It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

We are our choices.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.