Positive Quotes - Page 13

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

Henry David Thoreau

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you laugh at it and with it and it is a jolly kind companion.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Katherine Mansfield

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Lydia H. Sigourney

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

Andrew Carnegie

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive nurturing and healing thoughts.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.

Victoria

To think of losing is to lose already.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

WW. Ziege

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

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Candice M. Pope

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.

Louisa May Alcott

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always she had to admit interesting.

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

Fulton J. Sheen

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.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

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

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.

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.

Margaret Drabble

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.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

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

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.

James Lane Allen

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.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

I think there is a 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.

Muriel Rukeyser

Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Man is what he believes.

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

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

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

We are what we believe we are.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.

Douglas Malloch

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Katherine Paterson

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

When you look at the world in a narrow way how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad generous friendly spirit what wonderful people you find in it.

Horace Rutledge

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Hyemeyohsts Storm

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Lyman Lloyd Bryson

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