Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 7

I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will start expressing something which is beyond both positive and negative, which is higher than both. So you are not going to be a loser. It is not going to be negative, it is not going to be positive, it is going to be existential.

Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Every time you think you can’t do something... someone else thinks they can.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

He who limps is still walking.

Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you stand at the tipping point of your life. And on any one day you can change the future – through the way that you feel.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Positive thinking breeds success.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind.