Positive Quote Of The Day January 2016

"They never talked in reactionary terms and never defined their strategies principally in response to what others were doing. They talked in terms of what they were trying to create and how they were trying to improve relative to an absolute standard of excellence."- Jim Collins, About what makes a great leader

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Great quotes! Thank you for posting them, I enjoy reading them and there are days when I really need them.

TheVBs;2476893 wrote: Great quotes! Thank you for posting them, I enjoy reading them and there are days when I really need them.

Pass them along and Think Positive!

Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
— William Feather

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Howard W. Newton

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"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely" - Ronald Dahl

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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) American Civil Rights Leader

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"I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade - Commenting on his 8 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, during which he was tortured over 20 times." - James Stockdale (1923 - 2005) American Naval Officer and Prisoner of War

Amazing!

"There's a reason I swam five straight years and didn't take a single day off. There are reasons why I swam every holiday, every Christmas, every birthday. I was trying to be as prepared as I could, and I tried to see what I could really do and what my potential was. I just really did kind of whatever it took." - Michael Phelps on what it took to become an Olympic champion (1985) American competition swimmer