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Quotes About Positivity

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
~ William Wordsworth
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
~ Anonymous
To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
~ Frederick Langbridge
You can't be envious and happy at the same time.
~ Frank Tyger
Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
~ Peter McWilliams
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.
~ A. A. Willitts
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
~ H. L. Mencken
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
~ Lydia H. Sigourney
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
~ Helen Keller
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
~ Alice Potter
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
~ Norman Cousins
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
~ Leontyne Price
I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you 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.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
~ Jacopo Sannazaro
When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.
~ Michael Hirsch
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
~ Diana Schneider
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
~ Preston Bradley
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
~ Preston Bradley
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
~ Felix Adler
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
~ Mark Twain
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
~ E. M. Bounds