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Why does positive thinking works for some but fails for ...
Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/6 (163 reads)

The sucess of positive thinking depends on a couple of factors. These factors can be considered as the pillars of positive thinking concept. If any of these factors are missing then the concept fails. These factors are:

  1. Desire
  2. Belief
  3. Acceptance
  4. Patience
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Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (570 reads)
  1. When we dream alone it remains only a dream. When we dream together, it is not just a dream; it is the beginning of reality. - Dom Helder Camara
  2. Viewpoint is the deciding factor as to how you experience life. - Dick Sutphen
  3. A man is literally what he thinks. - James Allen (English new thought author, 1864-1912)
  4. A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Transcendentalist, 1803-1882)
  5. Affirmations are one of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to change the quality of our lives, and to create the things we want. - Mark Allen (contemporary author)
  6. An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S. (American author and surgeon, 1899-1975)
  7. Believing something can be done paves the way for creative solutions. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D. (American educator and author, 20th century)
  8. Beware of what you want for you will get it. - Ralph Waldo Emers
  9. Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Rev. Norman Vincent Peale (American minister, author, and publisher, 1898-1993)
  10. Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen. - Peace Pilgrim (American peace activist, 1908 - 1981)
  11. Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude. - Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand's most famous writer, 1888-1923) 
  12. Creative thinking is simply finding new, improved ways to do anything. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D. 
  13. Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens? - Mark Twain (Roughing It) 
  14. Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (Auxiliary Bishop of New York, author, TV and radio personality, 1895-1979)
  15. Each one sees what he carries in his heart. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (German writer, scientist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
  16. Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. - Ayn Rand (author, philosopher, 1905-1982)
  17. Expect victory and you make victory. - Preston Bradley
  18. Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surly as water gravitates to the ocean. - Napoleon Hill
  19. From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion. - Emile Coue (French author and healer, 1857-1926)
  20. Great hearts send forth steadily the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  21. Great men are those who see that thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  22. How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  23. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein (Polish composer and mystical philosopher, 1887-1982)
  24. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau (Transcendentalist, philosopher, poet, author, 1817-1862)
  25. If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. - William James
  26. Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in the world. - Blaise Pascal (French mathematician and spiritual writer, 1623 - 1662)
  27. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham (French novelist, 1874 - 1965)
  28. It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths. - Emile Coue
  29. Let muddy water stand and it will become clear. - Lao Tsu, (Taoist philosopher, 605 - 530 BC)
  30. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. - Ernest Holmes (Founder of Divine Science, 1887 - 1960)
  31. Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought. - Napoleon Hill
  32. Look at things, not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  33. Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov (Russian dramatist, 1860-1904)
  34. Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude. A man's attitude will create the situations he imagines. - James Allen
  35. Mind is the creator of everything. - Paramahamsa Yogananda (Indian guru, 1893 - 1952)
  36. Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears. - Richard Wilkins
  37. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis (contemporary American auhor)
  38. Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe. - Emile Coue
  39. Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires. - Orison Swett Marden (Founder of Success Magazine, 1850-1924)
  40. Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius
  41. Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. - Frederico Fellini (Italian filmmaker, 1920-1993)
  42. People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  43. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard (American educator, 1900-1974)
  44. Recall your little victories and accomplishments. Go over the reasons why you are glad to be alive. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  45. Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see. See the good side and conquer defeat. All things do work together for good if you'll just develop a clear vision. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  46. Riches begin in the form of thought. - Napoleon Hill
  47. The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell
  48. The mind is a place of it's own. It can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven. - John Milton (author, Paradise Lost, 1608-1674)
  49. The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help! - Napoleon Hill
  50. The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought. - Emile Coue
  51. The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action. - Andre Godin (French socialist, philosopher, 1817-1888)
  52. The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  53. The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires. - Napoleon Hill 
  54. The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck." - Napoleon Hill
  55. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright (architect, 1867 - 1959) 
  56. The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go. - Henry B. Wilson
  57. There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. - Napoleon Hill 
  58. There is nothing either good or bad, except that thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 
  59. They can because they think they can. - Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, Greek author, 70-19 BC) 
  60. Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. - Henry Ford (American automobile manufacturer, 1863-1947) 
  61. Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. - Henry David Thoreau 
  62. Thoughts are things. - Ernest Holmes 
  63. Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are, and thoughts of your mind will make you whatever you become from this day forward. - Catherine Ponder (Unity Church) 
  64. Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow. - Rev. Norman Vincent Peale 
  65. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. - Francis Marion Crawford (American author, 1854 - 1909) 
  66. We are what we believe we are. - Benjamin N. Cardozo (Supreme Court Justice, 1870-1938) 
  67. We become what we think about. - Earl Nightingale 
  68. We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings. - Emile Coue 
  69. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese poet, philosopher, and artist, 1883-1931) 
  70. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin (French-born American author, 1903-1977) 
  71. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock (English naturalist, banker, statesman, 1834-1913) 
  72. What you are comes to you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  73. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
