Positive Quotes - Page 3

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

Bible

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II

If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.

Chinese Proverb

1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.

Madeline Bridges

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty you will get them no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself in what life will do for you cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Preston Bradley

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

William Graham Sumner

We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Florence Nightingale

Carry on carry on for the men and boys are gone But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Lady Bird Johnson

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.

To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers administrators even gofers-at least for a while.

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood

A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

William Cobbett

We are made kind by being kind.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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