177 Positive Thinking Quotes

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Famous Positive Thinking Quotes

Positive thoughts lead to positive results. — Maria V. Snyder

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. — Zig Ziglar

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

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. — Ron Jaworski

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively. — Norman Vincent Peale

The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when nothing in the environment supports you. — Tony Robbins

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson

Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. — Roy T. Bennett

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. — Bruce Lee

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — Sugar Ray Robinson

Think BIG and always focus on the positive — Donald Trump

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. — Roger Federer

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt. — Joyce Meyer

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done. — Napoleon Hill

Positive things happen to positive people. — Sarah Beeny

Short Positive Thinking Quotes

  • A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. — Norman Vincent Peale
  • One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations. — John Coltrane
  • One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Joubert Botha
  • A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life. — Joel Benjamin
  • If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones. — Orrin Woodward
  • An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. — Brian Tracy
  • The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
  • Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. — Conor McGregor
  • Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life. — Bryant H. McGill
  • Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking. — Jimmy Cliff

Top 10 Positive Thinking Quotes

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

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

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

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big. — Donald Trump

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Positive Thinking Image Quotes

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. - Aaron Rose quote

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. — Aaron Rose

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. - Nora Ephron quote

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. - Mary Tyler Moore quote

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. — Mary Tyler Moore

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes. - Douglas Malloch quote

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes. — Douglas Malloch

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Tony Robbins quote

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. — Tony Robbins

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. - Iyanla Vanzant quote

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. — Iyanla Vanzant

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Emanuel Swedenborg quote

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. — Emanuel Swedenborg

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. - William Bennett quote

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. — William Bennett

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. - Jim Rohn quote

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. — Jim Rohn

Positive thinking quote Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.

The Power Of Positive Thinking Quotes

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

What you think you become. — Buddha

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. - Helen Keller

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — Helen Keller

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. — Og Mandino

Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative. — Barbara Fredrickson

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter — Joyce Meyer

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do? — Ronnie Shakes

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon. — Alan Loy McGinnis

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. — Joseph Campbell

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow. — Michelle Akers

Deep Positive Thinking Quotes

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. — Ralph Marston

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever. — Danielle Steel

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. — Nhat Hanh

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. — Josiah Royce

If we own the story then we can write the ending. — Brené Brown

I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Positive Thinking Attitude Quotes

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

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

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. — Imelda Staunton

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. — Amy Adams

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. — Myles Munroe

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. - Robert H. Schuller

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. — Robert H. Schuller

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Paul Tournier

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S. Truman

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it - Mary Engelbreit

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit

Positive Thinking And Attitude Quotes

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another. - Elizabeth Taylor

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another. — Elizabeth Taylor

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. — Tracee Ellis Ross

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. — Helen Clark MacInnes

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - John C. Maxwell

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. — John C. Maxwell

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. — David Robinson

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump

If you think you can't, you're right. - Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz

Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." - Sean Stephenson

If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't." — Sean Stephenson

Power Of Positive Thinking Quotes

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities. — Zig Ziglar

If you devote yourself to positivity, positivity will devote itself to you. — Mod Sun

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. — Ralph Marston

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. — Og Mandino

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. — Joseph Sugarman

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. — Seth Godin

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought. — Emile Coue

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so. — Shakti Gawain

The past has no power over the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle

Positive Thinking In Life Quotes

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

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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. — Maya Angelou

I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself." — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. — Rabindranath Tagore

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them. — Tony Robbins

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success. — Randy Gage

Positive Thinking Success Quotes

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. — Robert Orben

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Be so good they can't ignore you. — Steve Martin

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world. — H. M. Tomlinson

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. — Eddie Rickenbacker

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible. — Judith Regan

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale

You become what you think about — Napoleon Hill

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. — W. Clement Stone

Positive Thinking Images Quotes

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine. — Drake

I see light at the end of the tunnel. — Walt Whitman Rostow

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language. — Anne Geddes

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train. — Margaret Smith

Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire. — Mark Victor Hansen

Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you! — Bob Proctor

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail

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

I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people. — William S. Burroughs

Positive Thoughts Quotes

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. — Robert H. Schuller

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

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

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

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. - Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. — Mahatma Gandhi

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox

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

Thinking Positive Thoughts Quotes

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

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts. — Emmet Fox

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Buddha

It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are? — Frank Zappa

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy. — Rhonda Byrne

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests. — John Assaraf

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem — Stephen Covey

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively . — Angelo Dundee

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More Positive Thinking Quotes

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

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

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

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. — Bill Gates

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