Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 30

• "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

  Tom Lehrer

  Life Is Like, Trying, Times Of Crisis

  "Introduction to 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you stand at the tipping point of your life. And on any one day you can change the future – through the way that you feel.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Opportunity, One Day, New Life

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• So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Roots, Green

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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• If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, Perspective

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

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• I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Winning, Reality, Worst Case Scenario

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.198, Metropolitan Books

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• Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Prayer, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 18, 2017

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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Time, Wrinkles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

  Srikumar Rao

  Tools, Cases, Persons

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

  Armand Hammer

  Would Be, Wonderful, Ifs

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• One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

  Edward Burgess Butler

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

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• We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.

  Shakti Gawain

  Positive, Moving, Way

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life”, p.148, New World Library

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• Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

  Donny Deutsch

  Genius, Realizing, Entitlement

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• And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

  Stedman Graham

  Positive, Giving Up, Simple

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen Every Day”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.

  Ernest Holmes

  Perfect, Needs, Universe

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.116, Penguin

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• I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

  Julianne Hough

  Community, Feelings, Church

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

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• Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Mom, Mother, Doors

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• I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

  Srikumar Rao

  Being Positive, Fans, Negative

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• How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Criticism, Politics, Exam

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

  Publilius Syrus

  Trying, Knows, Can Do

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Getting Older, Age

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• Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Looks, Why Not

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