The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Author Unknown I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl. There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson 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 men, charity.
Benjamin Franklin Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The College Blue Book.
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitable bring about right results.
James Allen
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Edward Rickenbacker
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Denis Waitley
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.
James Allen A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Gustav Jung
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
Cavett Robert Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Harriet Beecher Stowe Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing.
Rosemarie Rossetti If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm X The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
T.S. Eliot There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Vivekananda If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
Irving Berlin
I Got the Sun in the Morning.
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is," said Christopher Robin.
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
A.A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner.
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
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Anna Lee Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright
Bob Marley
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
The Bible, John 16:24 There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.
Nicole Kidman
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
Annie Gottlier One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
Lance Armstrong
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Swedish Proverb If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Helen MacInness
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Cuban Proverb
Ralph Marston
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains,
And we never even know we have the key.
The Eagles
From their song, Already Gone.
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
Author Unknown When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.
Author Unknown
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Zig Ziglar The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Author Unknown I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
Author Unknown
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
Henry Moore
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Allen Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Author Unknown
Sometimes attributed to Buddha.
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
Bertrand Russell That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
George Foreman
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie Go with the best you've got.
Al Lopez
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William J. Bennett
The Book of Virtues. With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!
Charles R. Swindoll
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
Teilhard de Chardin Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
Annette Goodheart Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
Vince Lombardi The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo F. Buscaglia Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Proverb
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does.
Margaret Mead
The general outlook is not that the person has died but that the person has lived.
William Buchanan Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Elbert Hubbard For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
Joey Tolbert An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
Dr. Joyce Brothers Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
Norman Cousins In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Joe Clark In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Lyrical and Critical Essays.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
J. Brotherton I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot . . . when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
John Keats
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
Bill Gates Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Amy Lowell Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
Kenneth H. Blanchard To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
Handbook to Higher Consciousness.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!
Bob Marley
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
It Couldn't Be Done. My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered
Daniel Webster Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
There is no Heaven, there is no Hell;
These are the dreams of baby minds;
Tools of the wily Fetisheer,
To fright the fools his cunning blinds.
Richard Francis Burton
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope
Bill Meyer The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Italian Proverb It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.
Anwar Ibrahim
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life's Little Instruction Book
Don't let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today.
Nandina Morris
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Foster's Law No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
Buddhist Proverb Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicholas Chamfort Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein.
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.
J. Andrew Helt
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
Will Foley Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Alex Karras You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.
Carrie Latet The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
Walt Whitman Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook. I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
Voltaire Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.
Glorie Abelhas
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
Oswald Avery
Eli Khamarov
Surviving on Planet Reebok. There's a saying among prospectors: Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.
Robert Flaherty Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Francis Rabelais
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are.
Frederick L. Collins I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. Chesterton
On Running After One's Hat, All Things Considered. We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook. Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian Proverb
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
Thornton Wilder 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
Susan Longacre
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well. A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body the wishbone.
Robert Frost True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt.
Dorothy Day The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick Faber
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
Henri Frédéric Amiel Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
English Proverb What is possible? What you will.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Margot Asquith
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...
William Cowper Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
David Ambrose The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
Antonio Porchia
Voces, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin.
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
Pearl Bailey
Mind is everything. Muscle pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worship, The Conduct of Life. Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
Brooks Atkinson
Once Around the Sun.
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
Leo Tolstoy
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjold
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Antonius It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect 30% of medicine is showbiz.
Ronald Spark
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