Be Positive Quotes
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.
Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Your imagination has much to do with your life. ... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.
This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.
It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.
If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Carry on carry on for the men and boys are gone But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.