THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
1. You can’t change the whole world, and you certainly can’t change other people, but you dohave the
ability to change yourself. You can have a positive impact in your job, the peoplewith whom you
work, and the entire organization…the choice is up to you. –Cherie Carter-Scott
2. Once we hold a belief, it tends to stick with us for the rest of our lives, unless we challenge it.
–Dr. Richard Gillett, Change Your Mind, Change Your World
3. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln
4. Positive anything is better than negative nothing. –From The Road to Success is AlwaysUnder
Construction
5. What you see is what you get! --Geraldine (a.k.a. Flip Wilson)
6. Don’t cry because it is over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Suess
7. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but seeing with new eyes. –Marcel
Proust
8. The sense of wonder—that is our sixth sense. –D.H. Lawrence
9. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. –Charles CalebColton
10. We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dimor even
inaccurate view of what’s really important to us. –Peter Senge
11. Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. –Ted Koppel
12. Researchers find that optimists live 19 percent longer than pessimists. –The Oregonian
Edge column
13. Just keep swimming. –Dory in Finding Nemo
14. I keep my mind focused on peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, I can’t bedistracted
by doubt, anxiety, or fear. –Edith Armstrong
15. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
–Albert Einstein
16. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our
circumstances. –Martha Washington
17. Everything can be taken from us but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to chooseone’s
attitude in any given circumstance. –Victor Frankl
18. A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see because it means that he or shehas gone
from knowing nothing to believing in nothing. –Maya Angelou
19. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watchyour
actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it
becomes your destiny. –Frank Outlaw
20. If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. –Thomas
Alva Edison
21. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has. –Margaret Mead
22. Martin Luther King did not say, “I have a strategic plan.” Instead, he shouted, “I have adream,”
and he created a crusade. –Unknown source, provided by Kathy Wells
23. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other isas though
everything is a miracle. –Albert Einstein
24. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. It lies inhaving
no goal to reach. It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamitynot to dream. It
is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace not to have any stars to reach. Not failure,
but low aim, is the real sin.
–Benjamin Mays via Pablo Eisenberg
25. We must be the change we wish to see in the world. –Gandhi
26. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fearsthis is
true. –James Branch Cabell
27. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities. An optimist is one who makes
opportunities of his difficulties. –Reginald B. Mansell
28. Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. –Victor Kiam
29. For myself, I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else. –SirWinston
Churchill
30. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. –Ann
Landers
31. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. –Richard Bach
32. Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change. –
Ramsay Clark
33. Happiness depends upon ourselves. –Aristotle
34. We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
–Susan Jeffers
35. Man is what he believes. –Anton Chekhov
36. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes ithappen.
–Frank Lloyd Wright
37. It’s choice—not chance—that determines your destiny. –Jean Nidetch
38. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. –Carol Burnett
39. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make itworth
the effort. –Herm Albright
40. A strong, positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
–Patricia Neal
41. Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspectsof their
lives. –William James
42. The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. –Hazrat Inayat Khan
43. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein
44. Everyday I do my best for one more day. –Yul Brynner as the king in The King and I
45. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
46. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. –Lily Tomlin
47. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
48. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, oropened a
new doorway for the human spirit." –Helen Keller
49. While we cannot direct the wind, we can adjust the sails.
50. The next frontier is not only in front of you—it’s inside you.
51. The gap between what can be imagined and what can be accomplished has never beensmaller.
52. Be the most curious and positive person you know.
53. Don’t speculate on what might happen…imagine what you can actually make happen.
54. Many people get cynical about those who try to do good in the world. Do some good
anyway.
55. Never let the word “impossible” stop you from pursuing what your heart and spirit tell you todo.
Impossible things come true everyday.
56. Believe in yourself. Believe in others. Believe in life.
57. Make adversity your ally. Greatness is born during tough times and unexpected
circumstances.
58. Complain less, breathe more. Criticize less, create more. Worry less, laugh more. Fearless, hope
more.
59. Remember that the greatest reward you get for your efforts is not what you get for them, butwhat you
become by them.
60. The harder the wind blows, the higher your kite will fly.
61. Optimistic people are strategically unrealistic.
62. There’s no sense being pessimistic. It probably wouldn’t work anyway.
63. Have an irrational sense of hope.
64. The most important lessons often come where the road turns sharply.
65. Keep learning from what life brings.
66. Every stumble and turn is a lesson learned.
67. Never underestimate the power of a kind word, an unexpected act of generosity, a
courageous deed.
68. On the path of life, few signs are big or clear. Just don’t get fooled by the ones that say,“You
can’t get there from here.”
69. Don’t settle for being what you used to be or have been. Keep reaching for what you can yetbecome.
70. Stop competing, and start excelling. No one has to lose for you to win.
71. Loosen up. Lighten up. Keep showing up.
72. Remember, you’ll never get new results from repeating old habits.
73. Never forget your attitude and feelings always attract exactly what they convey.
74. Never give up on life’s possibilities.
75. Work as if you have no need for money.
76. Do whatever it takes to make a difference through your work.
77. Align your daily efforts with big dreams and great goals.
78. Value even the smallest moments of inspiration.
79. Never forget from how far back a human being can come and still make a difference.
80. Know that the biggest risk in life is not to risk at all.
81. Live so that when other people think of integrity, enthusiasm, commitment, and caring, theythink of
you.
82. Know you were born an original—to make a difference in the world.
