Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are ~ Joel Osteen
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
– Martin Luther
…I’ve discovered that if you want to reach your
true potential, it’s much more effective to ignite a new passion for life than to dwell on past problems.
Neil A. Fiore
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.
Put from you the belief that ‘I have been wronged’, and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere ~ Zig Ziglar
It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it’s important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends ~Gordon B. Hinckley
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive ~ Betty Eadie
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
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.
The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there ~ Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes ~ William James
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives ~ Shimon Peres (Israeli)
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition ~ Martha Washington
Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions ~ Robin Sharma
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy ~ Nhat Hanh
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective ~ Harvey Mackay
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it ~ Groucho Marx
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
if you look for the positives you’ll find them. If you look for the negatives you’ll find them. You get to choose how happy your life will be
if you’re not sure what to do with your day or with the next hour or the next 5 minutes, do something positive. Do something that makes the world a better place. Here are five suggestions that take 2 minutes
If you want to be happy, healthy and wise, fill your mind with positive, healthy, wise ideas everyday.
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
Roy T. Bennett
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
Roy T. Bennett
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.
Roy T. Bennett
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordan
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity, then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about ~ Henrik Edberg
I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.” – Russell Wilson
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, “He’s so big, we can never kill him.” But David looked at the same giant and thought, “He’s so big, I can’t miss him.
You can live each day in a world filled with ‘problems,’ or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions…eager for you to find them. The decision is yours…both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create
Michael McMillian
Don’t let someone else choose it for you ~ Dale Carnegie
Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same
Francesca Reigler
When you’re Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don’t need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
It’s easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way…It’s when difficult challenges rise before us…that attitude becomes the difference maker.
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy ~ Robert H. Schuller
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive ~ Betty Eadie
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A “you can do it” when things are tough.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind ~ Emmet Fox
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way ~ Viktor E. Frankl
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.
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative ~ W. Clement Stone
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.
It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.” – Baker Mayfield
The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.” – Paulo Coelho
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” – Pat Riley
Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.”
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”- Michael Jordan
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”- Robert H. Schuller
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.”- Wade Boggs
If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.” – Shari Arison
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.” – Nick Saban
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
— John F. Kennedy
It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” – Betty White