Quotations for Positive Attitudes

You are today where your thoughts have brought you?
You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal

Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does.
William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.  
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967, Writer

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock, Actor, Writer and Composer

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Harold S. Kushner, Rabbi, Author of When Bad Things Happen To Good People

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
 

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
Leo Buscaglia

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce, 1902-1987, American Diplomat and Writer

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.
Norman Vincent Peale

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara DeAngelis, Author

One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
—Barbara Kingsolver