Positive things happen to positive people. — Sarah Beeny
If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. — Chip Kelly
If your point of view is positive, you will see the challenges in the future as opportunities. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation. — Catherine Booth
Short Positive Expectations Quotes
People in any field rise to the expectations set for them. — Jeff Lawson
Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive. — William Arthur Ward
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious. — Zig Ziglar
Optimism is the true moral courage — Ernest Shackleton
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life. — Joel Benjamin
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst. — Joyce Carol Oates
The secret to happiness is low expectations. — Barry Schwartz
Positive Expectations Image Quotes
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. — Huey Newton
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. — Faith Sullivan
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. — John Steinbeck
Don't expect everyone to understand your journey, especially if they've never had to walk your path.
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
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
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
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
You cant hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
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
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
You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought. — Charles F. Haanel
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. — William Arthur Ward
The worst has happened. The best is next. — Paul George
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — Claude Bissell
God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! — Chip Ingram
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you. — Wayne Dyer
Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men. — Dave Willis
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
Embracing uniqueness and showcasing the beauty of our differences is what I am all about so the fact that my words and image can impact positive change is a perk of this job I never expected I would have. — Ashley Graham
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being. — Eileen Caddy
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations. — Shakti Gawain
You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people. — Joel Osteen
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. — Frederick Salomon Perls
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes. — Roy T. Bennett
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. — John Maynard Keynes
An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire. — Paul J. Meyer
Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen. — Norman Vincent Peale
Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant. — Assata Shakur
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me. — William Barclay
Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get. If you dwell on positive thoughts, you will move in that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life. — Joel Osteen
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. — Viktor E. Frankl
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way. — Leonhard Euler
The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?" — William Arthur Ward
Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. — Richard Wiseman
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. — Norman Vincent Peale
You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. — Joel Osteen
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. — Oscar Wilde
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. — Michael Jordan
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
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom. — Paulo Freire
Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. — Lloyd John Ogilvie
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. — Brian Tracy
What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming. — David Wilcock
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you. — P. M. H. Atwater
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo. — P. G. Wodehouse
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