Thoughts for today

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." – Albert Einstein

"Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." – Albert Einstein

"Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life." - Alvin Toffler

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." – Anne Frank

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." – Aristotle

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." – Arthur C. Clarke

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." – Benjamin Disraeli

"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill." – Charles Swindoll

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. And don’t be too serious about not taking yourself too seriously." – Howard Ogden

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha

"Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." – Carl Sandburg

"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes." – Charles Prestwich Scott

"To talk goodness is not good… only to do it is." – Chinese proverb

"Don’t put a limit on what can be accomplished." – Christopher Reeve

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind." – Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." – Earl Nightingale

"Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us." – Earl Nightingale

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." – Elbert Green Hubbard

"Funny is an attitude." – Flip Wilson

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." – George S. Patton

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one." – Hans Selye

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." – Helen Adams Keller

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." – Henry David Thoreau

"When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." -Henry David Thoreau

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." – Herm Albright

"It is not the position, but the disposition." – J. E. Dinger

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." – John Wooden

"Words are plentiful; deeds are precious." – Lech Walesa

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." – Lou Holtz

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." – Marcel Proust

"The best way to cheer yourself up: Cheer everybody else up." – Mark Twain

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose– a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." – Mary Shelley

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." – Martin Luther King Jr.

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." – Oscar Wilde

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." – Plato

"He who hesitates is lost." – Proverb

"Fortune favors the brave." – Publius Terence

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

"Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost." – Robert H. Schuller

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." – Samuel Johnson

"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be." - Socrates

"Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic." – The Zurich Axioms

"Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open." – Thomas Dewar

". . . Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." – Victor E. Frankl

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." – Voltaire

"Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity." – Walter Dill Scott

"It’s great to be great, but its greater to be human." – Will Rogers

"You cannot raise a man up by calling him down." – William Boetcker

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." – William James

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." – William James

"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." – Winston Churchill

"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." – Winston Churchill

"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it." – Winston Churchill