Don’t let others be your judge and jury with their pity and negative thoughts or feeling. Know that you are here for a reason. Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

If you don’t like who you are and where you are, don’t worry about it because you’re not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others.

Outside of your relationship with God, the most important relationship you can have is with yourself. I don’t mean that we are to spend all our time focused on me, me, me to the exclusion of others. Instead, I mean that we must be healthy internally, emotionally and spiritually – in order to create healthy relationships with others

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude. You will notice at once that the unhappy person has little gratitude toward life, other people and God.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find.

You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

You become part of what you are around

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

You can start from where you are with what you’ve got and go to where it is you want to go.

When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always find the how

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.