Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 18

• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Winning, Expectations

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2015

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• Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

  Gautama Buddha

  Thank You, Uplifting, Thankful

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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Firsts, Steps

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• When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Positive, Thinking, Practice

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• We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

  Susan Jeffers

  Believe, Negative, Taught

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.127, Random House

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• My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Ducks, Water, Negativity

  Source: fierth.com

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• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Dream, Winning

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• All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Light

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• Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

  Conrad Dobler

  Attitude, Skills, Crap

  "Conrad Dobler: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Believe, People

  "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2006.

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• Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.

  Larry Dossey

  Attitude, Impact, Placebo Effect

  Larry Dossey (2009). “Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Opportunity, Thinking

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Training, Use, Ability

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 14, 2014

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• Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

  Seth Godin

  Negative, Guarantees, Results

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• If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Kids, Ideas

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Purpose, Used, Force

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• I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiring, Success, Hero

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

  Voltaire

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

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• If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Attitude, Opportunity, Decision

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• We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Positive, Positivity, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.30, Advaita Ashrama

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• The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Doe, Levels

  Shakti Gawain (2016). “Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life”, p.19, New World Library

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• Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

  Joel Osteen

  Positivity, Choices, Waiting

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