Attitude is everything

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Janis

Cathlete
In my quest to bring more positive thoughts to my life I was reading items from various inspirational websites and came across this quote from a popular motivational speaker. I love it!

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
Zig Ziglar


What is your favorite positive, inspirational, motivational message?
 
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
-- Winston Churchill

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to
injure future ones.
-- Seneca the Younger

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over,
it turned into a butterfly"
-- Dona

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability
and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm,
miracles can happen.
-- Arland Gilbert

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities
as you do at conclusions."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Always remember, a cat looks down on man,
a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in
the eye and see his equal."
-- Winston Churchill

Some aren't motivating, but good nontheless...
MJ
 
These are great!

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability
and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm,
miracles can happen.
-- Arland Gilbert

Ohhh - I really love this one.

And this:

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength."

(although in my case it is regret)

Lori - great movie - I bookmarked it, and the website - thanks!

Keep 'em coming!
 
My favorite Og Mandino quotes

Great thread, I totally agree. These are some of my favorite attitude/motivational quotes!
Sandra

"Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.”


"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 it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. "

"I shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me. Or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."
 
"All negativity is an illusion created by the limited mind to protect and defend itself."
(I've been finding negative people especially tiresome as of late)

In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Grace Hopper (She's right and thanks to her my work has gotten far more interesting and rewarding)

Fun thread. :)
 
just heard this one today...while doing a cardo coach:D;)

" I don't want to just live, i want to live at my best!"

also like this one:

"In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down."
--Brian Weir

Love this thread!!!:)

ok...i just thought of some more!

"You have the ability to light up your life like you can't believe. Your abilities will flourish when they are not controlled by someone else's idea of who you should be."

--Phillip C. McGraw, PhD

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything!"

not sure who wrote that one?
 
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My favorite is the one I use in my signature line. Jim Maclaren remains a constant inspiration to me.
 
SRP said:
My favorite is the one I use in my signature line. Jim Maclaren remains a constant inspiration to me.
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I am so inspired by Cardio Coach, and since Sean O' has mentioned Maclaren, and now you have, I am checking him out too.

I am so glad everyone is posting their positive, motivational, inspirational messages - it spreads the happiness around.:D:D
 
Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder,
so I can't look back for too long.
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know I just can't go wrong
With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes.
Nothing remains quite the same.
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh
We would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett


Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the song without the words
And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson


When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high.
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark.

Rogers and Hammerstein


For those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strenth.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
They will run and not grow weary,
They will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:31
 
Here's my favorite:

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first,
some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way.
So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Father Alfred D'Souza
 
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I discovered more inspirational quotes I love -

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is
synonymous with happiness
Lionel Barrymore

Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor
Oliver Wendall Holmes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential to turn a life around
Leo Buscaglia

I love all the contributions - what we have collected so far are excellent! Life is so much better when we are happy and positive!
 
toughYrun said:
Here's my favorite:

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first,
some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way.
So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Father Alfred D'Souza
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Great quote! A friend of mine and I were just talking about this very thing yesterday - how if you wait for the everything to be "in place" to be happy - you'll miss out on your whole life!
 
Great thread!

Here are some quotes I love:

"You've got to think about the "big things" while you are doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."
Alvin Toffler

"May you live every day of your live."
Jonathan Swift

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot

"Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training and some are not."
George Sheehan

And this is just an Italian phrase I love, it reminds me to take time to smell the flowers:

Dolce far niente - the sweetness of doing nothing

Kirsten:D
 
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