Positive Quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Man is what he believes.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake...

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

The greatest 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.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

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

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

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

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

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

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Patience is passion tamed.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

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

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Failure is impossible.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Children need models rather than critics.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Practice being excited.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Great hopes make great men.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

We are what we believe we are.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to — this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.

The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

I am here to put out a positive athlete,

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.