Positive Attitude Quotes

Quotes about a Positive Attitude

• By age 16 the average person receives 173,000 negative messages about themselves (29.6 per day).  On the other hand the same person will receive 16,000 positive messages about themselves (2.7 per day). - Life Studies Institute
• A positive attitude is like a fire: Unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out. -- from Positive Charges by Alexander Lockhart
• Supplementing your daily routine with positivism can only make you stronger.  Because once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having more positive results.  And over time, as this habit helps you reduce stress, release your hurt, and not take things so personally, you will not only feel better, you will look younger and live longer too.   

Children Quotes

Quotes about Children

• All effective fathers learn the importance of a wise and flexible response to their children's calls for attention. No busy signals here. No "hold" button. -- Gordon McDonald in "The Heart of a Father"
• Your children need your presence more than your presents. --Jesse Jackson
• Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. --Elizabeth Stone

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Trees

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. --Warren Buffet

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. --Charles Dickens

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled. -- Irenaeus

Improvements

None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. --Bertolt Brecht, 1933

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty --Heber J. Grant

The only things that are improved by breaking are the hearts of sinners.

Misc

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. - Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere. --Goodier

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. --Danny Kaye

A hero is a man who does what he can. -- Roman Rollard

The best things in life aren't things. --Art Buchwald

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. – Savage

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

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. -- James A. Garfield

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be. - Winfrey

The hardest thing to give up is the need to be right in everything. --Don R. Wilkins

Peace of mind comes from creating harmony in your own environment. --Don R. Wilkins.

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made. --Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. --Phillips Brooks

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! --Pat Riley

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone. --Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) British Actress

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street. --Mark Helprin () American Novelist and Writer

Goals

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Name

I don't want them to forget Ruth. I just want them to remember me! -- Henry Aaron (Major league outfielder)

Maturity

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -- Joshua L. Liebman

Quotes

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight we all quote. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Treasury of Notes, Quotes & Anecdotes for Sermon Building

Sermons

We are the sermons the world is heeding. -- Billy Graham

Kindness

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.                        Annie Lennox

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.                  

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.                        Og Mandino

If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.          Martin Kornfeld

It was said of Henry Ward Beecher that no one ever felt the full force of his kindness until he did Beecher an injury.                         Harry Fosdick

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.           Frederick W. Faber

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.             Mark Twain

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.                        Samuel Johnson

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.                        S.H. Simmons

Kindness is the oil that takes friction out of life.                        Author Unknown

Love dissolves hate. Kindness melts cruelty. Compassion calms passion. Cooperation evokes love and when we bow, others bend. This creates harmony.                        unknown

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.                        Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness -- it is usually returned.                        Cort R. Flint

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.       Sophocles

Only kindness can do that                        Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The male is a domestic animal that, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.      Jilly Cooper

The stream of spontaneous acts of Godly kindness carries us to the sea of contentment and peace.               Constance Hurst-Howard

Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.                        Persian proverb

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.                        Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him. -- Julian of Norwich

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. --Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881); Scottish author, essayist, & historian.

Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier - Mother Teresa


Select a few people to be particularly kind to today, those you were a little harsh with yesterday." --Norman Vincent Peale


Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness — these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. --F.W. Robertson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. - Twain