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Let these Staying Positive quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
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