150 Positive Thinking Quotes Helping You Think Positive

Positive thinking quotes help to inspire you and think more positively in these difficult times.

It’s easy to get depressed, sad, stressed, or angry from reading social media or watching the news.

Negativity is all around us, and it can bring us down throughout our life, but I hope these positive thinking quotes will encourage you, lift you, help you think positively, and see the bright side of things.

When you think positively, it increases the chances of you succeeding in anything you do. If you are optimistic and learn to develop positive vibes, you will live a happy and fulfilling life.

Many people dismiss thinking positively, but this type of thinking improves your mental health and wellbeing. Positive thinking improves your current relationships and boosts your confidence.

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One way to help boost your positive thinking is to associate yourself with positive people and people who have positive attitudes. These are the type of people who will pick you up when you fail and keep encouraging you.

Positive Thinking Quotes

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Positive Thinking Quotes

Change your thoughts and you can change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.

Tia Walker
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Quotes about positive thinking

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

Winston Churchill

Think positive, be positive and positive things will happen.

Unknown | Think positive quotes

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One small positive thought can change your whole day.

Zig Ziglar

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

If things aren’t going so well, I try to stay positive and not give in to negative thoughts.

Rosanna Arquette

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never let a bad situation bring out the worst in you. Choose to stay positive and be the strong person that God created you to be!

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

Unknown

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Aldous Huxley

Things have a way of working themselves out if we just remain positive.

Lou Holtz

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Joyce Brothers

Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think. What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.

Tony Dungy

A negative mind will never give you a positive life. -Unknown | Positive quotes about life

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

You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are.

Rachel Hollis

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Nelson Mandela

Power Of Positive Thinking Quotes

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble yet reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale
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Always be positive. Trips down the stairs Whew, I got down those stairs fast.

Unknown

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

Rose Namajunas

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Unknown | Positive attitude quotes

Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.

Unknown

Forcing myself to think positively did wonders for my spirit. I was able to overcome the discontent inside me, and my old enthusiasm slowly returned.

Mary Kay Ash

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Michael Jordan

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people’s thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

Finn Balor

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people t make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

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

Mary Lou Retton

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

Matt Cameron

Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals. – Amy Morin

You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Bernie Siegel

This is one of the most important themes I want you to take from me: Stay as positive and upbeat as you can possibly be. I’ll say it many times: if you can dream it, you can be it.

John Calipari

We can change our future by merely changing our attitude to the positive. Simple yet powerful!

Zeenat Merchant Syal

Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.

Nick Saban

Positive Thinking Success Quotes

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Shiv Khera

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

I’m loud…but I’m positive. You don’t get anywhere by beating people down with negativity.

Frank Martin

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Vince Lombardi

In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama

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

Marcus Aurelius

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are weeds that strangle confidence.

Bruce Lee

Positive people have negative thoughts, they just don’t let those thoughts grow and destroy them.

Unknown

Many of us manufacture our own unhappiness. Of course not all unhappiness is self-created, for social conditions are responsible for a few of our woes. Yet it is a fact that to a large extent by our thoughts and attitudes we distill out of the ingredients of life either happiness or unhappiness for ourselves.

Norman Vincent Peale

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart’s desire. It is what is in the heart of you, either good or bad, strong or weak, that finally comes to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Wayne Dyer

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.

Pat Riley

Positive Quotes About Faith

Faith supplies staying power. It contains the dynamic to keep one going when the going is hard. Anybody can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to enable you to keep fighting when it seems that everything is against you. It is a great secret, that of never being “defeated by the discouraging vicissitudes of the game”.

Norman Vincent Peale

Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initiative, more happiness.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Being what most people think is realistic is only a way of justifying negative thinking. Go for something great.

Dr. Bob Rotella

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Every achievement in this world was first projected as a creative idea. First the idea, then the faith in it, then the means of implementing the idea. That is the way success proceeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you put negative thoughts into your mind, you’re going to get negative results. It’s just as true that if you put positive thoughts in your mind, you will be a recipient of positive results.

Lou Holtz

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Joel Osteen

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week, and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

Do your best and leave the results to God.

Norman Vincent Peale

I’ve learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

Richard M. Devos | Positive thinking quotes for leadership

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Discipline your mind to think positively. Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every intent.

