Positive Quotes - Page 8

Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

Jean Bach

We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

They've got us surrounded again the poor bastards.

General Creighton W. Abrams

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

If you act like you're rich you'll get rich.

Adnan Koashoggi

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

General Oliver Prince Smith

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.

Pierre S. DuPont IV

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

Abraham Lincoln

We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.

Sir Andrew Cunningham

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

If you want a quality act as if you already had it.

If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

Lillian Hellman

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

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Frances Ridley Havergal

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

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