1) “In every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit”
– Napolean Hill in his book “Think and Grow Rich
2) “The bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway.”
– Anonymous
3) “You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.”
– Max Lucado
4) “Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young!”
– Luella F. Phean
5) “Your perspective, hope, and attitude are life’s greatest healing powers. There are two people with the same disease: one knows she is healing, appreciates each new day, and has no doubt she will get better. The other focuses only on his sickness, dreads each new day, & knows he will grow more ill. Who do you think will get well faster? Your mind, your heart, and your soul are designed to heal!”
– Anonymous
6) “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
– Steve Jobs
7) “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would astound ourselves.”
-Thomas Edison
8) “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”
– Bob Proctor
9) “On The Other Side
On the other side of hurt is healing
On the other side of darkness is discovery
On the other side of trial is triumph
On the other side grief is growth
On the other side of pain is possibility
On the other side of loss are lessons
On the other side of wounds is wisdom
On the other side of failure is fortitude
On the other side of crying is courage
On the other side of mistakes is maturity
Never give up, and you will never be denied
No matter what the challenge, forge ahead – to the other side.”
– Anonymous
10) “All limitations, like fear is an illusion”
– Michael Jordan at his Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech.
11) “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
– Abraham Lincoln
12) “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein
13) “We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.”
-The Talmud
14) “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
15) “Thoughts are things. As you would guard your body from poison, guard your mind from negative thoughts. Every thought you have is also seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”
– Anonymous
16) “True change is within. Leave the outside as it is.”
-Dalai Lama
17) “You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that: You are as amazing as you let yourself be!”
– Elizabeth Alraune
18) “No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive.”
– Will Smith
19) “If only you knew all the gifts that you bring to others. You would never feel sad again. The world is so much brighter, so much better, because you are in it.”
– D.N. Walsh
20) “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe!”
– Oprah
21) “Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself.
Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change.”
– Anita Moorjani
22) “Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!”
– Marianne Williamson
23) “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
– Benjamin Franklin
24)“The most valuable real estate is your mind. Throw out the squatters, Take back the keys!”
– Anonymous
25) “When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you…..Remember they’re telling you their story, not yours!”
– Cynthia Occelli
26) “The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want!”
– Lyanla Vanzant
27) “H.O.P.E. = Have Only Positive Expectations”
– Anonymous
28) “The BEST revenge is just moving on and getting over it. Don’t give anyone the satisfaction of watching you suffer.”
– Anonymous
29) “Our natural state of being is joy, and it takes so much energy to think negative thoughts, to speak negative words, and to feel miserable. The easy path is good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. Take the easy path!”
– Anonymous
30) “Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered!”
– Tony Robbins
31) “There are people who always look for conflicts. If you meet them, walk away.
The battle they are fighting isn’t with you, it is within themselves!”
– Anonymous
32) “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
than you think, twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined!”
– Anonymous
33) “Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them!”
– Catherine Pulsifer
34) “Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.”
– John Assaraf
35) “If we believe something to be hard…….it will be. If we believe something to be easy…….it will be. In other words, life is a reflection of our beliefs.
As a man thinks, so shall he be. Whatever we human beings choose to believe……………it will be reflected back to us.”
– Anonymous
36) “Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren’t open and your ears aren’t open and your mind’s not open and your heart’s not open — then even though the miracles are there – you’re not!”
– Marianne Williamson
37) “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible!”
– Deepak Chopra
38) “If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!”
– James Van Praagh
39) “Our lives reflect our thoughts. If you don’t like what you see… change your perspective.”
– Anonymous
40) “To attract positive, joyful, and prosperous situations to you, you must be that way yourself.”
– Anonymous
41) “If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!”
– James Van Praagh
42) “The question isn’t who is going to let me…………….it’s who is going to stop me!”
– Anonymous
43) “If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?”
– Anonymous
44) “Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!”
– Shimon Peres, President of Israel
45) “Whatever you’re thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you are worrying, you are planning. When you’re appreciating, you are planning. What are you planning?”
– Abraham-Hicks
46) “The mind constantly strives to turn into reality the things we think about most. Protect your mental health with the same care you give your physical body. Just as your body requires healthy, nourishing foods, and a balanced diet, so does your mind. Make sure you feed it plenty of positive thoughts.
– “The Napoleon Hill Foundation”
47) “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams!”
– Gabriel García Márquez
48) “We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing!”
– Michael Pritchard
49) “Never give up, for that may just be the exact place and time that the tide will turn!”
– Jack Doueck
50) “Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!”
– Cory Booker
51) “Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true!”
– Brian Tracy
52) “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether is you are alive before death!”
– Osho
53) “Our Source is health, abundance, love & prosperity. So why chase after health, abundance, love & prosperity if we come from that Source? We are already those things because that is where we come from!”
– Ophir Avtalyon.
