"Positive Thoughts About Hope and Self-Confidence"
"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk."
Jack Gibb
"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
Dale Carnegie
"Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life."
Harvey Mackay
"Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other."
Maxwell Maltz
"We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths."
Peter Drucker
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
Sydney J. Harris
"Our hearts, often interrupted by the constant thinking of our influenced minds, keep us from saying what we really feel and only allow us to convey what we think is right."
Copyright © 2008 Luis Gonzalez
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy --- Submitted by Lauren Covington --- New Jersey
"We all live under the same Sky, but we don't all have the same Horizon."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Medha Shashikant --- India
"When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity."
Hazrat Inayat Khan --- Submitted by Lauren C. --- New Jersey
"The best way to deal with a situation is not to refrain but to step forward and enjoy the pain."
Written in 2008 by Deep Sharma --- United Kingdom
"A noble idea without action is as pointless as a spear without a tip."
Written in 2008 by vukosi tshuketana --- South Africa
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going."
Napoleon Hill
"The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong - influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."
Roger Birkman
"We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace."
Peggy Tabor Millin
"A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything."
Donald Kircher
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
Douglas MacArthur
"You get to choose between a better life or a bitter life."
Written in 2008 by Evelyn Ha --- Australia
"Never conform yourself in existing structures like they were the only possibles."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Barbara D. --- Brazil
Everything is possible. You know that, but you have to believe it too.
"Like me or not, life is too short and you cannot please everyone so don't try. You must please yourself. And if you do please someone else along the way, that my friend is a bonus."
Written in 2008 by J. Lee --- Washington
"Others call you stubborn; you call it persistence."
Fortune cookie --- Submitted by Casey G. --- New Jersey
This quote is helpful when you keep losing at something yet you refuse to give up and everyone else tells you to give in.
"Your past may have defined who you were today, but don't let it define who you will be tomorrow."
Written in 2008 by Chris M. --- Kansas
"The best way to get approval is not to need it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Suraj Singh --- India
"There is no use living in your dreams or dreaming about your life without a well-planned course of action."
Chaitanya Goteti --- Submitted by Sreenath J. --- Minnesota
This one helped solidify the course to living a dream. Be proactive.
"Once you know your value, you need no validation from any other."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jamel Hill --- Illinois
"Every disappointment in life can be a steppingstone to greater things."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vidya G. --- India
"Life is just unpredictable, as sometimes you have to run before you start learning how to walk."
Written in 2008 by Sundeep Sahitia --- Pakistan
A writer writes. So if you want to be a writer, write.
The Ten Cannots
- You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
- You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
- You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
- You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
- You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
- You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
- You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
- You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
- And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Rev. William J. H. Boetcker --- Submitted by Oscart Pukt
--- Author's name provided by Wesley Fielding