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"It is your attitude more than your aptitude that determines your altitude."
— Brian Tracy, Personal Success
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
- Helen Keller
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"Imagine two lawyers in a courtroom inside your head. One is arguing for your possibilities and you achieving your goals. The other is arguing for your limits and why you don’t deserve what you want. Who will win? The lawyer whom you pay the most. The way you pay these lawyers, however, is not with money; it is with your attention."
— Alan Cohen, Why Your Life Sucks
"Positivity is the world’s most underutilized, naturally occurring resource available to fuel success and forward progress."
— Michelle Gielan, Broadcasting Happiness
"I keep my mind so busy thinking about what I wish to accomplish that there is no room in it for thinking about things I don’t want."
— Henry Ford
"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
"Every statement we make to ourselves, enters into the mental bank account of our confidence and either drives it upward or drags it down."
— Dr. Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind
"Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions."
- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
"Fully 85 percent of your success and advancement is going to be determined by your attitude."
- Brian Tracy, Personal Success
"Essentially, all optimism strategies involve the exercise of construing the world with a more positive and charitable perspective, and many entail considering the silver lining in the cloud, identifying the door that opens as a result of one that has closed."
- Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness
"Each day is like a winding path strewn with pearls and diamonds, emeralds and rubies, each one an opportunity for a positive experience. Unfortunately, most people hurry by without noticing them. And even when they do see a jewel, they rarely feel anything about it. Jewel after jewel left behind, lost forever."
- Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness
"Are you alive, excited, and full of energy? More importantly, are you committed to having a good attitude and the right mindset every day?"
- Tom Ferry, Mindset, Model and Marketing
"Gratitude is a choice. It's also the quickest way to turn yourself from negative to positive. It doesn't matter what is going on around you. You can always find something to be grateful for."
- Darrin Donnelly
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."
- Corrie ten Boom
“Trust that whatever is happening to you is actually happening for you. Trust that every single obstacle you face is providing you with a greater opportunity you would not have otherwise had.”
- Darrin Donnelly
"Your attitude is one of the single most important things you can control, and if you’re not careful, you will let others influence and sometimes even control your attitude for you."
- Alden Mills
“Positivity is like a radar in search of solutions to problems. Thus, positive thinkers can see solutions, where negative people see only problems.”
- Tom Corley, Rich Habits: The Daily Habits of Successful Individuals
“New research in psychology and neuroscience shows that it works the other way around: We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”
- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage