In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. — A. Philip Randolph
One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. — Faith Sullivan
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Positive Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. — William Penn
The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. — Ray Wylie Hubbard
Expect nothing, appreciate everything.
Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today. — Joel Osteen
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. — Sylvia Plath
To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better. — Tariq Ramadan
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
Good is not good, when better is expected. — Thomas Fuller
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. — Richard Dawkins
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. — Etty Hillesum
Positive Outlook Quotes
Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile. — Dan Buettner
I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great. — Russell Wilson
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. — J. Sidlow Baxter
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect. — Barbara Fredrickson
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. — Robert Breault
As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age. — Kate Winslet
We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men. — Greg L. Bahnsen
Positive Hopeful Quotes
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — Helen Keller
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela
It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another. — Elizabeth Taylor
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous. — Alexander Pushkin
Positive Things Quotes
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone. — St. Catherine of Siena
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. — Leo Buscaglia
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. — Conor McGregor
Instead of trying to change another person's behavior, try changing the way you react. Acceptance without expectations is less stressful.
Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell
Positive Day Quotes
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. — Paulo Coelho
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made. — Brock Lesnar
Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day
you will reach your goal. — Ayrton Senna
Positive Success Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. — Dupree Jordan
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. — John C. Maxwell
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Positive Life Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. — Drake
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
Positive Future Quotes
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. — Kgalema Motlanthe
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair. — William James
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal. — Victor Hugo
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
And focus intelligently on the present.
This is the best way of ensuring a positive future. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. — Robin Sharma
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. — Alice Walker
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. — Lao Tzu
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson
Positive Thoughts Quotes
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions — Norman Vincent Peale
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations. — John Coltrane
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day — Deepak Chopra
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
Positive Thinking Quotes
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. — Aaron Rose
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path! — Maya Angelou
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. — Bill Gates
Hopes And Expectations Quotes
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. — Charles Dickens
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! — Jerry Garcia
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ. — D. James Kennedy
Unhappiness happens when your reality does not match your hopes and expectations. — Mo Gawdat
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. — John F. Kennedy
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end. — Ramana Maharshi
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life. — Irina Tweedie
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh
You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. — Tom Petty
What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons. — Gene Wilder
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways. — Saint John Chrysostom
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