Positive Quotes - Page 12

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

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Alain-Rene Lesage

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.

Henry B. Wilson

Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Lucan

The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

James Lane Allen

God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.

Anna Delaney Peale

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James A. Farley

As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

Henry H. Buckley

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

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

George Matthew Adams

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

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.

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

Federico Fellini

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Lane Allen

Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.

William Ellery Channing

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

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.

A man's life is what his thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Buddha

I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you 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.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.

Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.

Orison Swett Marden

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

Dr. Frank Crane

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Zora Neale Hurston

When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Colleen C. Barrett

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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

Margaret Atwood

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

English Proverb

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

Jean de La Fontaine

Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.

Mary Church Terrell

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