54) “I prayed for change, so I changed my mind. I prayed for guidance and learned to trust myself. I prayed for happiness and realized I am not my ego. I prayed for peace and learned to accept others unconditionally. I prayed for abundance and realized my doubt kept it out. I prayed for wealth and realized it is my health. I prayed for a miracle and realized I am the miracle. I prayed for love and realized it’s always knocking, but I have to allow it in.”
– Jackson Kiddard
55) “You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it. Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of sickness, have it. Those who speak most of poverty, have it. It is Law. It can be no other way… “
– Anonymous
56) “The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous—you attract more of all of those things.”
– Abraham-Hicks
57) “All stress begins with one negative thought. One thought that went unchecked, and then more thoughts came and more, until stress manifested. The effect is stress, but the cause is negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought. No matter what you manifested, you can change it…with one small positive thought and then another!”
– Anonymous
58) “The way you expect life to turn out – is often the way it happens. Expectation always precedes manifestation – so start looking forward to all the good news you are about to receive, all the good things that are on their way to you and all the love the universe is sending you!”
– Dr Jeff Mullan
59) “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any!”
– Alice Walker
60) “Enlightenment is not the process of learning ‘new’ information. It is the process of ‘reminding’ ourselves that the answers are already ‘within our consciousness’. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.”
– Eric Allen
61) “Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”
– W. Clement Stone
62) “Surround yourself with people most like the person you want to become. Stay away from anyone who can or will bring you down.”
– Tom Hopkins
63) “Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows”
– Helen Keller
64) “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
65) “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Christopher Columbus
66) “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
– Helen Keller
67) “Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
68) “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
– Dr Wayne Dyer
69) “The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
– Theodore Rubin
70) “Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.”
– Anonymous
71) “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas A Edison
72) “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
– Anonymous
73) “When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
– Franklin D Roosevelt
74) “Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar
75) “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
76) “The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.”
– Dennis Green
77) “Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
– Dale Carnegie
78) “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
– Christopher Reeve
79) “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
– Peter Drucker
80) “Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
– Donald Gardner
81) “Success is what you attract by the person you become.”
– Jim Rohn
82) “You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.
– Zig Ziglar
83) “You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.”
– Zig Ziglar
84) “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”
– Hubert Humphrey
85) “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
86) “Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn
87) “It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
– Jim Rohn
88) “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
89) “The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”
– Victor Hugo
90) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Waldo Emerson
91) “Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
– Henry van Dyke
92) “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
– Bertrand Russell
93) “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
– Winston Churchill
94) “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
95) “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.”
– Harold B Melchart
96) “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
– Benjamin Mays
97) “More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”
– Anonymous
98) “The poorest people are not the ones without a cent. They’re the ones without dreams.”
– Anonymous
99) “What’s holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back!”
– Ralph Marston
100) “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question!”
– Harun Yahya
101) “If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, you’ll often find that you’re right!”
– Nancy Sathre-Vogel
102) “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– M. Ghandi.
103) “Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.”
– Neale Donald Walsch:
104) “Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven’t even begun to scratch the surface!”
– Marianne Williamson.
105) “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.”
– Audrey Hepburn
106) “I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything…..other than what you allow!”
– Wayne Dyer
107) “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”
– Helen Keller
108) “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ”
– Thomas Jefferson
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My career counselor always told me to stay positive and be happy for the rest of my life. There are lots of opportunities out there waiting for us and we must take advantage of that. If we come across something negative along the road, we must eliminate it by thinking about positive things in our lives. Positive thinking can help us make a good impression to others, especially in behavioral interviews when they see if you are the type of person that is the best fit for the job.
Staying positive will make you not only feel happier but can also make you more productive. I believe if people stay in a positive attitude when facing unhappy situation, you won’t be that affected because you will always think on the bright side.
Positive thinking is something we should all try and implement in our lives. It is something that shapes our personality which eventually impacts our outlook of the world. How you see the world determines how successful of a person you can become.
Staying positive is the way to go. See the glass as half full, not half empty. When you have a positive attitude, you will have better results. I know from personal experiences. When I walked into a test nervous and pessimistic, I did bad on it. However, when I walked in positive, even though I knew that I didn’t know everything and was not 100% ready, I did better since I was calm and not freaking out. By thoughtful process of elimination, I did better than freaking out and giving up on tests.
One quote that really stood out to me was the quote by Thomas Edison in which he stated, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” We have to realize that no one is going to hand us something on a silver platter. An opportunity will not be given to us for no reason. We have to work hard and create an opportunity for ourselves.
I couldn’t agree with this idea any more!! My grandfather always speaks about “The Secret” which was a book and became a movie because of its popularity. It pretty much just emphasizes the power of positive thinking. For example, it says that if you’re trying to get married, only sleep on one side of your bed. This will lead you to positive results!!!
If you are a negative (pessimistic) person people won’t like to hang out around you. Its makes people feel bad and sad when something bad happens.