positive thinking quotes

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Our intention creates our reality.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I’m a genetic optimist.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Few people realize that luck is created.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I think that I’m perfect.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.