Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 25

• It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Positive, Athlete

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• Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Positive, Happiness, Make You Happy

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.65, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

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• Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Positive, Work, Adversity

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• The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Positive, Thinking, World

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• Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

  Alan Alda

  Positive Attitude, People, Laughing

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• It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

  Bill Gates

  Laughing, Computer, Hard

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Love Is, Infinite

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• Last night
  I begged the Wise One to tell me
  the secret of the world.
  Gently, gently, he whispered,
  "Be quiet,
  the secret cannot be spoken,
  It is wrapped in silence."

  Rumi

  Wise, Night, Silence

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• If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

  Richard DeVos

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Giving

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• It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

  George Will

  Wise, Ordinary, Persons

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

  "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 165, 1983.

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• No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

  Demi Lovato

  Tunnels, Light, Think Positive

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Might, Language

  Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 14 (1871 - 1872)

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• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Kindness, Life Lesson

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.165, 谷月社

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• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Wisdom of a forefather" by Colorado State University, February 11, 2009.

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that's just for me and I won't worry about what I should be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest.

  Melody Beattie

  Fun, Worry, Enjoy Life

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• We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Reflection, Want, Our Relationship

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2016

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• Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

  John Templeton

  Kindness, Years, Different

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.182, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

  Kobi Yamada

  Waiting, Wish, Arms

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• Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Yield, Psychology, Being Positive

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• ...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Philosophy, Positive Attitude, Ideas

  "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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