Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Treat you friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

This quote from Winston Churchill’s mother reminds me of a chapter I read in John C. Maxwell’s book, Make Today Count.  In the chapter on relationships, there are two different things he says that really go along with this:

Value them by their best moments.

I practice the 101 percent principle.  I look for the one thing I admire in them and give them 100 percent encouragement for it.

What I get from all these quotes is to find the positive in a person, even just one thing, and focus on it.  If you focus on that person’s good point(s), it affects your attitude toward them.  After all, positive will beget positive.  It’s all in how we look at people.

I’ve said before I believe in giving people compliments.  These aren’t just any old compliment.  I’ve complimented salespeople when they do a good job with selling me something.  I’ve complimented people who looked very nice.  You can tell they took their time and appearance is important to them.  I compliment my daughter when she does very well in school.

It’s just a way of seeing someone in “their best light” and focusing on that.  Verbalizing it makes them feel good and I feel good for pointing out a positive.  Who knows what ripples any of it will make?

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