quotes about Positive Thinking
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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
-- Aaron RoseSource : "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
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No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.
-- Adele Scheele -
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..
-- Adyashanti -
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
-- Adyashanti -
People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.
-- Alan Alda -
Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.
-- Albert E Cliffe -
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Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
-- Albert Ellis -
Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.
-- Alexander GustafssonSource : "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.
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Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
-- Allen KleinSource : "Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul". Book by Candia L Sanders, p. 125, 2013.
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Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change.
-- Anita MoorjaniSource : FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Jun 17, 2012
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
-- Ariel Gore -
To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.
-- Armand Hammer -
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
-- Arnold BennettSource : Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc
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Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
-- Arnold SchwarzeneggerSource : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
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.
-- Ayn Rand -
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We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.
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There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory' ...
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
-- Bill Meyer -
Constantly look for the good in people and in situations. When you find it, tell the person.
-- Bob Proctor -
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Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!
-- Bob Proctor -
In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
-- Bobby McFerrinSource : Song: Don't Worry Be Happy
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Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.
-- Brené BrownSource : "Brené Brown's Top 4 Life Lessons". www.oprah.com.
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Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
-- Brennan Manning -
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
-- Brian Tracy -
You become what you think about most of the time.
-- Brian Tracy -
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.
-- Brian Weiss -
Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
What was once thought can never be unthought.
-- Carl Joachim Friedrich -
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People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
-- Christopher BarzakSource : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam
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Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
-- Cory BookerSource : FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Feb 21, 2012
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Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
-- Cuba Gooding, Jr. -
True change is within; leave the outside as it is.
-- Dalai Lama -
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
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Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.
-- Danielle SteelSource : Danielle Steel (2009). “The Gift”, p.91, Random House
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Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution.
-- David J. Schwartz -
There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]
-- David Mason -
While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.
-- David Spangler -
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Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
-- Deepak Chopra -
My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life.
-- Donna Fargo -
Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.
-- Donny Deutsch -
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There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.
-- Douglas BlochSource : Douglas Bloch (1988). “Words That Heal: Affirmations and Meditations for Daily Living”, p.41, BookBaby
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It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.
-- Douglas Pagels -
I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker -
He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
-- Edgar GuestSource : Edgar Albert Guest (1919). “The Path to Home ; When Day is Done”
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
-- Edward Burgess Butler -
The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.
-- Emile CoueSource : Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”
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Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.
-- Emile Coue -
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Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.
-- Eric Allen -
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
-- Frank CapraSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
-- Galen Starr Ross -
...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
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We only get to play this game one time, one life.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
-- George Eliot -
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
-- George LucasSource : Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.
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A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
-- George S. Patton -
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
-- George WillSource : George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone
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We are always the same age inside.
-- Gertrude SteinSource : "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.
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What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
-- Harvey Mackay -
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
-- Henri Matisse -
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
-- Henry Ford -
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I intend to be, the richest man in the world.
-- Howard Hughes -
I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
-- Ingvar KampradSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
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What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
-- J. K. Rowling -
Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.
-- J. P. Blake -
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
-- J. William Fulbright -
Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.
-- Jackie Olson -
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It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
-- James Bovard -
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
-- James JoyceSource : James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics
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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.
-- James Lane Allen -
If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!
-- James Van Praagh -