Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
— Joel Osteen
Unforgettable Having A Positive Attitude quotations
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

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.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic.
Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.
Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

I have a very positive attitude in life.
My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.
I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.
You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"
It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.
There are so many negatives in our society.
To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.
Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is the number of people it touches, many times in ways you'll never know.