Positive Quotes - Page 10

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Margery Allingham

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

Raymond Charles Barker

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.

If you prepare for old age old age comes sooner.

Anonymous

It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.

Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Wernher von Braun

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Franklin Kettering

On the human chessboard all moves are possible.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel L. Reardon

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.

One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.

Simone de Beauvoir

Like begets like honesty begets honesty trust trust and so on.

Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.

Henry L. Stimson

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Simone de Beauvoir

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Henry David Thoreau

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance or brusqueness-or some provocation.

Robert Hugh Benson

If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.

Saint Augustine

I have found that if you love life life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.

Lucimar Santos de Lima

We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.

This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

Sarah Winnemucca

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Margery Allingham

What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?

The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.

John DePasquale

Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

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

Positive thinking is the key to success in business education pro football anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't believe in pessimism.

If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

George Meredith

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

Jelaluddin Rumi

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.

Charles B. Newcomb

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Diana Schneider

Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.

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