No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.
When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.
You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
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