“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
Henry Ford
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100 Positive Thinking Quotes
A short introduction
Positive thinking is not pretending the rent is paid when it is not. It is choosing the story you tell yourself about the next step — without lying about the hard parts.
These hundred quotes come from writers and teachers who believed attention shapes a day. Some are bright. Some are simply fair. We left out the lines that scold you for being sad.
If you are in a heavy season, you do not need a cheer. You might need one accurate, hopeful sentence. Read until you find that.
You can copy it, or turn it into a poster for a wall that you see when your mind starts circling. Four designs. Free. Author still there.
Positive thinking quotes should leave you more able, not more fake. That is the bar for this page.
Hope is allowed to be quiet. If a line makes you a little more willing to send the email, take the walk, or be decent at dinner, keep it. You can copy the text, or turn it into a poster for a wall you see when your thoughts start circling. Four designs. Author named. No watermark.
100 quotes
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
Albert Einstein
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
Rumi
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Maya Angelou
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
Michael Jordan
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”
Jim Rohn
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
Dalai Lama
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest.”
Dalai Lama
“You have to have a growth mindset.”
Satya Nadella
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
John C. Maxwell
“You become what you believe.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile, and start again.”
Paulo Coelho
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
Bernard Williams
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
“I never lose. I either win or learn.”
Nelson Mandela
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
Maori proverb
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
Buddha
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
Buddha
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
Buddha
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”
Buddha
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Buddha
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Buddha
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Buddha
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
Buddha
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
Buddha
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”
Buddha
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
Buddha
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
Buddha
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Buddha
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Buddha
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason.”
Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow verses is one verse that brings peace.”
Buddha
“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
Buddha
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
Buddha
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
Buddha
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
Buddha
“Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease.”
Buddha
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.”
Buddha
“He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond.”
Buddha
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
Buddha
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
Buddha
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
Buddha
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
Buddha
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
Buddha
“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
Buddha
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.”
Buddha
“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”
Buddha
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.”
Buddha
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”
Buddha
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
Buddha
“On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night.”
Buddha
“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.”
Buddha
“Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.”
Buddha
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
Buddha
“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”
Buddha
“Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him set his heart on it.”
Buddha
“Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.”
Buddha
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the earth.”
Buddha
“The tongue like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”
Buddha
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
Buddha
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Buddha
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
Buddha
“True love is born from understanding.”
Buddha
“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
Buddha
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
Buddha
“What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.”
Buddha
“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
“With our thoughts we make the world.”
Buddha
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
Buddha
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
Buddha
“As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not cling to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.”
Buddha
“Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
Buddha
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.”
Buddha
“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
Buddha
“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
Buddha
“Few among men are those who cross to the farther shore. The rest, the bulk of men, only run up and down the hither bank.”
Buddha
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FAQ
They are lines about hope, attention, and choosing a useful thought. The honest ones do not deny pain. They just refuse to make pain the whole story.