Quotes about Positivity

If you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a life time.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

Be of good heart.

But if we keep to the positive fact of wanting to produce and to be something, then we can talk over accomplished facts, when it cannot be avoided, without getting angry, even if they might concern, or stand in direct relation with, the Goupils or our family. Besides, these questions are between you and me for a better understanding of the situation, and not out of spite.