Positive thinking quotes
| "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." |  |
| Aristotle | |
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." "You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts." "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." |  |
| Napoleon Hill | |
| "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." |  |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." |  |
| John Wooden | |
| "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." |  |
| Walter Bagehot | |
"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." "There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships." |  |
| Norman Vincent Peale | |
| "Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours." |  |
| Dr. Robert Anthony | |
| "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." |  |
| George Bernard Shaw | |
| "We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." |  |
| Jacob Bronowski | |
| "Activity and sadness are incompatible." | |
| Christian Bovee | |
| "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..." | |
| Marie Beyon Ray | |
| "You are what you think about all day long." |  |
| Dr. Robert Schuller | |
| "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." |  |
| William Faulkner | |
| "Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." |  |
| Walt Disney | |
| "You become what you think about." |  |
| Earl Nightingale | |
| "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." |  |
| St. Francis of Assisi | |
| "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." |  |
| Helen Keller | |
| "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." |  |
| Henry David Thoreau | |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." |  |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| "What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully." |  |
| Charles Victor Cherbuliez | |
| "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." |  |
| Richard M. DeVos | |
| "You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." |  |
| Dale Carnegie | |
"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." |  |
| Mark Twain | |
| "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." |  |
| Leo Buscaglia | |
| "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 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 | |
| "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." |  |
| Winston Churchill | |
| "If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." |  |
| David Viscott | |
| "I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards." |  |
| Abraham Lincoln | |
| "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." |  |
| Ella Fitzgerald | |
| "Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals." |  |
| Voltaire | |
| "Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations." |  |
| Federico Fellini | |
| "The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber." |  |
| William Mather Lewis | |
| "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." |  |
| Lao Tzu | |
| "Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." |  |
| Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi | |
| "The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them. " |  |
| Denis Waitley | |
| "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." |  |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| "Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day." |  |
| Will Durant | |
| "Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open." |  |
| Alexander Graham Bell | |
| "Imagination rules the world." |  |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take posession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire." |  |
| Andrew Carnegie | |
| "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." |  |
| John Updike | |
| "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." |  |
| William Jennings Bryan | |
| "It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." |  |
| William Somerset Maugham | |
| "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." |  |
| Ben Stein | |
| "One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything." |  |
| Sir John Gielgud | |
| "Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." |  |
| Robert Collier | |
| "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." |  |
| Milton Berle | |
| "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it." |  |
| William James | |
| "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal." |  |
| Gustave Flaubert | |
| "The first step to becoming is to will it." |  |
| Mother Teresa |
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