Positive Thoughts to Give You a Boost

As our economy drifts into recession, we do not have to sink into depression. No matter how bad or good situations become, we always have choices!

In any and every situation, we have choices!

• We can always find problems or we can always find opportunities!
• We can find our strengths or weaknesses!
• We can find happiness or unhappiness!
• We can feel or despair!

Dale Carnegie wrote about the importance of thinking.

“It isn’t what you have,
or who you are,
or where you are,
or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about”.

Today I would like to share with you some historical quotations and positive thoughts for you to think about and hopefully to give you a boost. For more quotations I refer you to How about holding on to this? “Everything will be greatly in the end… if it’s not great, it’s not the end”.

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them” is a timeless quote from Epictetus.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy” . This powerful and relevant quote was from the mind of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It isn’t your position that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s your disposition.” This quotation was from O. S. Marden.

“A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” was the belief of Winston Churchill.

George Bernard Shaw put the importance of choice making into perspective when he said “Some men see things as they are, and ask, “why?” I dare to dream of things that never were, and ask—”Why not?”

It is important to value the importance and strength of our choice making. Let us take the challenge from Jack Welch. “Control your destiny or someone else will”.

Remember, You Will Live within the Environment Created by Your Choices!