joel Osteen

You're going to go through tough times -
that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens
to you, it happens for you.'
 
See the positive in negative events.
**Joel Osteen

The most important thing is to try and inspire
people so that they can be great in whatever
they want to do.
**Kobe Bryant

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
**Zig Zigler

It takes but one positive thought
when given a chance to survive and
thrive to overpower an entire
army of negative thoughts.
**Robert H. Schuller

Few things in the world are more powerful
than a positive push.  A smile. A world of
optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
**Richard M. DeVos

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early.
It's the best part of the day.
**George Allen, Sr.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset
and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
**Roger Clemens

Don't let people disrespect you. Our best friend says
don't open the door to the devil.
Surround yourself with positive people.

The best thing to do when you find yourself in
a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround
yourself with the strongest, finest, most
positive people you know.
**Kristin Armstrong

You have to listen to the people who have
a negative opinion as well as those who
have positive opinion. Just to make sure that
you are blending all these opinions in
your mind before a decision is made.
**Carlos Ghosn

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the
gate to eternity.
**Khalil Gib

When someone does something good, applaud!
You will make two people happy.
**Samuel Goldwyn

A lot of times people look at the negative
side of what they feel they can't do.
I always look on the positive side of what
I can do.
**Chuck Norris

A year or so ago I went through all the people
in my life and asked myself: does this person
inspire me, genuinely love me and support
me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive
influences in my life.
**Mena Suvari

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter
into a room is indeed blessed.
**Bennett Cerf