  74. When you believe, your mind finds ways to do. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D. 
  75. Whenever imagination and will come into conflict it is always imagination that triumphs. - Emile Coue 
  76. Why not imagine yourself successful? - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S. 
  77. With a pencil and paper you can tie your mind to a problem. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D. 
  78. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen
  79. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. - James Allen
  80. Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will. - Charles Baudelaire (French poet, critic, translator, 1821-1867)
  81. The way we see the problem is the problem. - Stephen R. Covey (contemporary American author)
  82. As one thinketh in his heart, so is he. - The Prophet David
  83. The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning. - Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970)
  84. The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. - Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
  85. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. - Napoleon Hill
  86. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
  87. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James (psychologist, author, and philosopher 1842-1910)
  88. Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. - Mark Twain (American author, 1835-1910)
  89. To do good is noble. To teach others to do good is nobler... And less trouble. - Mark Twain
  90. When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain
  91. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus (Roman Greek-born slave and Stoic philosopher, 55-135 AD)
  92. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
  93. Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell (English poet, 1847-1922)
  94. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. - Plato (427-347 BC)
  95. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them. - George Bernard Shaw (Irish-born British dramatist, 1856-1950)
  96. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln (American statesman and president, 1809-1865)
  97. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell (English mathematician and philosopher, 1872-1970)
  98. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. - William Lyon Phelps (American educator and journalist, 1865-1943)
  99. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius (Stoic, Roman Emperor, 121 - 180 A.D.)
  100. A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter. - Peace Pilgrim
  101. A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it. - Peace Pilgrim
  102. Against the assault of humor nothing can stand. - Mark Twain (The Mysterious Stranger)
  103. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (English philosopher, 1788-1860)
  104. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect. - Peace Pilgrim
  105. Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems. - Peace Pilgrim
  106. Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion. - Emile Coue
  107. Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  108. If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. - Saint Augustine (Christian theologian, 354-430 AD)
  109. If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation. - Peace Pilgrim
  110. It takes quite a while for the living to catch up with the believing, but of course it can. As we live up to the highest light we have, more light is given. - Peace Pilgrim
  111. Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come. - Peace Pilgrim
  112. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead (American anthropologist, 1901 - 1978)
  113. Nothing is too good to be true. - Ernest Holmes
  114. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, foremost British novelist of her time, 1819-1880)
  115. Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet. - Peace Pilgrim
  116. People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can. - Peace Pilgrim
  117. Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned. - Emile Coue
  118. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln
  119. The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure. - Peace Pilgrim
  120. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
  121. Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it. - Henry Ford
  122. To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit which serves as the life-blood of our own country - your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents. - Napoleon Hill
  123. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. - Og Mandino (The Greatest Salesman in the World)
  124. Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war. - Peace Pilgrim
  125. We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is. - Peace Pilgrim
  126. What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it. - Mohandas Gandhi
  127. When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony. - Peace Pilgrim
  128. When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction! - Peace Pilgrim
  129. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture. - Peace Pilgrim
  130. You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
  131. If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us struggle together. - Lila Watson
  132. I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of. - Peace Pilgrim
  133. The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. - Henry Maudsley (1835-1918)
  134. A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that. - Earl Nightingale
  135. All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
  136. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.- Abraham Lincoln
  137. Circumstances? What are circumstances? I make circumstances. - Napoleon Bonaparte
  138. First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition. - Napoleon Hill
  139. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  140. It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane. - Charles Lindbergh
  141. Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of. - Peace Pilgrim
  142. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale
  143. Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. - Napoleon Hill
  144. That is the failure point with many people. They never get anywhere because they have only a hazy idea where they want to go, what they want to do. No objective leads to no end. - Rev. Norman Vincent Peale
  145. The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.- W.J. Davison
  146. To accomplish something, we must plan to accomplish something. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  147. We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. - Earl Nightingale
  148. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert Schuller
  149. You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. - Denis Waitley (American motivational speaker)
  150. Let the beauty we love be what we do. - Jelaluddin Rumi (Middle Eastern poet, 1207-1273)
  151. I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives. - Peace Pilgrim
  152. Dictators don't last long. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  153. Every good thing you do, every good thing you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by the good, but the good remains forever. - Peace Pilgrim
  154. Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good. - Peace Pilgrim
