A positive attitude doesn’t mean ignoring life’s troubles. It just means being an optimist and looking for the good in things, rather than being a pessimist and concentrating on the bad in things. Inspirational positive attitude quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous Attitude Quotes
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. – Guy Finley
Affirm the positive, visualize the positive and expect the positive, and your life will change accordingly. – Remez Sasson
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. – Mary Lou Retton
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
You have to be positive, and I’m not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. – Sheryl Swoopes
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
A positive mind finds opportunity in everything. A negative mind finds fault in everything. – Unknown
When your attitude is positive, you will naturally have more courage to take the next best step toward your goal. – William DeFoore
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough. – Richard M. DeVos
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. – Wade Boggs
It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive. – Ellen DeGeneres
A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems. – Subodh Gupta
If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
Having a positive attitude isn’t wishy washy, it’s a concrete and intelligent way to view problems, challenges and obstacles. – Jeff Moore
The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become. – Paulo Coelho
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. – Dalai Lama
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. -Elbert Hubbard
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Positivity brings about a peace of mind which in turn relaxes your whole being. – Suman Arora
Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle
All of your dreams and desires are within your reach when you have a positive attitude in your toolkit. – William DeFoore
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain. – Robert A. Cook
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can’t do. – Joyce Meyer
The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. – Anonymous
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day. – George Allen
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
Everywhere you go, make positive deposits rather than negative withdrawals. You can be a people builder. – Joel Osteen
A positive attitude turns I can’t & I won’t, into I have & I will! – Mandy Hale
Optimism is the most important human trait because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. – Seth Godin
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you. – Shannon L. Alder
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius
Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God’s spirit. – Israelmore Ayivor
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore
A positive attitude awakens inner strength, energy, motivation and initiative. – Anonymous
Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson
old on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it. – Earl G. Graves Sr
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. – Aberjhani
Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself. – Mark A. Cooper
Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that. – Christie Brinkley
I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. – Harvey Fierstein
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. – Amit Ray
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius
Positive thoughts are not enough. There have to be positive feelings and positive actions. -Kamari aka Lyrikal
You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude. – Marie Osmond
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Dennis P. Kimbro
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. – Brian Tracy
In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision. – Dalai Lama
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it’s basically what they’ve understood throughout their lives. – Chuck D
A positive attitude points you toward the best and brightest in the world around you, expanding your potential for growth and development in all areas of life. – William DeFoore
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. – Tony Robbins
Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. – Imelda Staunton
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. – Robert H Schuller
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. – Lou Holtz
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be. – Anthony Robbins
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. – Ralph Waldo EmersonA positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience. – Grant Fairly
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties. – Natalie Massenet
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what? – Sydney Harris
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. – Harvey Fierstein
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. – Joan Lunden
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. – Vince Lombardi
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. – David Bailey
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. – Tony Robbins
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. – Lee lacocca
A positive attitude about aging will help you navigate the territory of elderly parents in their later years. – William DeFoore
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems. – Stephen Covey
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. – William James
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. – Walt Disney
I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. – Michael Jordan
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot–it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that, I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. – Maya Angelou
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchil
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive. – L. Frank Baum
Don’t hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your light and together you will both shine strong. – L.F. Young
You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person’. It makes you human. – Lori Deschesne
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
It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain. – Roy T. Bennett
I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. – Roger Federer
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. – Walt Disney
All bad things, like good things, must end. – Nihar Sharma
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. – Eric Thomas
