Positive Quotes - Page 9

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

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Anonymous

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Charles Baudouin

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 word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

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

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

Elizabeth Charles

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.

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

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.

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.

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