Are you an optimist?

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic (Albert Schweitzer)

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. (Max Lerner)

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. (Winston Churchill)

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door - or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. (Joan Rivers)

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I say we look around for doors and windows instead of walls….

Quotes and sayings on Children #1

Children need models rather than critics. (Joseph Joubert)

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (Phyllis Diller)

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. (Thomas S. Szasz)

Small tasks make a big difference

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.  (Marian Wright Edelman)

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. (Paul J. Meyer)

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. (Paul Klee)

Good work done little by little becomes great work. Your house of success will be built brick by brick. (Max Steingart)

Quotes and Sayings on Living

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. (Alfred E. Newman)

Most of our unhappiness keeps us living in the past and prevents us fully living in the present. (Unknown)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. (William James)

With excellent time management, you get more living out of life, more time for the people and things you enjoy. (Brian Tracy)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. (Steve Jobs)

Hypocrites

What I fear most for my people are the hypocrites, who talk wisely, yet act unjustly. (The Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, as reported by Umar bin al-Khattab r.a)

Success Quotes #3

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be. (Brian Tracy)

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. (Conrad Hilton)

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. (Bill Bradley)

The ‘Do’ Quotes

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
(Edward Everett Hale)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
(Mark Twain)

It is not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know. (Unknown)

Spending the days Quotes

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. (Unknown)

We do not remember days; we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese)

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian Fleming)

Education Quotes

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle. (Karl G. Maeser)

Education means inspiring someone’s mind, not just filling their head. (Katie Lusk)

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. (Walt Disney)

Success Quotes #2

Ultimately the people who win, who achieve victory in life are the people who are committed to it. They outlast everybody else. Because quite frankly all success in business, all success in relationships, all success in life comes at the end of the road of commitment! (Chris Widener)

It is no use saying :We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary (Winston Churchill)