Positive Thinking Thinking Quotes

Thinking can be done best when you're in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration. ~ Auliq Ice

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

I do not write this in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment of any kind, nor do I have any romantic attachment to suffering as a source of insight or virtue. On the contrary, I would like to see more smiles, more laughter, more hugs, more happiness and, better yet, joy. In my own vision of utopia, there is not only more comfort, and security for everyone - better jobs, health care, and so forth - there are also more parties, festivities, and opportunities for dancing in the streets. Once our basic material needs are met - in my utopia, anyway - life becomes a perpetual celebration in which everyone has a talent to contribute. But we cannot levitate ourselves into that blessed condition by wishing it. We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles, both of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Above all, try something ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing. ~ John C. Maxwell

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~ Thornton Wilder

Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit. ~ Deepak Chopra

Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and
material things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of
circumstance. ~ James Allen

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best. ~ Faraaz Kazi

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. ~ George Eliot

If we lose our optimism, we lose our greatest power to make things better. ~ Gary Edward Gedall

Have a go. Anybody can do it. ~ Alan Parker

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Engage your mind in the bliss of wonder. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for. ~ Zig Ziglar

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you. ~ Michael Ventura

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying. ~ Ingvar Kamprad

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal. ~ J.K. Rowling

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. ~ Pleasefindthis

There is no such thing as positive thinking. Thinking is a substitute for knowing and is always negative. ~ Meir Ezra

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies ... the pain of the leaving can tear us apart.
Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

What was once thought can never be unthought. ~ Carl Joachim Friedrich

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. ~ Oliver Burkeman

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. ~ Robert Collier

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible ~ Cherie Carter-Scott

Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

Find your cause, and then do your work with pride and love - love is such an incredible force for good. It's the most powerful thing in the world. ~ Robin S. Sharma

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ~ John C. Maxwell

Greaness IS for ALL of US. We just need to keep Believing in ourselves and follow our dreams. ~ Zeenat Aman

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself. ~ Esther Hicks

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass! ~ Paul J. Meyer

In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. ~ Leonard Sweet

And I simply decided to be happy again. ~ Zeenat Aman

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you. ~ Wayne Dyer

He was the spark, twinkle and gleam of the stars and she was merely the dark night sky behind that allowed him to shine in contrast. She was stupid for ever thinking otherwise. ~ Ali Harper

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me. ~ Dennis Rodman

I'm much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don't work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it. ~ Myles Horton

I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car ... All I had to do was construct a plant to build it. ~ Ferruccio Lamborghini

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at! ~ Reshma Saujani

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible. ~ Jennifer Aniston

I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it. ~ Clint Eastwood

I think, again, on issues of energy, how are we going to fully utilize our energy resources in this country? What is the role of the federal government in higher education? What kind of justices would you appoint to the Supreme Court, not just because we have a vacancy now, but at least one or two potentially in the next four to eight years? ~ Marco Rubio

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. ~ Jacob Bronowski

I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself. ~ Sergio Garcia

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' ~ Nancy Pelosi

Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this.
"Nice socks."
Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none. ~ Neal Shusterman

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead. ~ Princess Diana

The time has come for us to think of Christianity in a different way. Instead of thinking of God entering human life from outside in the person of Jesus, we have to begin to see human life evolving to the place where it opens itself into an experience of divinity. ~ John Shelby Spong

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one. ~ Larry Wall

I think there are times as believers when we feel entitled and that life shouldn't be hard. We live in this culture of convenience that says we can do everything ourselves and find all the answers on Google. But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race. ~ Kari Jobe

I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an actor - of course you need an agent - but any kind of agency that's selling something for you, you think, "Why can't I sell this myself? It doesn't make sense." ~ Jeff Vespa

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place. ~ Beeban Kidron

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest. ~ Matt Lucas

Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind. ~ Emily Dickinson

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. ~ John Wesley

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work. ~ Chang-rae Lee

She was thinking about how quietly you could grow to depend on a person, almost like a junkie with a habit. ~ Stephen King

Thinking how she loved the very flesh of her. You got used to that with children, love crashing over you like waves. ~ Susie Steiner

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out. ~ Mark Ruffalo

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think. ~ Huey Newton

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. ~ Brian May

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. ~ Shane Smith

The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals ... we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes. ~ Hans Blix

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought
by force of circumstances, not argument
to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. ~ Mark Twain

Scientists are the easiest to fool ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. ~ James P. Hogan

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do. ~ Claude Monet

I love God, whoever he is, and I'd really like to get closer to him. I've been thinking about how one of the simplest ways to get close to a woman is to be good to her children. To be kind and gentle and to pay close attention to the things that make them special. To try to see her children the way she sees her children. And how God made us in his image. How he is the mother and father of all of us. So I wonder if that would be the best way to get closer to him too. By being kind and gentle to his children and noticing all of the things that make them special. So many of us spend our time trying to find God in books, but maybe the simplest way to God is directly through the hearts of his children. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. ~ Betty White

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? ~ Warren Ellis