Positive Uplifting Quotes

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Thinking Of You, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 08, 2014

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• Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• I guess good things come to those who wait.

  Kurt Busch

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• All good things come to those who wait.

  Paullina Simons

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Uplifting, Believe, Positive Thinking

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

  Harvey Mackay

  Uplifting, Positive Thinking, Optimism

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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