Positive Quotes - Page 40

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.

I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

The most important thing is to stay positive.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Patience is passion tamed.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

Heresy makes for progress.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

We are always the same age inside.

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.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

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.

We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.