Positive quotes – the kick-start to positive thinking
Positive quotes is the sort of nourishing food your brain craves when seeking an optimistic view towards your life.
You may be wondering what can come from reading or listening to these quotes but it is a well known fact the positive thinking begins with a change or shift in belief which is then manifested in your attitude or behaviour.
Positive quotes can be the best mechanism to begin this transformation and if repeated or listened to on a regular basis the quotes themselves can and will begin to shape your destiny.
This is extremely powerful magic.
The hard part comes for most people in the belief stage of events. Belief is the true key to any achievement, dream, ambition or goal in life. Without belief we are merely prisoners to a pre-shaped destiny. This belief is something we can all learn to aspire to and is open to everybody.
Again this is nothing more than a set of behaviours that is repeated on a regular basis.
So how do we start this positive behaviour?
What affirmative actions can we begin so that we might win over the conscious mind and trigger the right thoughts and feelings that will propel us forward towards a confident and decisive frame of mind.
Simple really……change your thoughts.
Step 1- Stop listening to negative people or joining negative conversations. This is poison and all though most people are engaged in negative conversation it is the people who don’t join who are the real winners.
Step 2- Stop reading or listening to the news as this will have exactly the same effect as the negative conversations or the negative people do. It will drain you of all positive thoughts and feelings.
Step3- Make new friends who you are attracted to through their ability to lift your mood and visa versa. Positive attracts positive in the same way that money attracts money. Positive friends will enable you to practice the right behaviour and will change your thoughts if the ‘old’ you decides to make an appearance.
Step 4- Read everything you can about the power of positive thinking as this is the very best way of understanding the right techniques that will allow you to hone your skills and harness the assured and decisive thought patterns that you are seeking.
Lastly enjoy the material within this site and use it at your disposal. Remember, positive thinking comes to those who take positive action and positive quotes will start you on this journey.
Positve Quotes
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
-Vincent J. Lombardi
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should
always have a goal. -Francie Larrieu Smith
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire.
No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. -Jane Smiley
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does
bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. -Zig Ziglar
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-Jim Ryun
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t,
you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you
off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall. -Confucius
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy
and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -Arland Gilbert
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can
change the outer aspects of their lives. -William James
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.
Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
-Frank Tibolt
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will
annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself–your
strengths and your limitations – in contrast to depending on affirmation
from others. -Judith M. Bardwick
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not
only plan but also believe. -Anatole France
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and
happened to things. -Elinor Smith
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action,
gives me satisfaction. -Jawaharlal Nehru
Its not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man who says
the oath. -Aeschylus
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t,
you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you
off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep
your foot on first. -Frederick B. Wilcox
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the
mountain that sustain life, not the top. -Robert M. Pirsig
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which
ordinary people rise to meet. -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.
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 that has
opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.–Marie Curie
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what
strengths you have, what you can accomplish. -Cecile M. Springer
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry
David Thoreau
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all
costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having
accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -Thomas A. Bennett
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but
does not make any progress. -Alfred A. Montapert
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a
long time ago. -Warren Buffett
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is
to act in accordance with your thinking. -Goethe
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things. -Robert Brault
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The
tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not
doing anything very innovative. -Woody Allen
If you’re made of the right material, a hard fall is bound to result
in a high bounce.
It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your
altitude. -Zig Zigler
Size isn’t everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant
continues to do just fine. -Bill Vaughan
Adversities cause some men to break; others to break records.
-William A. Ward
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your
character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what
others think you are. -John Wooden
I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people
hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. -Howard Stern
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That
is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them. -Henry
David Thoreau
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will
not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. -Adolph Monod
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way
things turn out. -Art Linkletter
We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before
probably cannot be done at all. -Donald M. Nelson
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that things are difficult. -Seneca
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
“Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud -
We in ourselves rejoice!
And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,
All melodies the echoes of that voice,
All colors a suffusion from that light.”
-Coleridge
“Today, a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.” -Anne De Lenclos
“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.” -John Wesley
“Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past.” -Deepak Chopra
“Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” – Harvey Mackay
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein
“Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it.” -Anna Robertson Brown
“Love What You Do. Do What You Love.” -Wayne Dyer
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” -Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
-William Arthur Ward
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only
need to find one good reason why it will. -Dr. Robert
