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"You create a good future by creating a good present."
"Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself."
"Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have."
"The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for."
"Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule"
"Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp."
"If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!"
"By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life."
"Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap."
"What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all."
"The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position."
"People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence."
"If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now."
"Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking."
"Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress."
"You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions"
"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries."