Showing posts with label Positive Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Positive Thoughts. Show all posts

15 March 2008

A Positive Thought for Saturday

Where we are free to act, we are free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say no, we are also able to say yes.

-- Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

10 March 2008

A Positive Thought for Monday

Do not be afraid to take a big step if one is required. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

-- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)

09 March 2008

A Positive Thought for Sunday

I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

08 March 2008

04 March 2008

02 March 2008

A Positive Thought for Sunday

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice."

-- William Jennings Bryan

31 December 2007

Some Positive Thoughts for the New Year

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)

Action makes more fortunes than caution.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747)

There is no education like adversity.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

A relaxed attitude lengthens a man's life.
- Proverbs 14:30

Do not be afraid to take a big step if one is required. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)

No one ever hurt their eyesight by looking at the bright side of life.
- Anonymous

With malice toward none, with charity for all.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845)

By his deeds we know a man.
- African Proverb

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
- William Jennings Bryan

Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?'
I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

Fear is never a reason for quitting: it is only an excuse.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 - 1894)

You will give yourself peace of mind if you do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD)