“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”

Life

1. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William Shedd
2. “Knock the ‘t’ off the ‘can’t.’” — Samuel Johnson
3. “Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.” — Mignon McLaughlin
4. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
5. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “They can do all because they think they can.” – Vergil

8. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Henry S. Haskins

1. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” — Joe Namath
2. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” — Henry Ford

Action

Here are the best confidence quotes on action:

• “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” — Norman Vincent Peale
• “Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.” — Baltasar Gracian
• “Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.” — Paul J. Meyer
• “Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” — Stan Smith
• “Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.” — John Haggai
• “I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.” — Wole Soyinka
• “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” — Robert Downey, Jr.
• “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” — Dale Carnegie
• “It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.” — Lillian Hellman
• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
• “To win, all you
  need to do is get up one more time than you fall down.” — Anonymous

Boldness

Here are the best confidence quotes on boldness:

• “A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” — Sydney Smith
• “All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.” — Charles Dickens
• “As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.” — Bruce Lee
• “Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” – Cicero
• “Danger breeds best on too much confidence.” — Pierre Corneille
• “Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs.” — Dan Zadra
• “Fortune favors the brave.” – Virgil
• “If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.” — Tony Robbins
• “Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.” — Robert Brault
• “People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.” – Ovid
• “The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” — Andrew Carnegie
• “The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.” — Ella Maillart
• “There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.” — Orison Swett Marden
• “To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.” — Janeane Garofalo

Character

Here are the best confidence quotes on character:

• “Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.” — Joe Paterno
• “Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• “Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say …” — Wentworth Miller
• “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” — Vince Lombardi
• “Confidence is courage at ease.” — Daniel Maher
• “How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.” — Robert Brault
• “He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” — B. C. Forbes
• “I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.” — Anaïs Nin
• “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.” — Eddie Murphy
• “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin
• “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu
• “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” — Tom Landry
• “Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.” — Tristan Bernard
• “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.” — Sophia Loren
• “Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.” — André Dubus
• “The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.” — Felix Frankfurter

Competence

Here are the best confidence quotes on competence:

• “I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.” — Tom Landry
• “My intent is simply to know my material so well that I’m very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.” — Scott Berkun
• “Put your future in good hands – your own.” – Anonymous
• “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.” — Diane Arbus
• “Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” — George Herbert
• “The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.” — Kathleen Turner
• “There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.” — John Calvin
• “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan
• “You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.” — Joe Paterno

Courage / Fear

Here are the best confidence quotes on fear and courage:

• “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” — Peter T. Mcintyre
• “Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.” — Vanessa Hudgens
• “Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” – Aristotle
• “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain
• “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
• “I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.” — Allen H. Neuharth
• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
• “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” — William Shakespeare
• “Self trust is the essence of heroism.” – Emerson
• “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Anonymous
• “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Critics / Criticism

Here are the best confidence quotes on critics and criticism:

• “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” — Sally Field
• “Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” — Gene Fowler
• “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” — Les Brown
• “Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.” — Jean Sibelius
• “The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are – as women and as mothers.” — Arianna Huffington
• “We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.” — Olin Miller
• “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” — Lou Holtz and John Heisler

Limitations

Here are the best confidence quotes on limitations:

• “A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.” — John Powell
• “Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” — Mary Kay Ash
• “All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” — Richard Bach
• “Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.” — Francis Bacon
• “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” — Thomas Alva Edison
• “If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh
• “It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” – Epicurus
• “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary
• “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” – Anonymous
• “Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.” — Mignon McLaughlin
• “Never dull your shine for somebody else.” — Tyra Banks
• “No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.” — William Ellery Channing
• “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” — Bruce Barton
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” — Marianne Williamson
• “The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.” — Shawn Purvis
• “Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” — Mark Twain
• “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” — Brian Tracy
• “Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” — Michelle Obama

Self-Confidence

Here are the best confidence quotes on self-confidence:

• “Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.” — Max L. Forman
• “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” — Truman Capote
• “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” — Johann von Goethe
• “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
• “Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” — Roger Staubach
• “Confidence is a very fragile thing.” — Joe Montana
• “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” — Richard Kline
• “Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn’t the best looking guy, I wasn’t the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.” — Herschel Walker
• “He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.” — William Congreve
• “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe
• “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” — Anna Freud
• “I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that – the ghosts you chase you never catch.” — John Malkovich
• “If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.” — Sigmund Freud
• “If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.” — Henrik Ibsen
• “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” – Cicero
• “Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.” — Mignon McLaughlin
• “Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.” — Benjamin Spock
• “Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.” — George Santayana
• “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” — Mark Twain

Self-Talk

Here are the best confidence quotes on self-talk:

• “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain
• “Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.” — Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
• “We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.” — Roderick Thorp
• “What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” — African Proverb

Self-Worth / Self-Esteem

Here are the best confidence quotes on self-worth:

• “Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.” – Anonymous
• “Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.” — Nicholai Velimirovic
• “Be proud to wear you.” – Dodinsky
• “Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.” — George Foreman
• “I am not a has-been. I am a will be.” — Lauren Bacall
• “If I am not for myself, who will be?” — Pirke Avoth
• “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.” — Nicholas de Chamfort
• “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous
• “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” — W.C. Fields
• “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” — Michel de Montaigne
• “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie
• “Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.” — Mignon McLaughlin
• “Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.” — Michel de Montaigne
• “People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.” — Sa’Di
• “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” — Anthony Powell
• “The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.” — Paul Tillich
• “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” — Robert Hughes
• “The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.” — Ellen Goodman
• “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” — Sonya Friedman
• “They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.” — Christian Bovee
• “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” — Norman Vincent Peale
• “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” — Ram Dass
• “Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities.” – Dodinsky
• “Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.” — William J. H. Boetcker

General

Here are the best confidence quotes that are about confidence in general:

• “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” — David Brinkley
• “A timid question will always receive a confident answer.”—Lord Darling
• “Confidence … thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.” – Jack Nicklaus
• “Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.” — Gary Ryan Blair
• “He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.” – Boiste
• “Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” — Lao Tzu
• “Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.” — James Cash Penney
• “In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.” — Russian proverb
• “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
• “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” — Sally Kempton
• “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.” — Joseph Wood Krutch
• “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” — Ansel Adams
• “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” — James Madison
• “We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree – deeply rooted to withstand all of life’s upheavals.” – Dodinsky
• “We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.” — Lester B. Pearson
• “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” — Joe Paterno
• “Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.” — Hubert Green

positivity

Top 10 Positive Quotes

1. “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” –  Herm Albright
2. “Attitudes are contagious.  Are yours worth catching?” — Dennis and Wendy Mannering
3. “Be enthusiastic.  Remember the placebo effect – 30% of medicine is showbiz.” — Ronald Spark
4. “I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?” — Henry Moore
5. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” — Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire
7. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
8. “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” — Arthur Christopher Benson
9. “Wag more.  Bark less.” — Author Unknown
10. “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” — Konrad Adenauer

Actions

• “I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “If the sky falls, hold up your hands.” — Author Unknown
• “Make your optimism come true.” — Author Unknown
• “People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong … Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?” –  Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Some days there won’t be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.” — Emory Austin
• “The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” — Eudora Welty
• “The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it.” — Will Foley
• “There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.” — Frederick Faber
• “There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.” — Publius Terentius Afer
• “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” — Maori Proverb

Adaptability and Flexibility

• “For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it’s how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.” — Joey Tolbert
• “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” — George Santayana
• “We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.” — Author Unknown
• “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
• “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” — Albert Einstein

Anger and Frustration

• “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” — Marcus Antonius
• “To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” — Ken S. Keyes
• “When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.” — Author Unknown

Appreciation and Gratitude

• “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault
• “If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.” — Author Unknown
• “If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.” — Oscar Wilde
• “If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.” — Cavett Robert
• “It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing.” — Rosemarie Rossetti
• “Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.” — Rita Mae Brown
• “Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr
• “True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.” — Charles Caleb Colton
• “Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them.” — Author Unknown

Attitude, Disposition, and Character

• “A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” — William Arthur Ward
• “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” — Hugh Downs
• “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” — Winston Churchill
• “Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.” — Mike Dolan
• “Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks.  Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.” — Kathleen Turner
• “Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” — Katherine Mansfield
• “Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston
• “Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.” — Francesca Reigler
• “He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” — Samuel Johnson
• “Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.” — Winston Churchill
• “If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.” ~David Ambrose
• “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” — Vince Lombardi
• “It isn’t our position but our disposition which makes us happy.” — Author Unknown
• “No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.” — Ellen Glasgow
• “Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts.  It’s what you do with what you have left.” — Hubert Humphrey
• “People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.” — Author Unknown
• “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James
• “The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.” — Dennis S. Brown
• “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.” — William J. Bennett
• “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” — W. Clement Stone
• “Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” — Art Linkletter
• “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” — Alex Karras
• “Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.” — Eckhart Tolle
• “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.” — Carrie Latet
• “You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” — Ralph Marston

