Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 5

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

We tend to get what we expect.

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.

We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

You become what you think about most of the time.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.