Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARDThe greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence.
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Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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Do more than be fair: be kind.
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If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.
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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
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Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.
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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
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Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner.
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.
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Do more than believe: practice.
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Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
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Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
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In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
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Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
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Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
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There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.
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Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
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