A Few Positive Thoughts to Give You a Boost

Here is a collection of positive thoughts and quotes to have a sift through next time your feeling a bit blue or indeed any time you would like a quick positive thinking boost or need a little inspiration or see the positive thinking articles here!

It isn’t what you have,
or who you are,
or where you are,
or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
-Dale Carnegie

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” – Unknown

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” 
— Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. 

“Little people talk about people. Medium size people talk about things. And big people talk about ideals and principles.” – Unknown

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” – Lord Buddha

 ”It isn’t your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it’s your disposition.”     — O. S. Marden

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”
- Epictetus

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, To everyone you can.” 
— Ancient Advice

“It a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”    —  W. Sommerset Morgan

 “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”  —  Seneca
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

 “Some men see things as they are, and ask, “why?” I dare to dream of things that never were, and ask—”Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw  

“Big shots are little shots that keep shooting.” —  Christopher Morley

 ”What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes  

Control your destiny or somebody else will.
Jack Welsh

“The pain you feel is the breaking of shell that encloses your understanding.”  — Cahil Gibran  

“Success is not measure by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed.” 
 — Booker T. Washington  

“Life is just a minute only sixty seconds in it, forced upon you, can‘t refuse it. Didn‘t seek it, didn‘t choose it, but It‘s up to you to use it. You must suffer if you lose it, give an account if you abuse it, just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.”  — Dr. Benjamin E. Mays  

“People do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”  — Oliver Wendell Holmes 

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo Da Vinci

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves— to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.” — Stewart B. Johnson

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalynn Carter

“A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill 

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