Positive Quotes - Page 11

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

James W. Fulbright

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

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Your imagination has much to do with your life. ... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Nicholas Hilliard

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

Vincent van Gogh

Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

Mary McLeod Bethune

True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.

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

Dorothea Brande

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Catharine Marshall

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Franchise Sagan

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

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

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

Tyne Daly

They never raised a statue to a critic.

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.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

John DePasquale

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

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.

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

One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

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

Maurice Maeterlinck

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.

Anonymous

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

Teresa of Avila.

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

Helen Gurley Brown

The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

Zachary T. Bercovitz

A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.

Margaret Deland

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

Jerry Augustine

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Give me good health and I'll take care of the rest.

You can promote your healing by your thinking.

James E. Sweeney

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

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

Shirley Maclaine

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

Thomas A. Buckner

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.

Be careful of your thoughts they may become words at any moment.

The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Honoré de Balzac

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Jacopo Sannazaro

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

All happiness is in the mind.

Anonymous

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