Famous Positive Quotes

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done.” 

~ Alan Cohen

“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”

~ Charles F. Kettering

“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”

~ E. E. Cummings

“Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

~ John Wooden

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
~ Norman Vincent Peale ~

“Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It isn't the load that weighs us down - it's the way we carry it." ~Anonymous

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. “
~ Marcel Proust

”A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.”

~ Chinese proverb

“If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.”

~Ted Trueblood

 "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
~ John Wooden

“There are two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

~ Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. 

~Anonymous

“Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't,

you're absolutely right.” 

~ Henry Fonda

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

~ Henry Kaiser

"It is not our abilities that show us what we truly are. It is our choices."

~ J. K. Rowling

”Things are only impossible until they're not.”

~ Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

~ Sir Richard Steele

“I am still learning.”

~ Michelangelo at age 87,

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

~ William Jennings Bryan

"It's not the amount of time you devote, but what you devote to the time that counts."

~ Anonymous

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

~ Mother Teresa

"I have not failed.   I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

~ Thomas Edison

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

~ Winston Churchill

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”

~ Leo Buscaglia

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”

~ Henry Ford