Positive Thinking Inspirational Quotes

My Collection of best Positive Thinking Inspirational Quotes to help the youth in Developing Positive Thinking Minds and Positive Attitude in Life.

1.  “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” ~ Anonymous
2. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
3. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
4. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs
6. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
7. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
8. “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”
9. Root Cause vs. Effects “For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.”
10. “When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment
11. “Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.”
12. “There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior
13. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.
15. Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.
16. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain
17. Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.
18. The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced – Art Van Der Leeuw
19. “My life is my message.” – Gandhi
20. “If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield
21. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
22. “In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp (Regarding meditation)
23. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
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25. “You become what you think about most of the time.” – Brian Tracy
    
    
    • “Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.” – James Allen
    • “The ancestor of every action is a thought.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7
    • “When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right.” – Tony Alfonso
    • “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
    • “Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution.” – Dr. David Schwartz
    • “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
    • “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison
    • “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden
    • “You can do it if you believe you can.” – Napoleon Hill
    • “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” – Claude M. Bristol
    • “Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde
    • “The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think.” – Dean Francis
    • “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
    • “Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.” – Napoleon Hill 
26.  I am not afraid. I was born to do this. —Joan of Arc
27. You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. —Wayne Dyer
28. Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death. —Betty Bender
29. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
30. Many people are afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy is those who are afraid of the light. —Unknown
31. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. —Galileo Galilei
32. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. —Unknown
33. In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain. —Paulo Coelho
34. Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light. —Unknown
35. As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can. —Julius Caesar
36. Anxiety is just repeatedly experiencing failure in advance. —Seth Godin
37. By acting bravely we become brave; not the other way round. —Unknown
38. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. —Gandhi
39. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” —Mark Twain
40. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. —Ghandi
41. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. —John E. Southard
42. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Ghandi
43. When I choose to imagine someone’s pain/perspective I lose my appetite for anger. —Unknown
44. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. —Thich Nhat Hanh
45. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. —don Miguel Ruiz
46. Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. —Tony Robbins
47. Positive people don’t need an outside push; they seemingly have a natural internal push that continually pulls them forward. —Unknown
48. You must choose between your attachments and happiness. —Adyashanti
49. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. —Unknown
50. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William A. Ward
51. Not only is the kingdom of heaven within, but the kingdom of Hell is within as well – it’s your choice. —Unknown
52. What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences. —Anthony Robbins
53. In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy. —Bobby McFerrin
54. The sanest thing in this world is love. —Anne Sexton
55. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. —Mother Teresa
56. When two people fall in love, past and future disappear. —The Alchemist
57. Love means protection, adoration, mutual growth, & respect above all other things. Without this, love is an illusion, a confused attachment. —Dena Botbyl
58. Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself. —Unknown
59. Detachment is not indifference. Detachment is love without expecting anything in return. —Unknown
60. There is only love; there is nothing else. —Dena Botbyl
61. When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. —Armand Hammer
62. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. —Sun Tsu
63. The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. —Steven Pressfield
64. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. —Anthony Robbins
65. Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals. —Gandhi
66. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. —Bruce Lee
67. When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat. —Robert Cheruiyot
68. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. —Theodore Roosevelt
69. The Pearl Principle – no inner irritation, no pearl. —Lama Surya Das
70. Discipline is an exercise of repetition. Not once or twice but until. Until completed. —Unknown
71. Giving up is not failing — it’s the chance to begin again. —Unknown
72. We only get to play this game one time, one life. —Gary Vaynerchuk
73. If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. —Michelangelo
74. If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals. —Lou Holtz
76. 50. Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman
77. We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. —Woodrow Wilson
78. Whether you KNOW it or not, ACCEPT it or not, with each moment that passes, you get closer to fulfilling your life’s purpose. —Dena Botbyl
79. A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. —Lou Holtz
80. Let go and let God. —Unknown
81. God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here. —Sufi poem
82. Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen. —The Alchemist
83. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. —Louis L’Amour
84. Act, & God will act. —Joan of Arc
85. When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure. —Deepak Chopra
86. To me faith means not worrying. —John Dewey
87. Whatever is… is best. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
88. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. —Langston Hughes
89. The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child. —Deepak Chopra
90. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life. —Seneca
92. Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. —Harvey MacKay
93. Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. —Clementine Paddleford
94. Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me. —Wayne Dyer
95. There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe. —Wayne Dyer
96. The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you. —Michael Ventura
97. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. —Aristotle
98. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. —Joseph Campbell
99. Be willing to say to those in your charge, “I don’t know.” —Unknown
100. There are three ways to lead: 1. By example 2. By example 3. By example. —Unknown
101. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. —Marianne Williamson
102. Many people have gone a lot farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. —Zig Ziglar
103. A bird in a cage is safe but God didn’t create birds for that. —Unknown
104. Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit. —Deepak Chopra
105. Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. —Sarah Bernhardt
106. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. —John Milton
107. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “Thank You,” that would suffice. —Meister Eckhart
108. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. —Albert Einstein
109. In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. —Aaron Rose
110. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. —Rumi
112. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. —Plato
113. Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. —King Solomon
114. Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not. —Paulo Coelho
115. My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power. —Deepak Chopra
116. Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? —Unknown
117. We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. —William Hazlitt
118. All the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. —Yogic sages
119. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. —Henry David Thoreau
120. You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you. —Joseph Campbell
121. Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning. —Buddhist proverb
122. Every great mistake has a half way moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. —Pearl Buck
123. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. —Aldous Huxley
124. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. —Mark Twain
125. Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. —don Miguel Ruiz
126. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein
127. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. —Ghandi
128. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. —Socrates