Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: work job attitude positive

Outlook determines outcome; attitude determines action.
Warren W. Wiersbe Be Hopeful
Categories: attitude optimism positive thinking

Half-heartedness never won a battle.
William McKinley Power Quotes
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Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: attitude positive success life

You are not living by human laws but by divine 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 Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: expectations optimism positive thinking

...positive attitudes...come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free!
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: positive thinking attitude optimism

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.
Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD Managing Your Mind
Categories: self-esteem success positive self-image

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Harvey Mackay "Technology can't substitute for good attitude" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, December 19, 1999
Categories: positive attitude thinking optimism

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: attitude commitment positive enthusiasm action

Every day and in every way, I am becoming better and better.
Emile Coue What You Can Change... and What You Can't
Categories: self-improvement positive thinking affirmations visualization

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier, in the novel, Rebecca Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: happiness joy positive thinking optimism feelings emotions

Clear your mind of "can't."
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: attitude self-confidence self-assurance belief positive negative

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question: It provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Categories: problems creativity life living goals positive

Dare to believe in miracles. Look beyond the mud on the windshield, beyond the impossible, and know life is more than anguish and stress. Reach out to someone, when your heart is too heavy to feel the sunlight or to taste the rain. Rid yourself of dark thought and melancholy. Open your mind to fresh air, to the unlimited music in your soul.
Joyce Sequichie Hifler A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: obstacles challenges problems enthusiasm attitude positive

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 Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude choice outlook positive thinking wellness cheerfulness

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how."
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
Slogan of the US Armed Forces The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action self-confidence work effort positive thinking optimism just do it

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman Simple Abundance
Categories: satisfaction acceptance gratitude inner peace self-confidence positive self-regard

So don't think you can't think you can.
Charles Inge The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: thought negativity optimism pessimism self-confidence positive thinking

We satisfied ourselves the other day that there was no real ill in life except severe bodily pain; everything else is the child of the imagination, and depends on our thoughts. All other ills find a remedy either from time, or moderation, or strength of mind.
La Marquise de Sevigne Treasury of Women's Quotations
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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.
Samuel Smiles The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-confidence positive thinking achievement goal vision determination persevere

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: enthusiasm spirit difficulties challenges problems heart attitude positive

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: enthusiasm positive challenges difficulties problems solutions progress growth

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.
Henry Hoskins Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: enthusiastic positive thinking optimism energy work effort success achievement

In each of our lives, for whatever reason, there are times that we are faced with things that just don't make sense to us. And the more we struggle to understand our hardships, the less any of it makes sense.
I have found that in every challenge and obstacle that we are faced with there *can* be good that can come from it! While it's almost never easy to identify, I assure you that it is there lying dormant just waiting for us to release it! I urge everyone to spend your days looking for positives in your life.
Josh Hinds The Inspiration a Day! mailing list, April 8, 1998.
Categories: blessings positive focus attitude gratitude struggle problem difficulties obstacles vision

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness attitude optimism positive thinking inner peace self-control joy feelings emotions choice

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness choice optimism positive thinking flexibility emotions feelings self-control inner peace

All things are possible until they are proved impossible--even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: possibility possibilities attitudes choice self-assurance positive thinking optimism impossible excuses

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Lillian Eichler Watson
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Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William A. Ward Words for All Occasions
Categories: success achieve planning preparation goal vision mission positive attitude persistence determination work effort

Success breeds success. Attend to your mind's most joyful, effective discovery process. Bolster the self-beliefs that add confidence, lucidity, and tenacity to your efforts. You'll get more out of what you notice, so heed whatever gives you wisdom.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: self-confidence self-esteem optimism positive thinking success achievement joy happiness work effort learning knowledge wisdom growth self-improvement

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: attitude faith hope belief positive thinking optimism believe prayer inner wisdom problems solving difficulty difficulties obstacles challenges adversity

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: optimism pessimism realism positive thinking negative thinking

We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them ultimately determines how successful you are.
Craig McFarlane (blind motivational speaker) "Motivation overcomes 'minor inconvenience'" by Robbie Sherwood, 11/13/98 Arizona Republic
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What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while.
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
George Asaf (George H. Powell) The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: attitude optimism worry stress anxiety smiling happiness enthusiasm balance joy smiles attitude positive thinking

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
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