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Random Thoughts on Attitude

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with bricks that others throw at him. 
~ David Brinkley

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
~ Robert Schuller

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you … as by the attitude you bring to life. 
~ John Home Mills

Two men looked out through prison bars; one saw mud, the other, stars.
~ James Allen

Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it. 
~ Irving Berlin

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal: nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~ Martha Washington

There is no danger of developing eye strain from looking on the bright side of things.
~ Unknown

Some people look at the world and say “why?” Some people look at the world and say “why not?”
~ George Bernard Shaw

We are the only creatures on earth who can change our biology by what we think and feel.
~ Deepak Chopra

I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything’s he’s got.
~ Walter Cronkite

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
~ John Wayne

Frank Sinatra once told his son, Frank, Jr.: “Don’t ever let me catch you singing like that again, without enthusiasm. You’re nothing, if you aren’t excited by what you are doing.”

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while they were sitting down.
~ Ann Landers

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.
~ Joan Lunden

The most handicapped person in the world is a negative thinker.
~ Unknown

Random Thoughts on Passion

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. 
~ Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French soldier, military theorist, and writer

“When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.
~ John Wesley, evangelist

Chose your passion, not your pension.
~ Denis Waitley, American motivational speaker and author of self-help books

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
~ George Wilhelm, German philosopher

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
~ Oprah Winfrey, TV talk show host, actress, and magazine publisher

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~ Harriet Tubman, American escaped slave, Civil War soldier and abolitionist

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee, author and lawyer

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Harold Whitman, author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil right leader

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth a spark.
~ Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet and critic

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
~ Bette Davis, actress

Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.
~ Arthur Buddhold

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
~ E.M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist

Without passion you don’t have energy, and without energy you have nothing.
~ Donald Trump, American business executive, entrepreneur, television and radio personality, and author

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passion and setting them to do useful work.
~ Aldous Huxley, English humanist and author

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Carl W. Buechner, author and lecturer

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
~ John Maxwell, American author and motivational speaker

Random Thoughts on Dreams

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you remove one word from your vocabulary: Impossible. 
~ Unknown

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. 
~ Jiminy Cricket

Dreams come a size too BIG so we can grow into them.
~ Josie Bissett

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral! 
~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

A dream is woven from thin air and nothing, Embroidered with wishes and everything, 
Then filled with the padding of hope and delight. 
~ James W. King

Thinking is the work of intellect, dreaming is pleasure. 
~ Victor Hugo

Dreams are the soul’s pantry. Keep it well stocked and your soul will never hunger. 
~ Shirley Feeney (Laverne & Shirley)

Dreams are journeys that take one far from familiar shores, strengthening the heart, empowering the soul.
~ Unknown

HOLD FAST TO DREAMS, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. 
~ Langston Hughes

One person working toward a dream is worth 99 people just working. 
~ Lani Kraus

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. 
~ Unknown

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. 
~ Anatole France

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours. 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream. 
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. 
~ Henry David Thoreau

Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.
~ Unknown

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
~ Friedrick Von Schiller

When I dream, I am ageless!
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ Goethe

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. 
~ Anais Nin

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
~ Anna M.Uhlich.

Within your HEART, keep one still, secret spot where DREAMS may go.
~ Louise Driscoll

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. 
~ Dr. Dale Turner