Quotes on Positive Thinking

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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 happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.