Positive thinking and negative thinking are attitudes. They are points of view, and show the way people handle their affairs.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
The withering away of the darkness and the rising of the sun signifies the most important aspect of life – despair giving way for hope.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Being positive or negative, are habits of thoughts that strongly affect your actions and your life.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.