Positive Quotes - Page 2

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean de La Bruyère

If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.

Anonymous

I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun but I can twirl one. It looks good.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.

Molière

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracián

If you've got it flaunt it. If you do not pretend.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Epictetus

To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.

François de La Rochefoucauld

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.

Miguel de Unamuno

Doubt breeds doubt.

Franz Grillparzer

Fear breeds fear.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Dame Rebecca West

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Jean de La Bruyère

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry L. Stimson

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann von Goethe

Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.

Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

We planted flowers last year and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.

Lao Tzu

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

Marlene Dietrich

They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

Heather Williams

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Kathleen Winsor

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.

Catherine the Great

To make the world a friendly place one must show it a friendly face.

James Whitcomb Riley

People are not going to love you unless you love them.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Norman Vincent Peale

People by and large will relate to the image you project.

Anonymous

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Alexandre Dumas

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Dangers by being despised grow great.

The words "I am ..." are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

A. L. Kitselman

When people asked I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick the worse I got. Finally I started saying "I'm getting better." It took a while but then I started to feel better too.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

George R. Gissing

A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Toni Cade Bambara

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

My voice is still the same and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh mon Dieu when I think what I might be able to do with it!

Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.

William J. H. Boetcker

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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