Positive Thinking Quotes - Page 32

• What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.

  Jim Rohn

  Positive, Important

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• Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

  Federico Fellini

  Positive, Attitude, Expectations

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.146, Cooper Square Press

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• You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Leadership, Dream, Famous Inspirational

  Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.

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• To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Names, People, Moments

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• Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

  Voltaire

  Goal, Needs, Ancestry

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• Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

  Maurice Setters

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Attitude

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• The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

  Judith Regan

  Successful, Law Of Attraction, Keys

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• Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

  Rumi

  Funny, Motivation, Light

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• He who limps is still walking.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Action, Persevere

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• Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

  Ruth Brown

  Butterfly, Life Is Like, Thinking

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Excellence, Self Improvement

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Motivation, Inspiration

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Years, Ideas, Imagination

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• There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Tunnels, Light

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• In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  World

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• The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Want, Way

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• By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

  Denis Waitley

  Acting, Influence, Hours

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• Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• You are what you think about.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiration And Motivation, Motivational Action

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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• You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

  Wayne Dyer

  Sorry, Inner Strength, Treats

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• I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

  Ariel Gore

  Christian, Hands, Long

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• Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.

  Esther Hicks

  Thinking, Path, Findings

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships”, p.142, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.

  Judith Viorst

  Character, Simple, Ideas

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