  155. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie (English detective story writer, 1891-1976)
  156. If the right thing is established the wrong thing will fade away of its own accord because all things that are out of harmony contain within themselves the seeds of their own destruction. - Peace Pilgrim
  157. It is said that hate injures the hater, not the hated. - Peace Pilgrim
  158. Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks. - Phillip Brooks
  159. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel Cervantes (Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet, 1547-1616)
  160. We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken. - Earl Nightingale
  161. When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other. - Stephen R. Covey
  162. Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. The remedy: Become acquainted with the thing you fear. - Peace Pilgrim
  163. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. - Peace Pilgrim
  164. A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. - Mark Twain 
  165. Etiquette requires us to admire the human race. - Mark Twain
  166. Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly. - Mark Twain
  167. Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses. - Napoleon Hill
  168. You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hatable. It takes brains to see the difference. - Robert Frost (American poet, 1874-1963)
  169. If you're a Republican, make sure you have some friends who are Democrats, and vice-versa. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  170. A positive approach inspires; a negative approach makes angry. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. - Peace Pilgrim
  171. Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  172. Give first-class treatment to your employees and you get first-class cooperation, first-class output. Think first-class about everyone around you and you'll receive first-class results. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  173. I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it. - Mark Twain
  174. If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity. - Peace Pilgrim
  175. It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. - Mark Twain (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
  176. Life is too short to be little. - Benjamin Disraeli
  177. Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. - Friedrich von Schiller (German dramatist, poet, historian, 1759-1805)
  178. Plant service and harvest money. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  179. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. - Albert Schweitzer (Philosopher, physician, and humanitarian, 1875 - 1965)
  180. The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. - Napoleon Hill
  181. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. - Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
  182. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us. - Arlene Raven
  183. The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. - Thomas Drier
  184. The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. - Napoleon Hill
  185. There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes. - Mark Twain
  186. They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. - Mark Twain
  187. Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be." - Stephen R. Covey
  188. Treat everyone with dignity. Remind yourself that the primary purpose in life is to enjoy it. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  189. We are lifted to higher levels by those who know us as likable, personable individuals. Every friend you make lifts you just one notch higher. And, being likable makes you lighter to lift. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  190. We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. - Elbert Hubbard (American publisher, moralist, author, 1856-1915)
  191. We deserve the kind of treatment we think we deserve. Thinking does make it so. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  192. We learn nothing from telling, but there is no limit to what we can learn by asking and listening. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  193. We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed. - Peace Pilgrim
  194. What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible. - Peace Pilgrim
  195. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark eTwain
  196. Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mohandas Gandhi (Indian spiritual political leader, 1869-1948)
  197. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou (contemporary author and peace activist)
  198. A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  199. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. - Alexandre Dumas (French writer, 1802-1870)
  200. Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande (American writer, 1893-1948)
  201. Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez, (contemporary singer-songwriter, peace activist)
  202. Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  203. All passions exaggerate. It is because they do that they are passions. - Nicholas de Chamford (French writer, 1741-1794)
  204. All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. - William Ellery Channing (minister, writer, 1780-1842)
  205. As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  206. As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  207. Being self-critical is constructive. It helps you to build personal strength and efficiency needed for success. Blaming others is destructive. You gain absolutely nothing from 'proving that someone else is wrong.' - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  208. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  209. Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  210. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli (English statesman, novelist, 1804-1881)
  211. Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  212. Give me a man who sings at his work. - Thomas Carlyle (Scottish essayist, historian, 1795-1881)
  213. I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for. - Peace Pilgrim
  214. I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation. - Mike Todd
  215. If I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. - Abraham Lincoln 
  216. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. - Peace Pilgrim
  217. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success. - David V.A. Ambrose
  218. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist or negative thought. Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate very strongly on positive thoughts. - Peace Pilgrim
  219. If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself. - Peace Pilgrim
  220. In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom. - Paramahamsa Yogananda
  221. It is not through judgment that the good in people can be reached, but through love and faith. - Peace Pilgrim
  222. Kindness gives birth to kindness. - Sophocles (Greek playwright, c. 496-406 BC)
  223. Know your positive self. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  224. Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Ivern Ball
  225. Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences. - Peace Pilgrim
  226. Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold. - Peace Pilgrim
  227. Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own. - Paramahamsa Yogananda
