Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Positive Attitudes

He was a ‘how’ thinker, not an ‘if’ thinker.
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The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
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If you prepare for old age, old age comes sooner.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion – what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) Canadian Novelist

The man who works need never be a problem to anyone. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.
John Wicker

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
J. William Fulbright (1905–95) American Politician

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

We have a problem. “Congratulations.” But it’s a tough problem. “Then double congratulations.”
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American Self-help Guru, Entrepreneur

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
W. W. Ziege

What we prepare for is what we shall get.
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) American Polymath, Academic, Historian, Sociologist, Anthropologist

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl (1905–97) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist

Man—being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts, since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn (1644–1718) American Entrepreneur, Political leader, Philosopher

Bad times, hard times-this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American Civil Rights Leader

I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage (1668–1747) French Novelist, Dramatist

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer

Knock the “t” off the “can’t”.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) American Catholic Religious Leader, Theologian

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter

We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill deserve the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist

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