Appreciation Quotes - Page 17

If you have life, you have everything.

Planning provides certainty.

Your decisions are influenced by your beliefs, philosophy, wisdom, environment, relationships, goals or dreams and state of mind.

Your dreams are the golden gate to a life of inspiration. The more you allow yourself to dream of your ideal future, the stronger your inspiration.

Routines and daily habits aren’t restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity.

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

Gratitude is a spiritual heaven.

Don’t let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration.

Your thoughts create your reality and you can chose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day by guarding your mind and only allowing the right input.

The best way of creating motivation is to do something. If you take action, motivation will follow

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football.

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life

To have extreme, laser-like focus, you must be willing to reject a lot of opportunities, even if they sound great.

Life is beautiful, so celebrate it like the gift that it is.

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have.

Some things are not worth fighting for and some are worth dying for, Wisdom helps you understand which are which.

Learn to give thanks in all things – good or bad.

Do not try to compensate people for the love they show you. Rather, replicate the love.

Want what you have, and then you can have what you want.

Your potential is hidden in what you are yet to do, not what you have already done.

If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you.

Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they will encounter and comprehend all the beauty that surrounds them. We find bliss by living alertly and unequivocally accepting whatever is occurring in the present moment. If a person realizes that the present moment is all that matters, they will gain an inner stillness and appreciate the beauty and joy of each day.

Discipline yourself to shut the door of your mind on people, events, or things that pull you down, drain your mental or emotional energy, and try to rob you of your promise of the future.

Don’t be naïve – appearance matters. Style comes before substance during first impressions. People judge based on what they see before they find out what’s within.

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

The greatest value in the goal process is the skills, the knowledge, the discipline, and the character you develop in pursuit of your goal.

Courage is important but it shouldn’t be used in making impulsive decisions or taking uncalculated actions.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance.

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

Planning is the process of identifying how best to use your resources to achieve your outcomes.

The person you grow to become in pursuit of a goal makes the journey a memorable experience.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

I am grateful to the Lord for granting me just what I needed.

Your name?" George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about him. King Davit would have no doubt have known half the man's history already."Henry."George took Henry's hand firmly in his own and looked into his eyes. This had to be done delicately, to make sure this Henry did not think him a fool. He tried to think of how his father would do it."Thank you, Henry, for your concern. It is a comfort to know I am so well guarded. I will make sure to praise you when next I speak to the lord general. But for now I think there is no need to worry.

We are blessed when our loved ones know what they have long before they lose us. It’s the same with people. If they are taken for granted long enough, they can be oppressed to the point that they never experience the joys of life. Life on earth becomes a disappointment for them and Heaven becomes their goal. On the other hand, if they are loved and encouraged and appreciated, they will find all kinds of reasons to keep on living! It is never too late to help someone to see that they are valuable and wanted upon the earth.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Gratitude isn’t innate. It’s a habit that has to be learned through practice.

Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success.

The possibility of the dream is our joy.

Don’t try, be happy.

To become successful you have to dream big. Small dreams don’t have the magic to stir up passion and greatness within you.

If we define optimism broadly as the tendency to maintain a positive outlook, then realistic optimism is the tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available "measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social world" (DeGrandpre, 2000, p. 733). With respect to fuzzy meaning, realistic optimism involves enhancing and focusing on the favorable aspects of our experiences. Examples include being lenient in our evaluation of past events, actively appreciating the positive aspects of our current situation, and routinely emphasizing possible opportunities for the future. With respect to fuzzy knowledge, realistic optimism involves hoping, aspiring, and searching for positive experiences while acknowledging what we do not know and accepting what we cannot know.

There’re two ways to fail in life: Choosing not to try or quitting too soon. You were dumb enough to show up so you’re left with one.

Take control of your life and future and become the master of your destiny by making one good decision at a time.

The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.

Even over the sound of a thousand voices...I still can hear my own, only after I listened to hers.

Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.

Joy of giving, joy of receiving.

Before you can positively and passionately pursue what your heart love to do, you must first be grateful to the one who gave you such a heart to love such a thing!

See yourself through your mind’s eye being who you want to be, having what you want to have, and doing what you want to do.

The success equation is complete only when achievement, fulfilment and lifestyle are present.

A grateful heart is good medicine.