Søren Kierkegaard on the power of positive thinking

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. 

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Jimmy Buffett on positive attitude

When life gives you limes, make margaritas.

~ Jimmy Buffett

Joan Baez on attitude

You don't get to choose how you're going to die.  Or when.  You can only decide how you're going to live.  Now.

~ Joan Baez, singer

Ann Landers on staying positive

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with.  You may consider yourself fortunate.

~ Ann Landers, columnist

Merle Miller on attitude

Everyone has his burden.  What counts is how you carry it.

~ Merle Miller, writer

Robert Tew on positive attitude

Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones. 

~ Robert Tew

Victor Frankl on positive attitude

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

~ Victor Frankl

Philosophies for Life on positive attitude

When you have the right attitude, nothing can stop you.  When you have the wrong attitude, almost anything can.

~ Philosophies for Life, "10 Life Lessons From the Stoic Master Seneca," YouTube, September 16, 2019

Martha Washington on the seeds of happiness

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

~ Martha Washington

Martha Washington
1922-1925

Friedrich Hayek on attitude and success

It is often contended that the belief that a person is solely responsible for his own fate is held only by the successful. This in itself is not so unacceptable as its underlying suggestion, which is that people hold this belief because they have been successful. I, for one, am inclined to think that the connection is the other way round and that people often are successful because they hold this belief. Though a man’s conviction that all he achieves is due solely to his exertions, skill, and intelligence may be largely false, it is apt to have the most beneficial effects on his energy and circumspection. And if the smug pride of the successful is often intolerable and offensive, the belief that success depends wholly on him is probably the pragmatically most effective incentive to successful action; whereas the more a man indulges in the propensity to blame others or circumstances for his failures, the more disgruntled and ineffective he tends to become.

 ~ Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

Scott Mautz on negative energy

When negative people project their unhelpful vibe into the universe, it's often a cover up. They don't feel good about themselves or something in their life and so want to project that sentiment elsewhere. Confident people aren't having it, because they don't need to build themselves up by tearing other people or things down.

~ Scott Mautz, "Highly Confident People Avoid These 14 Behaviors," Inc., December 8, 2019

Winston Churchill on positive attitude

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

Michael Jordan on failure

Failure always made me try harder the next time.  That's why my advice has always been to "think positive" and find fuel in any failure.

~ Michael Jordan

Ronald Reagan on attitude

A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

~ President Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan on attitude

Optimism is a choice, and one of the most powerful we can make.

~ President Ronald Reagan

Vince Lombardi on winning

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

~ Vince Lombardi, football coach

Lou Holtz on determination

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

~ Lou Holtz

Kevin Duffy on positive attitude

Be positive. Positive emotions are life’s fuel, negative emotions life’s baggage. Keep a full tank and travel light.

~ Kevin Duffy

Churchill on positive attitude

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

On positive attitude (anonymous)

Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.

~ Anonymous