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Positive Attitude Messages

When you have a positive attitude, you feel better about the situation in which you already find yourself and you go a long way toward successfully improving your situation than you otherwise would. Even knowing this, it can sometimes be challenging to maintain a positive outlook. Fortunately, we have at our disposal a wealth of insight and encouragement in the form of short quotes from wise and well-spoken people who have gone before us.

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."

      "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

    Earl Nightingale

    • "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

    Jean Church

    • "You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star."

    Zig Ziglar

    • "You can disagree without being disagreeable."

      "You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise."

    Henry David Thoreau

    • "You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

      "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."

    Martin Luther King, Jr

    • "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

    Kalil Gibran

    • "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

    Jerry West

    • "You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."

    Albert Einstein

    • "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

    A.L. Williams

    • "You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life."

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