Some people are intrinsically happier, more fulfilled, and better at what they do because they've learned the powerful effects of positive thinking. They've developed a positive mindset—a growth mindset—and they've used it as a platform to transform their lives.

Are you ready to focus on positive thoughts? Are you prepared to work toward creating your future with greater fulfillment and success achieved through the effects of positive thinking?

We've chosen quotes about positive thinking. What it means to be a positive thinker, why positive thinking is vital, and what positive thinking can do for you.

1. "A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done." ― Napoleon Hill.

2. "A river remains clean because it goes on flowing." ― Osho.

3. "Act as if it was, and it will be." ― Lailah Gifty Akita.

4. "Act in faith, don't W.O.R.R.Y.

   W = Waste

   O = Outstanding

   R = Resources

   R = Ruining

   Y = Your life." ― Farshad Asl

5. "All things are difficult before they are easy." ― Thomas Fuller.

6. "Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back!" ― Victoria Arduino.

7. "An iota of positivity is enough to offset a lifetime of negativity." ― Tapan Ghosh.

8. "Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective." ― Thea Kristine May.

9. "Be an empowertarian. A person who empowers their own life and that of others." ― Catherine Jane Fisher.

10. "Being miserable is a habit, being happy is a habit, and the choice is yours." ― Tom Hopkins.

11. "Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work." ― Roopleen Prasad.

12. "Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success." ― Charles Glassman.

13. "Catch sunbeams in a mirror! A reflection of a sunbeam can melt an iceberg." ― Lara Biyuts.

14. "Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible." ― Rodolfo Costa.

15. "Don't be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito." ― Bangambiki Habyarimana.

16. "Don't water your weeds." ― Harvey Mackay.

17. "Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." ― Groucho Marx.

18. "Each new day is a new challenge! Consider life assertively like that & nothing can knock you down!" ― Somya Kedia.

19. "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." ― Joseph Sugarman.

20. "Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible." ― Charles Glassman.

21. "Every single one of us is born with a unique and perfect set of tools which enable us to affect the world in an awesome and profound way. Unfortunately, most people do not open their toolbox." ― Greg Dutilly.

22. "Everything in your current reality began with your mentality. By controlling your mind, you can control your destiny." ― Dean Bokhari.

23. "Hard times don't come to break you. They come to prepare you." ― Garima Soni.

24. "Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet." ― Maya Angelou.

25. "I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself." ― Albert Einstein.

26. "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." ― Muhammad Ali.

27. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ― Douglas Adams.

28. "I never lose, I either win or learn." ― Nelson Mandela.

29. "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." ― Mark Twain.

30. "If human brain is like the world, then positive thinking must be the size of mountain, and negative thinking must be the size of mustard seed and not vice versa." ― Nikita Tak.

31. "If someone tells you, 'You can't,' they really mean, 'I can't.'" ― Sean Stephenson.

32. "If you treat your mind like a trash can, don't be surprised when you reach for a thought and all you get is garbage." ― Zero Dean.

33. "If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining." ― Guy Finley.

34. "If you think you can then you can." ― Stephen Richards.

35. "In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma - but never let him be the period, because it may just be a bad day, not a bad life!" ― Usman Aman.

36. "Instead of forcing yourself to feel positive, allow yourself to be present in the now." ― Daniel Mangena.

37. "Instead of saying, I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues," say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over." ― Horacio Jones.

38. "It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack." ― Germany Kent.

39. "It's a little magic trick you can play on yourself. Whenever you feel sad and lonely, just smile and close your eyes. Do it as many times as you have to." ― Genki Kawamura.

40. "It's not strength, it's perception that makes you stronger. If you change how you see it, you'll change how you feel about it." ― Yvonne Pierre.

41. "It's never a bad day, it's bad few minutes that you stretch all day." ― Amit Kalantri.

42. "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." ― Robert H. Schuller.

43. "Let your past be a reason for growth and greatness not blame and shame. Today is a new day!" ― Carol 'CC' Miller.

44. "Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!" ― Allan Rufus.

45. "Life is not a palindrome, don't look backwards." ― Nanette Avery.

46. "Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?" ― Allan Rufus.

47. "Life's rewards, as well as its shortcomings, are magnetic reflections of the vivacious energies we release through our thoughts, our actions, and our words." ― Netiera Danise.

