Since most of the negative kinds of feelings, beliefs, and attitudes we have about ourselves are stored, through habitual repetition, in our right-brains we need to start relaxing and using self-talk that is constructive and complimentary, instead of destructive and derogatory.

Denis Waitley
Seeds of Greatness
pp. 69

"If you have a problem--that's good!" It's good if you learn to see how to turn adversity into seeds of equivalent or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clemont Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 92

After years of sccrimping and saving, a husband told his wife, "Honey, we've finally saved enough money to buy what we started saving for in 1979."
"You mean a brand new Cadillac?" she asked eagerly.
"No," said the husband, "a 1979 Cadillac."

Art and Chris Samson, NEA Inc.
Readers Digest Large Type Edition
Jan. 1997, pp. 134

Holding people to the responsible course is not demeaning; it is affirming. Proactivity is part of human nature, and, although the proactive muscles may be dormant, they are there. By respecting the proactive nature of other people, we provide them with at least one clear, undistorted reflection from the social mirror.

Of course, the maturity level of the individual has to be taken into account. We can't expect high creative cooperation from those who are deep into emotional dependence. But we can, at least, affirm their basic nature and create an atmoshere where people can seize opportunities and solve problems in an increasingly self-reliant way.

Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
pp. 76

In order to make the best and the most of our lives, the law of success requires us to invest our whole minds and our whole souls and our whole selves in our own destiny. No obstacle can for long obstruct the path of a whole-souled, whole-minded, enthusiastic, industrious person.

Stirling W. Sill
The Best of Stirling W. Sill
pp. 45

One reason why teen-agers prefer sleeping on the top bunk: they can look down at the floor and get an ariel view of their wardrobe.

Robert Orben
Reader's Digest
July 1996, pp. 180

The happiness we are looking for, I've learned, is already inside of us. Our mission is to discover our own individuality, uniqueness and goodness and to affirm the goodness and wonder of other people. We must love each other unconditionally, without thinking: 'What's in it for me?' We must love others for their own good and not ours. If we do good things for others unselfishly, they will love us in return, which will make us feel wonderful about ourselves -- and that's happiness.

Dennis Wholey
Parade Magazine
Gaining Control
pp. 46

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values -- carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
pp. 72

Many of our everyday decisions are based upon information about ourselves which has been stored as "truth"--but which is really a combination of hearsay from family, friends, and peers, actual past experiences, and information we read, listen to, and view on television.

Denis Waitley
Seeds of Greatness
pp. 56

Everyone has problems. This is because you and everything in the universe are in a constant process of change. Change is an inexorable natural law. What is important to you is that your success or failure to meet the challenges of change are dependent upon your mental attitude.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 81

We struggle and succeed or we get discouraged and fail. We lose or gain in courage and faith. We should be wiser, more gentle, more patient, and more tolerant, as a result of living. Our sense of humor should mellow our outlook, and sympathies should get deeper, but we may be sure in any event that everything, good or bad, will be faithfully recorded in the individual.

Stirling W. Sill
The Best of Stirling W. Sill
pp. 40

You can't fully comprehend the phrase "million-dollar smile" until you've had a child in orthodontic braces.

Jean Walter
Laughter The Best Medicine
pp. 41

As the psychologist Abraham Moslow once wrote, "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short." The average person tends to settle for less than he's capable of and then wonders why he is so dissatisfied and frustrated with his life.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
No. 114, pp. 13

The ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is, in reality, the "master skill" of success. It is the single most important skill that you can learn and perfect. Goal-setting will do more to help you achieve the things you want in life than will anything else you've been exposed to. Becoming an expert at goal-setting and goal-achieving is something that you absolutely must do if you wish to fulfill your potenetial as a human being.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight

The attitude with which we approach each day controls the outcome. We must be more concerned with what we do with what happens to us than what happens to us.

Marvin J. Ashton

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
pp. 66

For there will never be a person who is more important than any other person, no matter how they look and no matter what work they do. Each of you is as valuable and worthwhile as any other persoin.

Denis Waitley
Seeds of Greatness
pp. 46

What does it mean when my three year old grandauter receives a DVD for Christmas and I receive one too? The DVD I received was "Horton Hears a Who"! Did I hear someone say "second childhood"?

Thomas Edison tried more than ten thousand experiments before he developed a successful incondescent lamp. But after each defeat he kept searching for something more until he found what he was looking for.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clemont Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 66