This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Friday, December 5, 2008

Attitude (positive thinking) Quotes

1. Your attitude determines your altitude. - Unknown

2. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it. - Norman Vincent Peale

3. Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. - Thomas Fuller 

4. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. - Unknown

5. One ship sails East, 
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
'Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

6. New day - new destiny. - Bulgarian proverb

7. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. - Unknown

8. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. - Unknown

9. If it's to be, it's up to me. - Logan Pearsall

10. Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

11. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

12. You’re never beat until you quit. - Unknown

13. Nothing is impossible unless you agree that it is. - Unknown

14. They can conquer who believe they can. - Virgil

15. Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

16. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

17. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - Art Linkletter

18. We will either find a way, or make one. - Hannibal

19. It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

20. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes ... - Reverend Jesse Jackson

22. I don't believe in pessimism. - Clint Eastwood

23. We are what we believe we are. - Benjamin N. Cardozo

24. One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. - Henry Moore

25. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - ZIGGY, cartoon character by Tom Wilson

26. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. - Helen Keller

27. If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. - Yiddish proverb

28. Knock the “t” off the “can’t”. - George Reeves

29. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

30. Just do your best today and tomorrow will come... tomorrow’s going to be a busy day, a happy day. - Helen Boehm

31. Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale

32. The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

33. Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?”
-Unknown

34. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. - Charles Swindoll

35. It's not what happens to you that matters, what matters most is how you choose to respond. - Dan Green

36. The Land of Opportunity is an attitude. - BJ Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt

37. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Dale Carnegie

38. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller

39. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. - Mae West

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

41. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. - Wilfred Peterson

42. Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. - Philip Butler

43. Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Nicholas Murray Butler

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

45. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. - Antoine de Saint Exupery

46. Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
- Unknown

47. You can either grumble because roses have thorns or you can choose to be thankful because thorns have roses. The choice is yours. - Unknown

48. 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

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

50. Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and the other one the stars. - Frederick Langbridge

51. The mind is like a river; upon its waters thoughts float through in a constant procession every conscious moment. You stand on a bridge over it and can stop and turn back any thought that comes along. The art of contentment is to let no thought pass that is going to disturb you. - Dr. Frank Crane

52. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes, Jr.

53. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius

54. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. - Wayne Dyer

55. Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. - Og Mandino

56. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. - Brian Tracy

57. A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. - Patricia Neal

58. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

59. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell

60. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. - Shirley MacLaine

62. A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience. - Grant Fairley

63. You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. - Zig Ziglar

64. You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. - Dr. Jerome Brunner

65. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. - Willis R. Whitney

66. I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. - Sugar Ray Robinson

67. The words “I am…” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. - A.L. Kitselman

68. Fake feeling good…. You’re going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you’ll actually start feeling happier. - Jean Bach

69. You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I’m of the belief that you should fight them. - Dr. Ruth Westheimer

70. When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. - Horace Rutledge

71. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

72. Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. - Charles Swindoll

73. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. - Norman Vincent Peale

74. Be pleasant every morning until ten o’clock. The rest of the day will take care of itself. - Col. William C. Hunter

75. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! - Mclandburgh Wilson

76. 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. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. - Charles Swindoll

77. A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. - Earl Nightingale

78. Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. - Tom Blandi

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

80. Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference. - Theodore Roosevelt

81. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson

82. I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. - Pearl S. Buck

83. I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington

84. 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. - Pat Riley

85. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. - Charles Swindoll

86. Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it. - Kitty Kelley

87. Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Nicholas Murray Butler

88. The biggest quality in successful people, I think, is an impatience with negative thinking. - Edward McCabe

89. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. - Abraham Lincoln

90. A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anywhere until you change it. - Unknown

91. You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to those situations. - Zig Ziglar

92. The right attitude rarely leads to the wrong action. - Tom Ziglar

93. The only thing you can control in this world is your attitude. - Unknown

94. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. - Wayne W. Dyer

95. A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience. - Grant Fairley

96. 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

97. It takes no more effort to expect the best, than to fear for the worst. It’s healthier, more productive, and a lot more fun. - Philip Hambert

98. 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

99. Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

100. Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success. - T. Harv Eker

101. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, what are you going to do about it? - Les Brown

102. An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...the truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

103. Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy

104. You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. - Robert Anthony

105. Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. - Orison Swett Marden

106. Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. - W.N. Rieger

107. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good. - Rhonda Byrne

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