Roy T. Bennett

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

Zig Ziglar

I shall stay calm in moments of stress and anxiety, so as to allow positive thoughts and actions to manifest from me.

Leon Brown

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.

Norman Vincent Peale

You can think your way to failure and unhappiness, but you can also think your way to success and happiness.

Norman Vincent Peale

Your world is the thoughts you have about your experiences

Norman Vincent Peale

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Postive Thinking Quotes For Today

Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow is a fresh opportunity to make it better.

Unknown

Much of our pain or misery in life stems from our own outlook towards the situation. A paralyzed person can also be happy, so can be a financially poor family.

Amit Ahlawat

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

Oprah Winfrey

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.

Yoko Ono

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Muhammad Ali

We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.

Maya Angelou

If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.

Mark Cuban

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

Dr Roopleen

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimism.

Jennifer Crusie

Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.

Charles F. Glassman

Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.

Stephen Richards

Positive energy is attracted to positive energy.

Deborah Day

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.

Rodolfo Costa

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Positive Thinking Quotes For Success

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.

Ron Jaworski

Approached by someone who wants to achieve a specific dream, many of us offer simple advice: think positive!

Gabriele Oettingen

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A major factor in determining how our lives turn out is the way we choose to think. Everything that goes on inside the human mind in the form of thoughts, ideas, and information forms our personal philosophy.

Jim Rohn

One of the most efficient ways you can improve your life is by simply thinking in a more positive way.

Robert Norman

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

Tena Desae

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

Yani Tseng

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Positive thinking means expecting, believing, and visualizing what you want to achieve. It means seeing in your mind’s eye the thing you want, as an accomplished fact.

Unknown

A positive mind finds opportunity in everything. A negative mind finds fault in everything.

Unknown

The past has no power over the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams. Think about the possibility of what you plan to do and approach it with an optimistic action. Stay positively.

Israelmore Ayivor

That is what positive thinking is all about. It’s about responding to life’s obstacles with a positive, never-back-down attitude.

Darrin Donnelly

Being in a positive state of mind is more important than you might think as the mind cannot be creative in a negative state. New ideas, thoughts and inspiration will only take place when the mind is positive.

Joe Hinchliffe

Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

Suga

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

Ellen DeGeneres

Look outwards toward the world with positivity and be happy everyday.

Mike | PositiveThinkingMind.com

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Roy T. Bennett

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking.

Rick Steves

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.

Pat Riley

Kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong.

Babe Ruth

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Mahatma Gandhi

It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.

Baker Mayfield

One small positive thought can change your whole day.”

Zig Ziglar

One small positive thought can change your whole day.

Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking is better than always thinking negative. Positive thinking can help your your goals and be happier.

Mike | PositiveThinkingMind.com

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Michael Jordan

While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.

Jean Chatzky

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Thomas J. Watson

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly, you are doing the impossible.

Saint Francis

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Gail Devers

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which may to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

John Carmack

The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!

Brian Tracy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Philip Green

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Gail Devers

Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones – this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Joyce Brothers

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Shiv Khera

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take them closer to the fulfilment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Jack Canfield

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy

When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.

Stephen Richards

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Rob Siltanen

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

John Rockefeller

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.

Dr. Seuss

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

Zig Ziglar

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.

Deep Roy

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Staying positive does not mean everything will turn out okay. Rather, it means you will be okay no matter how things turn out.

Unknown

When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear.

Elaine Welteroth

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Les Brown

What Is Positive Thinking?

Positive thinking has to do with your mental attitude and your emotions which focus on the good aspects of life that will ultimately benefit you. Positive thinking is about happiness, focusing on your health and success, and essentially training your mind to adopt an optimistic mindset.

How Important Is The Power Of Positive Thinking?

The power of positive thinking can make or break you. Your thoughts affect your actions, and your actions decipher whether you succeed in your field or not. Thinking positive or not can affect your relationships and how you view the world as a whole. When you think positively, it’s proven to reduce cardiovascular issues and stress.

How Do You Train Your Mind To Think Positive?

To train your mind to think positively, you need to handle your negative thoughts positively. The way you feel and think is up to you by taking responsibility for your mindset and emotion. It would help if you changed a few things: your mindset, attitude, choosing your words carefully, forming new positive habits, and being mindful.

What Are Some Positive Sayings?

  • I admire you
  • I value you
  • I trust you
  • You are smart
  • You can count on me

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