Statewide Training & Development
POSITIVE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
1. You can’t change the whole world, and you certainly can’t change other people, but you do have the ability to change yourself. You can have a positive impact in your job, the people with whom you work, and the entire organization…the choice is up to you. –Cherie CarterScott 2. Once we hold a belief, it tends to stick with us for the rest of our lives, unless we challenge it. –Dr. Richard Gillett, Change Your Mind, Change Your World 3. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln 4. Positive anything is better than negative nothing. –From The Road to Success is Always Under Construction 5. What you see is what you get! --Geraldine (a.k.a. Flip Wilson) 6. Don’t cry because it is over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Suess 7. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust 8. The sense of wonder—that is our sixth sense. –D.H. Lawrence 9. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. –Charles Caleb Colton 10. We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what’s really important to us. –Peter Senge 11. Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. –Ted Koppel 12. Researchers find that optimists live 19 percent longer than pessimists. –The Oregonian Edge column 13. Just keep swimming. –Dory in Finding Nemo 14. I keep my mind focused on peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, I can’t be distracted by doubt, anxiety, or fear. –Edith Armstrong 15. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. –Albert Einstein 16. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. –Martha Washington 17. Everything can be taken from us but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given...