Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 15

• All things are difficult before they are easy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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• How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Mind, Way

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.128, Random House

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• Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Knowing, Safety, Negative

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• Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Attitude, Optimism

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Positive, Positivity

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• Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.

  Suresh Raina

  Positive, Success, Basketball

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• If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Motivational, Positive, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.144, Penguin

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Positive, Positivity, People

  Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.98, Augsburg Books

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• Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Positive, Blessing

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  Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

  Julie Andrews

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Inspirational, Positive, Fear

  "Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2013.

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• We tend to get what we expect.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Clever, Expectations, Addiction

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  If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positive, Trust

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "'Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom,' by Queen Latifah". abcnews.go.com. May 05, 2010.

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• Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 10, 2012

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• What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

  David Robinson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Hope, Encouragement

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• Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.

  Wole Soyinka

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Positivity

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• The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

  Eric Thomas

  Positive, Thinking, Inner Strength

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2012

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• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Confidence, Next

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• Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mind, Habit, Inner Happiness

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• No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Creativity, Creative, Overcoming

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