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Something Positive to Think About (2)

by Beth McHugh | More from this Blogger

13 Jul 2009 05:38 PM

This is the second in a series of popular positive thoughts that will get you thinking about how you live your life, how your beliefs shape your life and suggestions to ponder on how you can change your own life for the better from some of the world's greatest thinkers and philosophers.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. Henry Ford

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton

It seems to me that most people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. Philip Adams

Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else. Judy Garland

Take care of your body - it is the only place you have to live. Barbara Mugford

Success is had to find in the lives of people who doubt they can achieve it. Carl Mays

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. Unknown

Success requires three bones - wishbone, backbone and funnybone. Kobi Yamada

The winners of life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. Dennis Waitley

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. Unknown

If you learn from losing, then you haven't lost. Margaret Fishbone Powers

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Thaddeus Golas

Your past can be an asset, no matter how it was spent. Jost Sauer

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Beth McHugh began her career as a geologist and worked both in industry and as a university researcher.

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Dale Harcombe Online! (10327) 13 Jul 2009 08:36 PM

Some great quotes in this and the previous blog Beth. I particularly like the Judy Garland quote.

Beth McHugh (13211) 14 Jul 2009 05:49 PM

Thanks Dale, some people have some wonderful thoughts, don't they?

Cheryl Martinson (5) 06 Oct 2009 12:24 PM

Wow....fabulous quote Beth. Very inspiring.

Beth McHugh (13211) 14 Oct 2009 09:55 PM

Thanks Cheryl...it's always good to have something to inspire us when we need a lift!

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