Positive Momentum Quotes

Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created. ~ Jude Bijou

Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to "be in the right place at the right time," there isn't anything we can't do, be, or attain. ~ Daniel Willey

Try this exercise:

Make a list of whatever is going wrong in your life, from the biggest events to the most trivial items, and then beside that list write down everything and everyone you want to blame for that particular problem. For instance, let's say you think you're too fat. If you want to blame it on McDonald's cheeseburgers, then write that down. Perhaps you just don't normally feel well. If you want to blame that feeling on a bad doctor or on the pollen in the air, then write that down. Maybe you can't find a suitable partner. If you want to blame that on the argument that "men are creeps," then write that down.

Now look at your list. Ask yourself if you are any different now that you know exactly what or who to blame, and then ask yourself if that has helped you come up with a more constructive program to solve your problems.

Not a very positive picture, is it? Wouldn't it be better simply to decide to eliminate all blame from your life and focus instead on what you can do to rid yourself of the unhappiness that afflicts you? Wouldn't it be better to evaluate all the stones that you are carrying in your own bag of life--your stones of resentment, anger, and spite?

Blaming will not change you. It only gives you some shallow justification for continuing to look outside yourself, rather than turning inward and rebuilding your life. ~ Art E. Berg

Make genuine love the foundation life is here to enjoy in the most positive ways,not to copy others but to be an original of you. ~ Marcelle Hinkson

Rainbows are yesterday's storm... ~ Nanette L. Avery

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person. ~ Kapil Dev

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation. ~ Rajneesh

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity. ~ Edwin Gaustad

I woke in bed, sweating and breathing heavily. It was the third time I'd had this nightmare: reliving that horrible feeling of falling, out of control, toward the ground.
I was now on month two of just lying there prone, supposedly recovering. But I wasn't getting any better.
In fact, if anything, my back felt worse.
I couldn't move and was getting angrier and angrier inside. Angry at myself; angry at everything.
I was angry because I was shit-scared.
My plans, my dreams for the future hung in shreds. Nothing was certain any more. I didn't know if I'd be able to stay with the SAS. I didn't even know if I'd recover at all.
Lying unable to move, sweating with frustration, my way of escaping was in my mind.
I still had so much that I dreamt of doing.
I looked around my bedroom, and the old picture I had of Mount Everest seemed to peer down.
Dad's and my crazy dream.
It had become what so many dreams become--just that--nothing more, nothing less.
Covered in dust. Never a reality.
And Everest felt further beyond the realms of possibility than ever.
Weeks later, and still in my brace, I struggled over to the picture and took it down.
People often say to me that I must have been so positive to recover from a broken back, but that would be a lie. It was the darkest, most horrible time I can remember.
I had lost my sparkle and spirit, and that is so much of who I am.
And once you lost that spirit, it is ha ~ Bear Grylls

Be Positive in Life and all Colors will Find You.
Jan Jansen ~ Jan Jansen

Think of what is pure. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you. ~ Marlene Dietrich

Drizzt swung a long and heavy halberd, a polearm more than twice his height, in a slow arc. For all of Drizzt's attempts to keep the weapon under control, its momentum spun his tiny frame right to the ground. ~ R.A. Salvatore

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. ~ Robert B. Laughlin

Master Stanley used to tell me that what I was doing was nowhere near as important as the place within myself from where I was doing it. For example, a person could be teaching others out of a selfless motive, or out of a desire for power or glory: the former had a positive impact on the world, whereas the latter had a negative impact, even though the same identical teaching may have been imparted. "It's the spirit that's important," he would say. "It's even more important than the act. Going to work in a gas station and providing for your family out of love is more important than creating a mighty religious work out of a desire for glory or power. ~ Thom Hartmann

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return. ~ Ann Bancroft

Rise, Rise.
Dream, Dream.
Shine, Shine. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training. ~ Raymond Chandler

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ~ Nadia Boulanger

Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it. ~ Sheryl Swoopes

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. ~ Robert McKee

I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force. ~ Jay Maisel

LIBERATION FROM THOUGHTS
Where negative thoughts end, positive thoughts begin. Where positive thoughts end, a happy thought begins. Where happy thoughts end, the thoughtless state is reveled... which leads to self Realisation. ~ Sirshree

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure. ~ Denis Waitley

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off. ~ RuPaul

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am. ~ Luther Burbank

You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup. ~ Doug Benson

Make sure you stand firm on the solid rock. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Doublespeak that calls a bribe a "rebate" or "after sales service," the illegal overthrow of a legitimate government "destabilizing a government," and lies "strategic misrepresentations" is language that avoids responsibility, that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, something unpleasant appear attractive, language that only appears to communicate. It's language designed to alter our perception of reality and corrupt our thinking. Ultimately, doublespeak breeds suspicion, cynicism, distrust and, hostility. ~ William D. Lutz

I can't think of anything worse than having to describe myself. I'd rather write about something more positive. ~ Lynda Mullaly Hunt

JUST FOR TODAY, I will live through this day only. I will not brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I will not set far-reaching goals or try to overcome all of my problems at once.

I know that I can do something for 24 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will be happy. I will not dwell on thoughts that depress me. If my mind fills with clouds, I will chase them away and fill it with sunshine.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will accept what is. I will face reality. I will correct those things that I can correct and accept those I cannot.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will improve my mind. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. I will not be a mental loafer.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will make a conscious effort to be agreeable. I will be kind and courteous to those who cross my path, and I'll not speak ill of others. I will improve my appearance, speak softly, and not interrupt when someone else is talking. Just for today, I will refrain from improving anybody but myself.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will do something positive to improve my health. If I'm a smoker, I'll quit. If I'm overweight, I will eat healthfully -- if only for today. And not only that, I will get off the couch and take a brisk walk, even if it's only around the block.

JUST FOR TODAY, I will gather the courage to do what is right and take the responsibility for my own actions. ~ Abigail Van Buren

Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health. ~ Katherine Schwarzenegger

We write our deepest thoughts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am sober, grounded, focused, I'm writing again, I like where I am. I'm real positive and I got this great family that came along with my wife - I'm happily married and she's a great part of me that was missing - and I feel real good. ~ Joe Walsh

A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach. ~ Brian Michael Good