The Meaning of Success:
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty,
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
87 percent of all people fail, not because of capability but because of personality.
Kurt Einstein of Success magazine.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
John C. Maxwell
A limit on what you will do, puts a limit on what you can do.
anon.
A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.
John C. Maxwell
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
Dr. Joyce Brothers.
Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action... we can directly regulate the feeling.
William James
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Allen
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.
John C. Maxwell
An attitude's growth never stops.
John C. Maxwell
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.
John C. Maxwell
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.
John C. Maxwell
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson
Be the most enthusiastic person you know.
John C. Maxwell
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Finally, I urge you to develop an optimistic attitude and a strong belief in yourself. I don't advise you to be egocentric, but it's not conceited to have a solid sense of your own abilities. This will help you through the rough times we all encounter. Instead of being defeated by them, you will lean from these challenges and go on to conquer them.
Mike Wright, Chairman/CEO/President, Supervalu, Inc.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
Sally Koch
Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.
anon.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
Hire attitude and train for skill. The most talented person will destroy a business if there is an attitude problem, and fellow employees are the first to know it.
Bruce Flohr, President/CEO, Rail Tex Services Co., Inc.
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Harry S. Truman
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
Roger Babson
If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.
Zig Ziglar
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
Napoleon Hill
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
Keep your face to the sun, and you will never see the shadows.
Helen Keller
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often our attitude is the only difference between our success and failure.
Abraham Lincoln
One person can make a difference and every person should try.
John F. Kennedy
Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
Abraham Lincoln
Places and circumstances never guarantee happiness. You must decide within yourself whether you want to be happy. Robert J. Hastings Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.
John C. Maxwell
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
Publilius Syrus
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Napoleon Hill
The leader's attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.
John C. Maxwell
The only lack or limitation is in your own mind. N.H. Moos The positive person understands that the journey is as enjoyable as the destination.
anon.
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 3
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2) Shakespeare
We are either the masters or the victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice - blessing or curse.
anon.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are conditioned to see it.
Stephen R. Covey
We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
Joan Baez
You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
Rocky Aoki
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.
Norman Vincent Peale
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react.
anon.
Life is an experience. Live it.
Nike Slogan
Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.
John C. Maxwell
Most people have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
John C. Maxwell
Most projects fail or succeed before they begin.
anon.
Negative talking is contagious.
John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion.
John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.
John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.
John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.
John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
John C. Maxwell
Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.
John C. Maxwell
Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.
John C. Maxwell
Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.
John C. Maxwell
Our attitude determines our approach to life.
John C. Maxwell
Our attitude determines our relationships with people.
John C. Maxwell
Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
John C. Maxwell
Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world.
John C. Maxwell
Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.
John C. Maxwell
Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.
John C. Maxwell
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
Donald P. Jones
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
Harold Stephens
There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.
John C. Maxwell
To get out of a hard situation, try a soft answer.
John C. Maxwell
We are responsible for our attitudes.
John C. Maxwell
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Henry Ford
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Saint-Exupery
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
Saint-Exupery
