Positive Quotes

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.

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

Saint Bartholomew

Failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.

Sir John Walton

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.

Anonymous

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

Gregory Bateson

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.

Anonymous

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.

Anonymous

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Bernard of Clairvaux

How much shall I be changed before I am changed!

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

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Focus is important. Focus on those parts of yourself that are working. Look at yourself as someone whose body is in the process of healing. Concentrate on the positive parts.

I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

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

Mike Todd

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.

Anyone can have an off decade.

Practice being excited.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Knock the "t" off the "can't."

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

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Clear your mind of "can't."

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

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

W Clement Stone

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.

L.M. Montgomery

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.

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

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

René Descartes

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

Shirley Maclaine

Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.

Grenville Kleiser

Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

Jean Bach

We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

They've got us surrounded again the poor bastards.

General Creighton W. Abrams

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

If you act like you're rich you'll get rich.

Adnan Koashoggi

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

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.

Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

General Oliver Prince Smith

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.

Pierre S. DuPont IV

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

Abraham Lincoln

We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.

Sir Andrew Cunningham

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

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