KINDNESS

“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.” —George D. Prentice

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” —George Adams

“True self worth, success and wealth can only come about from responsible love, caring and compassionate thoughts and actions.” —Ty Metsker

“I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now... as I shall not pass this way again.” —William Penn

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” —Henry James

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” —Dale Carnegie

“I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” —Thomas Jefferson

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” —Thomas Paine

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." -- Lucille Ball
"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." -- Rubel Shelly
"Living in the past is kind of like living in a coffin…it's totally constraining, and ends up being a lid on your growth…" -- Doug Firebaugh
"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace
"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber." -- William Mather Lewis
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -- Charlotte Bronte
"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." -- Maya Angelou

OVERCOMING FEAR

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis
"Not a single person has ever accomplished anything of significance without first feeling scared to death!" -- Rick Beneteau
"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down." -- Arianna Huffington
"To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be." -- Brian Tracy