No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Believe that problems do have answers, can be overcome, and that you can solve them.
- Topic: Attitude, Belief, Thinking
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Unless you believe you will not understand.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
