Nice Words

This is a compilation of "Today's Thoughts" from class:

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." -Og Mandino
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Each person must live their life as a model for others." -Rosa Parks
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing." -Pele
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." -Stephen Hawking
"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen." -Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." -Les Brown
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." -Colin Powell
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement , achievement, and success have no meaning." -Benjamin Franklin
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." -H. G. Wells
"I have always found the best way to live is to be optimistic and energetic and willing to work hard for my dreams as well as the dreams of others." -Homer Hickam
"Success is the sum of small efforts-repeated day in and day out." -Robert Collier
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." - Victor Hugo
"I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person." - Joanna Krupa
"Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three P's of success: passion, planning, and perseverance." - Homer Hickam
"Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie Stepanek
"There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting." -Hope Hicks
"I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest." -Venus Williams
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." -Marie Curie
"It is better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction." -Warren Buffett
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." -Abraham Lincoln
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." -Carol Burnett
"There is no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot." -Robin Williams
"Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it." -Carrie Underwood
"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." -Ralph Marston
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." -Salvador Dali
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking your potential." -Liane Cordes
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." -Charles R. Swindoll
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation." -Michael Jordan
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -Henry Ford
"Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." -Louis Pasteur
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." -Maya Angelou
"To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work." -Sister Mary Lauretta
"Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." -Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." - Gordon B. Hinckley
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." -Maya Angelou
"There are three constants in life...change, choice, and principles." -Stephen Covey
"When you think positive, good things happen." -Matt Kemp
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." -Frederick Douglass
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." -Abraham Lincoln
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." -Alphonse Karr
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." -Franz Kafka
"Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day." -Zig Ziglar
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." -Abraham Lincoln
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims." -R. Buckminster Fuller
"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Find out who you are. And do it on purpose." -Dolly Parton
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." -Zig Ziglar
"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up." -John C. Maxwell
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." -John Lennon
"Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better." -Stefon Diggs
"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." -Helmut Schmidt
"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners." -Laurence Sterne
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." -Jim Rohn
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." -Colin Powell
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -Aesop
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." -Robert H. Schuller
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." -Aldous Huxley
"Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out." -Jenn Proske
"Don't find fault, find a remedy." -Henry Ford
"Character is power." -Booker T. Washington
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." -Amelia Earhart
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn
"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." -Anne Frank
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas A. Edison
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -Dr. Seuss
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition." -Abraham Lincoln
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." -Josh Billings
"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success." -Zig Ziglar
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." -B. B. King
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." -Aldous Huxley
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." -Walter Scott
"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable." -R. Buckminster Fuller
"Nothing will work unless you do." -Maya Angelou
"Well done is better than well said." -Benjamin Franklin
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." -Alexander Graham Bell
"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." -Bobby Knight
"Every day brings new choices." -Martha Beck
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." -Albert Einstein
"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise." -Kobe Bryant
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney
"Look back and be grateful, look ahead and be hopeful, look around and be helpful." -unknown
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -Albert Einstein
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." -Maya Angelou
"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
"Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals." -LL Cool J
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." -Malcolm X
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." -Winston Churchill
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." -Dale Carnegie
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity." -John D. Rockefeller
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." -Mother Teresa
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." -Robin Williams
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vince Lombardi
"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care." -Lou Holtz
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." -Billie Jean King
"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." -Bear Bryant
"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."- Mike Ditka
“Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.” -Marv Levy
"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." -Larry Bird
"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them." -Dalai Lama
"With self-discipline most anything is possible." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make." -Eckhart Tolle
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." -e. e. cummings
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated." -Lou Holtz
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas Jefferson
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." -Sojourner Truth
"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” -Jorge Luis Borges
"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come." -Dwayne Johnson
"Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude." -Lou Holtz
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -Anne Frank
"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." -Omar N. Bradley
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Start were you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." -Arthur Ashe
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." -Dolly Parton
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James
"Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -John F. Kennedy
"All great achievements require time." -Maya Angelou
"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not." -Valerie Bertinelli
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden
"Those who dare to fail miserable can achieve greatly." -John F. Kennedy
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." -Helen Keller
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan
"Being humble matters." -Kevin Hart
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan
"Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way." -Jen Stephens
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Big thinking precedes great achievement." -Wilfred Peterson
"My principles are more important than the money or my title." -Muhammad Ali
"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want." -Mike Tyson
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" -Vincent Van Gogh
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." -Lyndon B. Johnson
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." -Ronald Reagan
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." -Saadi
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." -Walt Whitman
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." -Calvin Coolidge
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination." -Tommy Lasorda
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." -Unknown
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." -Thomas A. Edison
"My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past." -Alex Trebek
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." -William Shakespeare
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -William Shedd
"Give light and people will find the way." -Ella Baker
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." -Michael Jordan
"In this bright future you can't forget your past." -Bob Marley
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." -Napoleon Hill