Cameron C. Taylor QUOTES

1 " Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad things happen, they are sad. If good things happen, they are happy. They are simply a product of their environment. Successful people, on the other hand, are more like a thermostat. Even if their environment is negative, they choose to be positive. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

2 " You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

3 " There is great power in goals and dreams. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

4 " What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , Does Your Bag Have Holes?: 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

5 " Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

6 " We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we will respond. As we understand our power to choose, we see that we are in control. Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing, but a result of our choices. We have the ability to determine the kind of life we want to live and the type of person we wish to be. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

7 " Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , Does Your Bag Have Holes?: 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

8 " Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , Does Your Bag Have Holes?: 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

9 " Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

10 " So often we look for a magic secret or new technique that will produce tremendous returns and results with little or no work. Those seeking this magic secret will never find it—for the secret to success is to continually live and apply basic, simple fundamentals over a long period of time. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers, Volume II

11 " Gandhi once said, “There are 999 who believe in honesty for every honest man. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

12 " Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India. At the time of his birth, India had been ruled by the English for over 200 years. “There was nothing unusual about the boy Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, expect perhaps that he was very, very shy. He had no unusual talent, and went through school as a somewhat less than average student.”14 "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

13 " The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” –Michelangelo "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

14 " Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?” -Gary Ryan Blair "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

15 " Myth—God Will Rescue Me Following 40 days of fasting, Jesus was tempted three times by Satan. The second temptation is recorded in the New Testament as follows, “Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”80 Satan’s temptation was an appeal to man’s desire to be miraculously delivered from the consequences of an action. We tend to seek divine intervention to rescue us from consequences with little or no effort on our part. This tendency was illustrated by Ancient Greek dramatists’ use of the “deus ex machina,” meaning “God from a machine.” This was a machine in which actors portraying the gods would suddenly be lowered on the scene to save the mortal characters from the consequences of their choices. Satan’s use of this temptation continues today and can easily be seen manifested by the student who fails to study and then prays for an “A” during the examination, or the person who violated the divine laws of health and then prays for deliverance from resulting sickness or the person who purchases an expensive plasma screen television and then prays for help to pay the rent. We also see this tendency manifested by those who have incurred larges amounts of debt and then seeks to be delivered from the bondage and obligation of repayment through bankruptcy, or those who seek deliverance from a disease of choice by taking a pill to treat the symptoms instead of changing the behavior that causes the symptoms. We should respond to such temptations as did the Savior by saying, “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”81 We must accept responsibility, which is the willingness and ability to recognize and accept the consequences of our actions "

― Cameron C. Taylor , Does Your Bag Have Holes?: 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

16 " Churchill would not permit contingency planning for failure, knowing it would inevitably leak out and breed pessimism. "

― Cameron C. Taylor , 8 Attributes of Great Achievers