optimism

Negative thinking will always lead to failure
and nervous prostration; but positive faith--
positive thinking--will lead you
towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

Albert E. Cliffe

Every morning pull yourself up to your full height and stand tall.
Then think tall--think big, elevated thoughts.  Then go out
and act tall.  Do that and joy will flow to you.

William Danforth

   
Although many of us probably didn't get a thorough education in the
value of a positive attitude, we can teach ourselves.  Simply by making
a decision to look for the good, happy, and beautiful in all things and
all people, you will have completed the first and most important step
in learning to accentuate the positive.

Sue Patton Thoele
      

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking.
To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

Thomas Dreier

  

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of
your thoughts. . . take care that you entertain no notions
unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

   

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

   

Positive thinking is not always the easiest course of action when confronting
difficulties.  If, however, we can remain focused on keeping hope strong
and not succumbing to negative influences, we will meet with success
in dealing with anything life may throw in our path.

Hiram Rogers Lloyd

  
  

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it.
Brood about death and you will 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.  This is the sure way to win
victories over inner defeat.  It is the way a humble person
meets life or death.

Eddie Rickenbacker

  

Positive thinking is
a constant attention
to the details that
make up an average
day—with the
knowledge that how
you live this moment
may reflect on the
rest of your life.

Jason Rogerson

  
I know that my thoughts help create my experiences.  Thinking positive thoughts about myself helps me to do and be my best always.

The same is true of my relationships.  If I am thinking the best about my family and friends, I bring the best to my relationships with them.

The very best thoughts I can think are God-centered thoughts of love, acceptance, and forgiveness. So I don't think less of friends and loved ones than what is true about them:  They are children of God who deserve to be thought of with true, honorable, just, and positive thoughts.

My loving, patient thoughts create loving, long-lasting relationships.

unattributed
from Daily Word

  

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

   

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All that we do outwardly is but the expression
and completion of our inward thought.  To work
effectively, we must think clearly;
to act nobly, we must think nobly.

William Ellery Channing

   
 

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. . . . Whatever
your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise
with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal.  You will become
as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

 

Our best friend and our worst enemies are our thoughts.
A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker
or a faithful friend.  It can also
do us more harm than a brick.

Frank Crane

 
If we knew the true power of belief and positive thinking,
we would never have a negative thought.

Susan Santucci

   

   
   
   

Nurture great thoughts for you will never go higher than your thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli

   

    

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