Motivation and positive thinking Quotes

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

What does not kill me makes me stronger

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white

The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it

There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it

Hope is a waking dream

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game

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

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please

When in doubt, don’t

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open