Start your Monday positive with these powerful Positivity Quotes!

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” ― Oprah Winfrey

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“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” ― Elvis Presley

4.

“The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” ― Roy T. Bennett

5.

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” ― George Eliot

6.

“The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” ― Stephen Richards

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“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” ― Stephen Richards

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“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.” ― C. JoyBell C.

9.

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.” ― Mandy Hale

10.

“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” ― Ellen DeGeneres

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“When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.” ― Stephen Richards

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

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“Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.” ― Rick Steves

14.

“I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?” ― Epictetus

15.

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.” -Anonymous

16.

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” – Paulo Coelho

17.

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”  – Edith Wharton

18.

“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.” – Dr. Wayne W Dyer

19.

“Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou

20.

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller

21.

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin

22.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

23.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams

24.

“Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” – Maya Watson

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“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” – Mark Twain

26.

“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Unknown

27.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl

28.

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” – William James

29.

“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi

30.

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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

31.

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” – Kurt Vonnegut

32.

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” – Stephen Covey

33.

“All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

34.

“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S Lewis

35.

“The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting.” – Walt Disney

36.

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

37.

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Landon

38.

“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

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“If someone tells you, “You can’t” they really mean, “I can’t.” – Sean Stephenson

40.

“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown

41.

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” – Muhammad Ali

42.

“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

43.

“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John C Maxwell

44.

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius

45.

“All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!” – Gary W Goldstein

46.

“No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice.” – Deepak Chopra

47.

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

48.

“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma

49.

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” – Tony Robbins

50.

“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley

51.

“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

52.

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

53.

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” ~ Zig Ziglar

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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden

55.

“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

56.

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

57.

“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” — Dalai Lama

58.

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” — William James

59.

“Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” — Harvey Mackay

60.

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell

61.

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.” — Buddha

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“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”– Will Rogers

63.

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”– Mahatma Gandhi

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“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”– Christopher Columbus

65.

“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”– Talmund

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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”– Dr Wayne Dyer

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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”– Theodore Rubin

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“Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.”– Anonymous

69.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”– Thomas A Edison

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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”– B. Olatunji

71.

“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”– Franklin D Roosevelt

72.

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”– Zig Ziglar

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“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.”– Dennis Green

74.

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”– Muhammad Ali

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”– Dale Carnegie

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“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”– Christopher Reeve

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“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”– Steven J Ross

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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”– Confucious

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“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A Edison

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“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”– Stephen Covey

81.

“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”– Peter Drucker

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“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”– Donald Gardner

83.

“You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.– Zig Ziglar

84.

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.”– Zig Ziglar

85.

“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”– Hubert Humphrey

86.

“Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.”– Jim Rohn

87.

“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”– Jim Rohn

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“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”– Mahatma Gandhi

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“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”– Victor Hugo

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“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”– Po Bronson

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Waldo Emerson

92.

“Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”– Henry van Dyke

93.

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”– Bertrand Russell

94.

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”– Winston Churchill

95.

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.”– George Bernard Shaw

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“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.”– Harold B Melchart

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“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”– Anonymous

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“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”– Pope John Paul I

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“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”– Earl Shoaf

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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” —  Herm Albright

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“Attitudes are contagious.  Are yours worth catching?” — Dennis and Wendy Mannering

102.

“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?” — Henry Moore

103.

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire

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“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” — Arthur Christopher Benson

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“If the sky falls, hold up your hands.” -Anonymous

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“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.”— Emory Austin

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“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong … Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”—  Thich Nhat Hanh

109.

“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”— Eudora Welty

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“The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it.”— Will Foley

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“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”— Publius Terentius Afer

112.

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”— Maori Proverb

113.

“We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.”— Author Unknown

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“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.”— Jon Kabat-Zinn

115.

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”— Albert Einstein

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“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”— Marcus Antonius

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“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.”— Ken S. Keyes

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“When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.”— Author Unknown

119.

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”— Robert Brault

120.

“If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.”— Author Unknown

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“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”— Oscar Wilde

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“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”— Cavett Robert

123.

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

124.

“True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.”— Charles Caleb Colton

125.

“Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them.”— Author Unknown

126.

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”— Hugh Downs

127.

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”— Katherine Mansfield

128.

“Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.”— Ralph Marston

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“Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.”— Francesca Reigler

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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”— Samuel Johnson

131.

“I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.”— Winston Churchill

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“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.”~David Ambrose

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“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”— Vince Lombardi

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“It isn’t our position but our disposition which makes us happy.”— Author Unknown

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“Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts.  It’s what you do with what you have left.”— Hubert Humphrey

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“Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.”— Author Unknown

137.

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”— William James

138.

“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.”— Dennis S. Brown

139.

“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”— William J. Bennett

140.

“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”— Alex Karras

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“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”— Eckhart Tolle

142.

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”— Anthony J. D’Angelo

143.

“You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.”— Carrie Latet

144.

“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”— Joe Clark

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“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”— Thomas Carlyle

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“To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”— James Allen

147.

“Whenever you fall, pick something up.”— Oswald Avery

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“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”— William Allen White

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“I don’t like that man.  I must get to know him better.”— Abraham Lincoln

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“The sun won’t shine until you put the umbrella away.  Be free.”— Author Unknown

 

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