Quotes on Positive

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The best way out is always through.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.