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Positive Quotes
"Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed
in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do."
--Pope John XXIII
"You can
preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
--Goldsmith
"The value
of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in
the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest
task
or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled
with love."
--Charles Fillmore
"Integrity
is telling myself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to
other people."
--Spencer Johnson
"A smile
is the light in your window that tells others that there is a
caring, sharing person inside."
--Denis Waitley
Gratitude
"Thank God--every morning when you get up--that you have
something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in
you a hundred virtues which the idle never know."
~ Charles Kingsley ~
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
~ Unknown ~
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
~ Marcel Proust ~
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's
pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
~ Joseph Addison ~
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to
order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a
house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision
for tomorrow."
~ Melody Beattie ~
"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive
without forgetting."
~ Author Unknown ~
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every
situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be
filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
~ Rabbi Harold
Kushner ~
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he
has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
~ Epictetus ~
"The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see
To do the necessary task that was allotted me.
Resentment of the vivid glow, I started to complain--
When all at once upon the air I heard the blindman's cane."
~ Earl Musselman ~
"There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy."
~ Ralph H. Blum ~ (
American Author )
"You simply will not be the same person two months from now
after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that
exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient
spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more
will be given you."
~ Sarah Ban
Breathnach ~
Simple Abundance
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by
them."
~ John Fitzgerald
Kennedy ~
"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in
this world."
~ Joseph Addison ~
"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact
gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to
touch Heaven."
~ Johannes A.
Gaertner ~
"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take
nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind
that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you
is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the
good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off
the word or action for the expression of gratitude."
~ Albert Schweitzer
~
"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world
knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement
- and we will make the goal."
~ Jerome P.
Fleishman ~
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent
of all the others."
~ Cicero ~
"Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience
nothing less than heaven on earth."
~ Sarah Ban
Breathnach ~
"Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.
For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of
appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life."
~ A. J. Cronin ~
"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
~ Seneca ~
"True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He
has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him."
~ George R.
Hendrick ~
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
~ Henry Ward
Beecher ~
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude.
Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.
Thankfulness may consist merely of words.
Gratitude is shown in acts."
~ David O. McKay ~
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank
you, it will be enough."
~ Meister Eckhardt
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Character
"Blessed is he who
has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate,
to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."
~ William Arthur
Ward ~
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every
time we fail."
~
Confucius ~
"Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same
materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels."
~ G. H. Lewis ~
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak
and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of
these."
~ Bob Goddard ~
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden ~
"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself
away."
~ Raymond Hull ~
"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards
and examine ourselves."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that
perfectly."
~ St. Francis De Sales ~
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they
become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch
your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it
becomes your destiny."
~ Frank Outlaw ~
"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each
day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
~ Albert Schweitzer ~
"How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how
he loses shows all of it."
~ Author Unknown ~
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't
know how to laugh either."
~ Golda Meir ~
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be
written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old."
~ James A. Garfield ~
"The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart."
~ Menicus ~
"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by
contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece
-- by thought, choice, courage and determination."
~ John Luther ~
"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
~ George Eliot ~
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the
way we spend our time."
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth
tries."
~ James A. Michener ~
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of
challenge and controversy."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine
when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true
beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Expectations
"Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict."
· Paxton Blair (1892-1974)
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means
full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
· Karen Casey
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic
that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
· Confucius (c. 551-479? BC)
· Chinese sage
"When we create something, we always create it first in a thought
form.
If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning
pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create
people, situations,
and events which conform to our positive expectations."
· Shakti Gawain (b. 1948)
· American writer, author
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations,
nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
· Fritz Perls
"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
· William Howard Stein (1911-80)
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