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Some Positive Bites to Digest
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We feed our bodies three times a day to keep it healthy - we should be feeding our mind positive, affirming thoughts to keep it healthy. You've heard the saying "we are what we eat"......a famous book also said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." As with computers - Garbage In, Garbage Out. So think about these bits of mental nutrition and realize that our attitude is our most priceless possession and whether it is positive or negative - it is a choice.

If you see someone without a smile, give him yours.
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be. (Abraham Lincoln)
You can't do the same thing day after day and expect different results. If you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done.
Age is a number; old is a state of mind. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were.
Winners look for pleasing results, not pleasing methods.
Winners engage in activities that are goal-achieving; others do things that are tension-relieving.
Great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about events, small minds talk behind other people's backs and stir up trouble.
We have two ears and one mouth - it would seem that we should listen twice as much as we talk.
Those who say something can't be done are constantly being interrupted by those who are doing it.
What would your goals be if you knew you could not fail?

Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to meet it.
When a group of 90+ year olds were asked how they would live life differently if they could start over - they said they would:
- Take more risks
- Reflect more
- Do more things that would have an impact after they were gone
The saddest words of tongue or pen are these: "It might have been...." (John G. Whittier)
LUCK is a loser's excuse for a winner's hard work.
If you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true? (JimineyCricket)
A big dream is the best insurance against complacency.
I don't believe there are any lazy people - just some that are currently uninspired. (Zig Ziglar)
Success means getting up one more time than you fall down. All great achievers failed their way to success.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs15:1)
No one wins an argument: "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."

Law of Compensation: you plant corn, you reap corn. Law of Increasing Return: you reap more corn than you plant. Law of Delayed Gratification: you reap a while after you plant.
The pain of failure is far greater than the pain of success.
When the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.
Pressure and time transform coal into diamond.
There are those who think they can succeed and those who think they can't: both are right.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you'vealways got.
Action cures fear.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. (Emerson)
From within decide to win.
Who you are in five years is determined by: 1. the books you read 2. the people you associate with.

There's no inspiration in logic.
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime.
The greatest form of charity is to teach self-sufficiency.
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what someone else does; success is measured by what you do compared to what you could have done with what God has given you. (Zig Ziglar)
We feel bad when we compare ourselves to others. The problem is that we compare our weaknesses or undeveloped talents to their strengths.
People who make money don't make excuses, and people who make excuses don't make money.
It's always too soon to quit.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't want to do it, you'll find an excuse.
Winners find time to do more; losers find excuses to do less.
Everyone has the time and energy to do the things they want to do.

Success is not HAVING what it takes, but DOING what it takes.
Everyone is motivated by either 1. fear of loss or 2. hope to gain
(Plaque on covered wagon during settlement of the west) The cowards didn't even start. The weak died along the way. Only the strong made it through.
When we make a commitment to a decision, God brings the people and the circumstances together to make it happen.
Mediocrity is self-inflicted when you would rather hold on to your fears than go for your dreams.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Most people live the first half of their life trying to figure out what they're going to do, and the second half of their life regretting they never did anything.
The one who handles the problems gets paid the money.
In life you will pay one of two prices: the price of discipline or the price of regret. If there were a scale, the price of discipline would weigh ounces, but the price of regret would weigh tons.
Long term goals prevent frustration with short term failures.

Leaders dwell on the rewards of success, losers focus on the penalties of failure.
Leaders are propelled by desire and are not compelled by fear.
When you have an interest in something, you'll do whatever is convenient. When you make a commitment to something, you'll do whatever it takes.
We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
Fear is nature's warning to get busy. (Henry Link)
Most people are crisi-motivated instead of opportunity-motivated.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Be consistently consistent.
Be a winner, not a whiner.
Success is built on inconvenience, not convenience.

If better is possible, good is not enough.
The price of success is not negotiable.
A man who is afraid of hard work had better accept poverty. (Leonardo DaVinci)
Average is the best of the worst and the worst of the best.
Focus on the solution, not the problem.
When your hopes and dreams outweigh your fears and doubts, you will take action and you will succeed.
Success is acting on goals, not wishing on dreams.
I will do today what others will not do so I can do tomorrow what others cannot do.
A dream without a willingness to work for it is a fantasy.
Most people would rather endure the hardship of a small income than exercise the discipline to earn a large one.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (John Quincy Adams)
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
When you are honest with yourself and realize who you have become - that's the point in time when you can decide who you want to be.
Faith and fear are the same force - fear is the negative side, faith is the positive side. When you have one you can't have the other.
Strong timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
Success comes not from knowing what to do, but from doing what you know.
Success comes in a CAN, failure comes in a CANNOT.
Pray as if it all dependes on God, work as if it all depends on you.
Let those who don't want anything have fond memories of never having anything.
Things come to those who wait, but only what's left over from those who hustle.

You become a failure when you begin blaming other people.
A dog in the hunt doesn't feel the fleas; a dog on the porch scratches his fleas.
If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Vince Lombardi)
Blessed are those who don't expect anything for they won't be disappointed.
Personal responsibility and freedom are frightening to people. They would rather surrender it all to someone else. There is a continual temptation to trade away our authority and responsibility for our lives. (JoelHunter)
Regarding time and money WASTE: avoid it SPEND: minimally INVEST: for best return
"Easy does it" doesn't do it.
Belief + action = results.
Inch by inch it's a cinch. How do you eat an elephant? A bite at a time.

Attitude is 90% of success. Hard work is the other half. (Yogi Berra)
Behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law.
If your mind can conceive it and your heart can believe it - you will achieve it.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile dream.
Non-dreamers will always work for and be contralled by dreamers.
If you don't take control of your future, someone else will.
You won't leave footprints on the beaches of the world if you are leaving butt prints in the Lazy Boy. (Dewey Tobias)
When you help enough people get what they want out of life, you'll automatically get what you want. (Zig Ziglar)
People shoudn't be impressed with what you are driving, they should be impressed with what's driving you.

Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent....be sure you practice the right thing.
What do you want? What's the cost? Pay the price.
Experience is not the best teacher; someone else's experience is the best teacher. (Mark Twain)
I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt nothing and succeed.
There are three types of people: 1. Those who know what they want and know how to get it. 2. Those who know what they want, but don't know how to get it. 3. Those who don't want anything and don't care about getting ahead.
Dream + Goal + Plan + Action = Success
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Phil 4:13)
All things work together for good for those who love the Lord, for those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)
Where there is no vision, the people perish.....( )
Most people don't plan to fail, they just fail to plan.

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.
You will either be a meaningful specific or a wandering generality.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. (Woodrow Wilson)
It may be those who do most dream most. (Stephen Leacock)
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing..... (Helen Keller)
Our only limitations are those which we set up in our minds or permit others to establish for us. (Napoleon Hill)
People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.
If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view.
Some people treat life like a slot machine - putting in as little as possible while hoping for the jackpot.

We learn by doing things rather than talking about them.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
You can usually determine the caliber of a man by ascertaining the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him.
God often tries us with a little to see what we would do with a lot.
Don't mind criticism. If it's untrue, disregard it. If it's unfair, keep from irritation. If it's ignorant, smile. If it's justified, learn from it.
Your attitude determines your altitude.

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