Defeat, Setbacks, and Failures

• “A car can’t operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches … you are the same.” — Mike Dolan
• “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” — Joe Clark
• “If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.” — Robert Brault
• “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camu
• “Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.” — Author Unknown
• “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.” — Thomas Carlyle
• “The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” — C.C. Scott
• “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.” — James Allen
• “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” –  Harriet Beecher Stowe
• “Whenever you fall, pick something up.” — Oswald Avery

Expectations

• “Expect nothing.  Live frugally on surprise.” — Alice Walker
• “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.” — William Allen White
• “I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man’s course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.” — Leo Tolstoy
• “I don’t like that man.  I must get to know him better.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer
• “If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” –  Swami Vivekananda
• “The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” — Eli Khamarov
• “The sun won’t shine until you put the umbrella away.  Be free.” — Author Unknown
• “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
• “Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” — Maurice Setter
• “Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” — Edward de Bono
• “We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.” — Elbert Hubbard
• “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

Focus and Perspective

• “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” — Author Unknown
• “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank
• “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” — Galileo Galilei
• “If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit
• “Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.” – Unknown
• “It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” — Annie Gottlier
• “Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your life.” — Annette Goodheart
• “May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.” — Sara June Parker
• “Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.” — Helen MacInness
• “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
• “Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.” — Nicholas Chamfort
• “That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.” — George Foreman
• “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” — John Milton
• “The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” –  Henri Matisse
• “There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” — Robert Brault
• “There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’” — Frederick L. Collins
• “There’s a saying among prospectors:  ‘Go out looking for one thing, and that’s all you’ll ever find.’” — Robert Flaherty
• “Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.” — Robert Brault
• “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Whatever my day may have lacked, yet I have tonight’s pearl moon.” — Dr. SunWolf
• “Work is either fun or drudgery.  It depends on your attitude.  I like fun.” — Colleen C. Barrett

Hope and Fear

• “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” — Patricia Neal
• “Either way, things are a lot better – either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they’re going to be.” — Robert Brault
• “Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.” — Swedish Proverb
• “I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.” – Voltaire
• “I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.” — Thornton Wilder
• “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “My friends, love is better than anger.  Hope is better than fear.  Optimism is better than despair.  So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.  And we’ll change the world.” — Jack Layton
• “When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.” — Zig Ziglar

Humor

• “A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out.” – Dodinsky
• “A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.” — Robert Frost
• “I was going to buy a copy of ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?” –  Ronnie Shakes
• “Optimist: someone who isn’t sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.” — Robert Brault
• “Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.” — Susan Longacre
• “Scratch less.  Purr more.” — Author Unknown
• “Sometimes life’s Hell.  But hey!  Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.” — J. Andrew Helt
• “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.” –  Oscar Wilde
• “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” — Scott Hamilton
• “The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.” — Foster’s Law

Letting Things Go and Forgiveness

• “For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” — Adlai Stevenson
• “The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” — Benjamin Franklin
• “To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” — Confucius

Love and Liking

• “A loving person lives in a loving world.  A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.” — Ken Keyes, Jr.
• “Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.” — Mignon McLaughlin
• “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein
• “Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.” — Mignon McLaughlin
• “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” — Henry Ward Beecher

Opportunity and Possibility

• “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
• “Become a possibilitarian.  No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.” — Norman Vincent Peale
• “I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.” — Wernher von Braun
• “If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.” — Francis Rabelais
• “Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.” – Napoleon
• “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” — Chinese Proverb
• “Learn to smile at every situation.  See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.” — Joe Brown
• “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” — John Heywood
• “The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.” — Author Unknown
• “Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.” — Robert Brault

Positive Thinking

• “A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” –  Mahatma Gandhi
• “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.  You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” — Roald Dahl
• “Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.” — Author Unknown
• “Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.” — Mike Dolan
• “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
• “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” — Rabindranath Tagore
• “Every thought is a seed.  If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” — Bill Meyer
• “Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.” — Walt Whitman
• “It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” –  Robert H. Schuller
• “Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” — Betty Smith
• “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson
• “People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true” — Bertrand Russell
• “Positive anything is better than negative thinking.” — Elbert Hubbard
• “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” — Zig Ziglar
• “So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr
• “The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.” — Robert Brault
• “The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.” — Henri Frédéric Amiel
• “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” — Author Unknown
• “They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.” – Dodinsky
• “When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.” — Albert Einstein

Enjoy and best wishes for a positive outlook and positive action for your road ahead.