Positive Quotes

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
~Walter Winchell

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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
~Epictetus

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

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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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
~unknown

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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
~Thich Nhat Hanh

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
~Robert H. Schuller

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I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~Ronnie Shakes

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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
~Albert Einstein

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you 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.
~Swami Vivekananda

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

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
~Oscar Wilde

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
~William Allen White

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Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
~Unknown

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Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s. I didn’t quite build St Paul’s, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.
~Lord Thorneycroft

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Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.
~James Allen

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Remember: Success is nothing but luck. Just ask any failure.
~Anon

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
~Seneca

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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways at the last minute, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO - That was Fun!”
~Anon