Avis Business Services - Positive Quotes Continued

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

--William Feather

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

--Aristotle

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

--Marilyn vos Savant

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

--Bernard Meltzer

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

--Dorothea Brande

Those who live no more, whom we loved, echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts.

--Richard Fife

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

--Mark Twain

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

--Benjamin Jowett

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

--Booker T. Washington

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

--Samuel Johnson

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

--Sir William Arthur

Courage is resistance to fear and mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

--Mark Twain

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated--it is finished when it surrenders.

--Ben Stein

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.

--Paul J. Meyer