Positive Quotes - Page 37

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.

To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

Music is the soul of language.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

Work while others are wishing.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

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.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.