When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you are generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes, your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Never be ashamed! There's some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.

Get mocked at for as much as you can, fail as much as you can, but don't quit. Let every mockery, every failure, be a source of inspiration for you to reach for greatness, and that greatness will silence your critics.

This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day--or to celebrate each special day.

Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.

Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.

I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I'm going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Forget yesterday--it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow--you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift--today.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts.

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.

This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

Sometimes we focus so much on what we don't have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos.Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.

Rest and be thankful.

One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.