The 67 Best Quotes About Positive Thinking

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. Roald Dahl

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it. Jesse Owens

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes

I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams. Matt Smith

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. Kurt Vonnegut

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,’ he said wisely one day, ‘but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.’ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. Harvey Fierstein

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose the positive. You have a choice. You are the master of your attitude. Choose the positive, the constructive. Bruce Lee

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. Edward Rickenbacker

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. Seth Godin

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

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Unknown

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. Brian Tracy

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitable bring about right results. James Allen

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. Helen Keller

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences. Bryant McGill

A great attitude becomes a great mood. A great mood becomes a great day. A great day becomes a great year. A great year becomes a great life. Unknown

The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one? Steve Schulte

Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you’ll see the world from another perspective. Thea Kristine May

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. Mary Lou Retton

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah

The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it’s permanent then it’s permanent. If you think you’ve reached your limits then you have. If you think you’ll never get well then you won’t. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that’s holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary. Joel Osteen

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. Mark Twain

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. Norman Vincent Peale

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse

Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us. John Mitchell

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being. Eileen Caddy

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

I suggest that you believe without the physical evidence, hold on to the truth that the universe is perfect and will move in to form whatever you desire if you just do the planting and take care of the seeds. Have faith. John Assaraf

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. Brian Tracy

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. Lao Tzu

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman

Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will. Unknown

Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours. Tom Hopkins

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln

My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t. Samuel Johnson

You are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Anaïs Nin

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. David Viscott

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. Mahatma Gandhi

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. Unknown

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur Ward

There is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely what we imagine or picture ourselves to be. We tend to equate with our own self-appraisal of either depreciation or appreciation. We ourselves determine either self-limitation or unlimited growth potential… The positive thinkers constantly send out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism, and creativity. They therefore activate the world around them positively and strongly tend to draw back to themselves positive results. This is a basic law of mind action… The positive principle is based on the fact that there is always an answer, a right answer, and that positive thinking through a sound intellectual process can always produce that answer. Norman Vincent Peale

Pessimism never won any battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. Henry Rollins

That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. George Foreman

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better. Harvey Mackay

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things… there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours. Noam Chomsky

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else. Winston Churchill