Thoughts To Live By 

INDEX

1. Are you a 'growing up' or are you a 'given up'?

2. The smallest spark can start the largest fire.

3. The greatest problem with people today is that they think that there should be no problems.

4. Change your attitude or change your job.

5. Become aware of the wonder of life.

6. I am only one, I can't do everything, but I can do something.

7. Most people do not want advice, they want reassurance.

8. Winners Seek Self Development – Whiners Slowly Self-Destruct.

9. I am engineered for success, designed for accomplishment and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

10. Seek your sense of significance in your own actions and contributions.

11. Learn to travel light, all you need is a pocket full of dreams and a heart full of love.

12. Plant a trouble tree.

13. Life is a 'do it to yourself' process.

14. If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly until you can do it well.

15. You can not have 'rights' without corresponding 'responsibilities'.

16. To get a sense of fulfilment learn to look 'in here' instead of 'out there'.

17. You ought to get as much satisfaction from striving to fulfil your dreams as you get from achieving them.

18. Behind the darkest, heaviest clouds the sun still shines.

19. Every 'BIG' success is made up of many 'small' successes.

20. It's the start that stops most people.

21. Cherish the living, before you honour the dead.

22. Learn to be a good loser.

23. Only fools blindly accept, or reject, a subject they have not studied.

24. Have an open mind, but apply a purposeful weeding policy.

25. By controlling my attitude I will ensure that every person I meet to-day will be, up-lifted, inspired and happier for the meeting.

26. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

27. Are you going somewhere, or are you just going in the hope of finding somewhere?

28. Be a 'Human Being' instead of a 'Human Having'.

29. The quality of your life depends on the quality of your relationships.

30. Life is for living and the living of it is now.

31. A pat on the back has the effect of filling the tank of enthusiasm.

32. We are like angels with only one wing. We can only fly when we are helping someone else to fly.

33. You can take responsibility for your life or you can make excuses for your life.

34. If you want to grow you've got to let go

35. Positive thinking won't let you do everything but it will let you do anything better than negative thinking will.

36. The key to successful relationships lies in the 4R's of relationships. Reason, Recognition, Reward and Respect

37. What you give determines how happily you live

38. How you give is more important than what you give

39. How you receive adds value to life

40. What you resist will persist

41. You are endowed with the seeds of greatness

42. If you want to be happy then live now

43. What one thing can I do today that will make a positive difference?

44. Success is not an accident

45. Don't find your 'NICHE' find your 'PASSION'

46. When there is faith in the future, there is power in the present

47. Help I'm trapped in my job

48. You are capable of doing much more than you think you can

49. To get ahead, you must learn to fail forward

50. You cannot be tempted, yet you are often tempted

51. The state you are in is more important than the shape you are in

52. How you see your self is how you will treat yourself

53. You will treat people as you see them.

54. Choose the image that you want then live it

55. Is it worth it?

56. It is easier to complain than it is to do, but it is better to do than it is to complain

57. The smallest good deed can make a big difference

58. Your life is here and now, not over there or just now

59. Everyone wants to win, but so few are prepared to do what it takes

60. It is always wrong to be right at someone else's expense

61. This world is our only home

62. Happiness is a state of mind, it is a sense of being, of being one with your world and at peace with yourself.

63. Wealth is more a state of mind than a state of pocket

64. Experience is merely your interpretation of an event

65. A picture paints a thousand words yet it takes only one word to paint a picture

66. Today is the best day of your life

67. It is never to late to be what you might have been or want to be.

68. You must believe that you are special before you will be

69. Are you a thermometer, merely reacting to your environment or are you a thermostat, controlling your environment?

70. Never turn your back on your problems. Until you face them you can't solve them

71. Whatever you are doing, act as if you want to do it, act as if it was important.

72. Beware of thought pollution

73. You may not be able to control what happens but you can, and should, always control your behaviour.

74. With your thoughts you make your life.

75. How do you make a fish aware of the water? Take it out of the water

76. Courage is not action in the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of your fear

77. You will not always get what you desire, but you will always get what you deserve

78. You already have all the resources that you need

79. Your greatest limitations are imaginary and from the neck up

80. Stop road abuse

81. Sometime, somewhere, somehow and by someone a start must be made. Why not now? Why not here? Why not you?

82. In your tongue lies the power of life or death

83. When you are running so fast to get where you're going, you miss all the wonder, that this world is showing.

84. What are you doing to deserve your place on the team?

85. Are you a 'self support system' or a 'self sabotage system'?

86. Treat everyone, especially yourself, with dignity and respect

87. To grow you have got to work on what you would like to be good at.

88. You do not get paid for what you are going to do! But you are always paid for what you have, or have not, done!

89. Learn to like yourself! You will find that it is contagious.

90. How can I make a difference?

91. What is, or has been, is seldom, if ever, an indication of what may be.

92. It's not that life is so short but rather that we take so long to start living it.

93. You can have whatever you want, as long as you are prepared to do whatever it takes to get it.

94. Develop an insatiable curiosity. Learn as much as you can about as much as you can.

95. You cannot do better than your best, but you should never do any less than your best

96. While a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step it will only be completed if you continue to take one step after another.

97. It 'ain't over till you quit

98. Your mind is like a fertile garden. Whatever you plant will grow, so only plant what you want to harvest.

99. The greatest thing about the future is that it is never too late to change it.

100. Treat everyone, especially yourself, with dignity and respect.

101. Give yourself a 'presidential pardon'

102. Conformity stifles innovation.

103. The smallest light dispels the darkness.

104. Most things that we think are impossible, are impossible merely because we think that they are impossible.

105. Take time to enjoy life. It is later than you think.

106. It is not what you've got, it is how you use it, that counts.

107. Either everything is miraculous or nothing is miraculous.

108. Attitude Determines Performance.

109. Do everything that you do as if it were for you.

110. Never say or think anything that you do not sincerely wish to be true.

111. You cannot solve a problem by worrying about it.

112. It is more important to know who you want to be, than it is to know who you are.

113. What can I do?

114. Never let where you come from, or who you are, stop you from getting to where you want to go or from being who you want to be.

115. Life goes on.

116. What would you do if you knew it was true?

117. Your life is in your hands.

118. The key to happiness is to Nurture an Attitude of Gratitude

119. You should not expect a different life unless you are prepared to change.

120. Happiness lies in these three words - ACCEPTANCE - GRATITUDE – ENTHUSIASM

121. Live each day as if it were your last. One day you will be right.

122. Choose, from today, to look for the good in everything.

123. Become a 'P D I' and live a life of purpose on purpose.

124. Learn to be led by imagination instead of controlled by memory

125. All things are created twice.

126. Don't fix the blame fix the problem.

127. Beware the strategy of the donkey.

128. Appreciate that which you have while you strive for that which you would like to have

129. You cannot know a tree by examining it's shadow.

130. Take the time to consider the long term implications of your decisions and actions.

131. Where ever you want to go, you have to start from where you are.

132. Develop an insatiable curiosity. Learn as much as you can about as much as you can.

133. Most disappointments and disagreements stem from a lack of understanding.

134. Learn to judge people by their current actions not their history.

135. The pain of repayments continues long after the pleasure of ownership passes.

136. It is much easier to stay out of trouble than it is to get out of trouble.

137. Hindsight is 20/20

138. If you do not know where you are going how will you know if you are going in the right direction.

139. The greatest gift that you can give your children is a sense of their own self worth and an understanding that their rewards in life will be in direct proportion to the value of their contribution to life.

