Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 28

• Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Wind, Law

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.49, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

  Stephen Levine

  Roots, Mind, Doe

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• Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Love Is, Joy

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• Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Pay no attention to what the critics say;
  no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Inspirational, Confidence, Perseverance

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• Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Feel Good, Waiting

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

  Vince Lombardi

  Positive, Believe, Mind

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  The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Color, Soul, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.59, Modern Library

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• In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Attitude, Fall, Dark

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.259

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• Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Ocean, Men

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.177, American Liberty Press

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• People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Zealous, Causes

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• Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Carpe Diem, Looks

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2015

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• You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Persistence, Over You

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.143, Penguin

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• Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

  Ernest Holmes

  Expression, Joy, Boundless

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.203, Penguin

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• I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will start expressing something which is beyond both positive and negative, which is higher than both. So you are not going to be a loser. It is not going to be negative, it is not going to be positive, it is going to be existential.

  Rajneesh

  Being Positive, Negative, Loser

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• Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Goal, Desire

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.102, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Mean, People

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• What was once thought can never be unthought.

  Carl Joachim Friedrich

  Thinking, Ideas

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• Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

  Josiah Royce

  Love, Death, Learning

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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fate

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• Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

  John Wilkins

  Mind, Pleasant, Thinking

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• And I simply decided to be happy again.

  Zeenat Aman

  Thinking, Happy Again, Decided

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