Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 14

Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

You just believe in positive thinking. And you can do a lot more with the body than you think you can.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.

You create a good future by creating a good present.

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.