140. Sufficient unto the day are the cares thereof.

141. Take it easy – Stretch yourself gently but consistently

142. There is nothing ordinary about the living of each day.

143. The greatest investment you can make is in yourself.

144. Your beliefs will either limit your potential or unleash your potential.

145. You are who you think you are.

146. S_CCESS or FAIL_RE U decide.

147. Does your life make a lie of your stated beliefs.

148. Our most precious possessions are free, therefore we take them for granted.

149. What problem am I, or could I be, the solution to?

150. I can control my attitude therefore I am in control of my life.

151. You cannot demand respect, you have to earn it.

152. TGIF Thank goodness it's Friday.

153. We should strive to live by the virtues that we wish others had.

154. The purpose of life is to live it.

155. The biggest room in the world is the room for self improvement.

156. You cannot feel on top of the world if you are carrying it on your shoulders.

157. It is bad enough that society relegates you to a position, it becomes a tragedy when you accept it.

158. You cannot think yourself out of a habit that you have behaved yourself into.

159. When one door closes another always opens.

160. HOW you do what you do is more important than what you do.

161. Set yourself up for success

162. Choose to live 'INSIDE OUT' rather than 'OUTSIDE IN'

163. The secret of happiness lies not in doing what you like but in liking what you do.

164. LOVE = Life – Optimism - Variety – Emotion.

165. Each person in a relationship should strive to ensure that the other person in the relationship looks forward to being with them and is reluctant to let them go.

166. When you are in a relationship you don’t have to go blind you just have to be faithful.

167. Strive first to identify and fulfil your responsibilities before you insist on asserting your rights.

168. Winning is not everything! The will to win, the courage to attempt, the commitment to do your best. That, is everything

169. It is OK to be disappointed. It is not OK to be discouraged.

170. The only failure in life is failing to attempt

171. Create the day you want

172. Everything I do, I can do better

173. Worry is feeling bad in advance about what we THINK may happen.

174. Are you getting better or are you getting left behind

175. Love yourself enough

176. If you go to work just so that you can get paid, you will soon resent your job.

177. Your title might give you authority, but it is your behaviour that earns you respect.

178. We are all leaders

179. Who is packing your parachute? Whose parachute are you packing?

180. Would I be happy to pay my salary for the work that I do?

181. How can you improve your service today?

182. If you want to be a winner then you must think like a winner, you must talk like a winner and you must act like a winner.

183. The woodpeckers inside cause more damage than the storm outside.

184. Change your life from making a living to making a difference.

185. Don't settle for average when excellence is an option.

186. You are entitled to sit at the captains table.

187. The door is never shut on you, you close it on yourself

188. Problems are inevitable, suffering is a choice.

189. Forgiveness is the ultimate act of self-love

190. When you have love you will have all you need

191. Have you hugged someone today?

192. The most important ingredient of change is action

193. The measure of your life is not in how long you have lived, but in how much you have lived.

194. The more life dumps on you the higher you can climb

195. Never bring your children back to earth, rather give them wings and help them fly

196. An unexamined life offers no opportunities for controlled change.

197. What would you be doing if you did not know how old you are?

198. You are a three dimensional being. The person you were, the person you are and the person you can be.

199. The only way to overcome FEAR is with FAITH.

200. The best time to solve a problem is before it starts

201. Practise Positive Visualisation

202. It can’t be done

203. You deserve a better life.

204. Healing your Wounded Child

205. This year, be sure to LIE, CHEAT, DRINK, SWEAR and STEAL more than you did last year.

206. You must do what you can with what you have in order to discover what you can do with what you have.

207. Majority Rule Sucks

208. The Human RACE.

209. The Power of Opinions is in the power you give them.

210. Stress Tolerance

211. The POWER of CHOICE

212. TRY

213. The POWER of PROGRAMS

214. Are you doing what needs to be done?

215. Be Careful

216. What is a parent’s role?

217. You might not be doing what you like, but you can learn to act as if you like what you are doing

218. I will treat myself and my job as important

219. I will choose to be loving

220. If you fail to plan

221. The rock”

222. Recipe for success. See it – Believe it – Plan it – Do it

To live your best life be true to the YOU, that you want to be.

Live with passion. Change your life from making a living to making a difference.

Live up to the reputation that you want to have.