Positive Quotes
Positive Sayings (6)

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous

Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

What you dream, you can create.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
- David Farragut

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose in ways that support your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer

Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson

Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow ...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream with Powerful Vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson

Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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