48. "Likability: The true you is the best you." ― Michael Corthell.

49. "Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it." ― Rasheed Ogunlaru.

50. "Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world." ― Amit Ray.

51. "Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right." ― Stephen Richards.

52. "Murphy's Law states that, 'If anything will go wrong, it will.' The positive side of this law is, 'If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen.'" ― Jiten Bhatt.

53. "Negative thoughts never lead to a positive life. If you feed the negative you'll feel the negative." ― Adedayo Olabamiji.

54. "Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench." ― Charbel Tadros.

55. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." ― Thomas Edison.

56. "No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is." ― Mark Manson.

57. "Progress is not necessarily taking that first step; sometimes, all it takes is just facing forward." ― James Stoffel Jr.

58. "Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive." ― Rachel Robins.

59. "So many people waste time waiting for good things to happen to them. But sometimes we need to make good things happen. And when we finally start doing that, we often see there were good things in our lives all along." ― Caroline George.

60. "Success doesn't come to you, you go to it." ― T. Scott McLeod.

61. "Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." ― Mary Tyler Moore.

62. "The best medicine is your mindset." ― SeKeithia Johnson.

63. "The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do." ― Unknown.

64. "The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation." ― Stephen Richards.

65. "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." ― Oprah Winfrey.

66. "The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person." ― Matt Haig.

67. "The message you want to send to the marketplace through your persistent actions is, No one can keep up with me. I'm not going away. I am not a competitor. I am the space."― Grant Cardone.

68. "The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely." ― David Cuschieri.

69. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ― Alice Walker.

70. "The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." ― Robert Schuller.

71. "The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success." ― Eric Thomas.

72. "The past has no power over the present moment." ― Eckhart Tolle.

73. "The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." ― Lao Tzu.

74. "The taller you stand, the more possibilities you see." ― Carlos Salinas.

75. "There's always a source of light, you just need to seek it." ― Anamika Mishra.

76. "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." ― W. Clement Stone.

77. "There is no statute of limitations on how your life will be; you can restart your life at any time. Restart your life when the need is there. You don't have to stay where you are in life you just have to have a desire to restart your life." ― Charles E. Hudson.

78. "Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

79. "Thoughts --- just mere thoughts --- are as powerful as electric batteries --- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison." ― Frances Hodgson Burnett.

80. "Thoughts become things. Choose the good ones!" ― Mike Dooley.

81. "Today focus on the qualities you like about yourself, focus on the good friends and family members you have around you. Feed today with gratefulness. What you focus on I believe will remain constant in your life." ― Micheline Jean Louis.

82. "Understand that this life is short and precious. Engage in activities that shift your attention to positivity and something opposite to your burdens. Rejuvenate yourself and restart your pursuit with full vigor every day." ― Abhishek Ratna.

83. "Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life." ― Auliq Ice.

84. "Walk straight through the curves in life." ― Anthony Hincks.

85. "We are building our own destiny, every day, with the thoughts that we think." ― Dada Vaswani.

86. "We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future." ― Robin Sharma.

87. "We choose and wear our clothes every morning. Attitude is the same. Positivity is an attitude – we can choose to wear it every morning." ― Marako Marcus.

88. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ― Anais Nin.

89. "With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose." ― Wayne Dyer.

90. "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." ― Abraham Lincoln.

91. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." ― Viktor Frankl.

92. "Write your bane in a sand, your blessing in a stone." ― Amit Kalantri.

93. "Yesterday I read, today I learn, and tomorrow l lead." ― David Benedict Zumbo.

94. "You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours." ― Shannon L. Alder.

95. "You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets." ― Nikita Gill.

96. "You have the power to choose your new direction, and the world will open up to you when you do. In years to come you will thank yourself for everything you do now. So, take that step. You've got this! See you on the other side." ― Joanne Mallon.

97. "You have to open up to the world and learn optimism. Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimism." ― Jennifer Crusie.

98. "You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, 'I don't care how hard this is, I don't care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life." ― Joel Osteen.

99. "You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself." ― Mandy Hale.

100. "You'll never learn how to move mountains as long as you're satisfied scraping tops off molehills." ― T.F. Tenney.

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