Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Even failures can turn into something positive if you just keep going. I wrote a television pilot called 'Head of the Family.' CBS didn't want it. It was considered a failure. But we reworked it. A year later, it became 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.
If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
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