William James on Relating

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

William James

Source: thinkexist.com

David Brinkley on Resilience

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

David Brinkley


Source: wisdomquotes.com

Sitcom Wisdom on Reba

You've got to be stronger than the nonsense life throws at you.

Brock (Christopher Rich) to daughter Kyra (Scarlet Pomers) on handling her first break-up.

Kevin Abbot, writer
Reba, Happy Pills, April 30, 2004
20th Century Fox Television

Borealis Press on Communication

A laugh is the shortest distance between two people.

A Borealis Press Magnet


Source: fridgedoor.com

Jean de la Bruyere on the Genuine

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Jean de la Bruyere

Source: thinkexist.com

Ovid on Human Nature

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Ovid

This guy passed away sometime around year 17!! Says a lot about human nature, huh?

Source: thinkexist.com

Davy Jones on Attitude

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.

Davy Jones


Source: biography: Davy Jones

Barack Obama on Resilience

Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you.

Barack Obama
The President’s Speech to America’s Students
September 8, 2009


Click here to President Obama's Speech.

Fable Wisdom on Critical Thought

One day Chicken Little was walking in the woods when — KERPLUNK — an acorn fell on her head. "Oh my goodness!" said Chicken Little. "The sky is falling! I must go and tell the king."

From the fable: The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little

Published records of this story date back to the early 1800s

Harriet Tubman on Vision

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman


Source: wisdomquotes.com

Matt Berry, Chris Case and Allison M. Gibson on Compassion

There's always someone suffering worse than you... doesn't mean your pain doesn't count.

(A dinner guest at a homeless shelter who looked a lot like Santa (Victor Raider-Wexler) to a lonely Reba (Reba McIntire).)

Reba, Cookies for Santa, 2002
Script by Matt Berry, Chris Case and Allison M. Gibson
Twentieth Century Fox Television

Astrid Alauda on Stress Management

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

Astrid Alauda
(the author of Pippi Longstocking)


Source: quotegarden.com

Harry Emerson Fosdick on The Journey

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


Source: quotegarden.com

Rodney Dangerfield on Ambiguity

Diane (Sally Kellerman): Actually, I'd like to join you, but I have class tonight.
Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield): Oh. How 'bout tomorrow night?
Diane: I have class then, too.
Thornton Melon: I'll tell you what, then. Why don't you call me some time when you have no class?
Diane: [laughs] Alright. Maybe I will.

Thornton Mellon (Dangerfield) doing his best to ask Lit Professor Dr. Diane Turner (Kellerman) on a date.

Back to School, 1986
Screenplay by Steve Kampmann, Harold Ramis, Peter Torokvei, and William Porter
Paper Clip Productions


Source: imdb.com

Og Mandino on Forward Motion

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Og Mandino


Source: thinkexist.com