  228. My attitudes are more important than my intelligence. - David J. Schwartz Ph.D.
  229. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
  230. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - W.W. Ziege
  231. Only you can command yourself to apply this training. Only you can evaluate the progress. Only you can bring about corrective action if you slip a little bit. In short, you are going to train yourself to achieve bigger and bigger success. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  232. Opinions are the cheapest commodity on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. - Napoleon Hill
  233. Optimism is an Intellectual choice. - Diana Schneider
  234. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
  235. Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick. - Dr. Frank Crane
  236. Pay no attention to what the critics say. There has never been a statue erected to a critic. - Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
  237. See what can be, not just what is. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  238. See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  239. Stop worrying and start living. - Dale Carnegie
  240. Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. - Paramahamsa Yogananda
  241. That the thing that upsets people is not so much what happens, but what they think about what happens. - Epictetus
  242. The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example. - Peace Pilgrim
  243. The fault finder will find faults even in paradise. - Henry David Thoreau
  244. The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it. - Peace Pilgrim
  245. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington
  246. The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. - William James
  247. The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  248. The price tag the world puts on us is just about identical to the one we put on ourselves. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  249. The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  250. The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.- Grenville Kleiser (1863-1953) writer
  251. Think enthusiasm and you'll be enthusiastic. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  252. Think more of yourself and there is more of you. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  253. To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
  254. To gain respect of others, you must first think you deserve respect. The more respect you have for yourself, the more respect others will have for you. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  255. To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that. - Rev. Norman Vincent Peale
  256. To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.' - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  257. Unthaw and become more natural. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  258. Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  259. We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max Depree
  260. We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. - Mark Twain
  261. When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  262. Worry is a useless mulling over of things you can't change - it's a total waste of time and energy. - Peace Pilgrim
  263. Worry is not concern - concern is good. Concern leads you to do everything possible in a situation. - Peace Pilgrim
  264. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Scottish Proverb
  265. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keys, Jr. (American author, 1921-1995)
  266. It is an orderly universe, and the suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives - it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson. - Peace Pilgrim
  267. The how-to-do-it always comes to the person who believes he can do it. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  268. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Hannah More (British Reformer and Philanthropist, 1745-1833)
  269. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace (poet in Greece and Rome, 65-8 BC)
  270. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln
  271. Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
  272. Failure cannot cope with persistence. - Napoleon Hill
  273. If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. - Peace Pilgrim
  274. If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained. - Peace Pilgrim
  275. If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off. - Catherine Ponder
  276. Its we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths. - Emile Coue
  277. Life is a mixture of successes and failures. Be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. - Peace Pilgrim
  278. Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences. - Peace Pilgrim
  279. Money, influence and position are as nothing compared with brains, principle, energy and perseverance. - Orison Swett Marden, Success Magazine
  280. The season of failure is the best time for sewing the seeds of success. - Paramahamsa Yogananda
  281. Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - Unknown
  282. We can turn setbacks into victories. Find the lesson, apply it and move on. Then look back on defeat and smile. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  283. When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective. - Paramahamsa Yogananda
  284. When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. - Peace Pilgrim
  285. You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.- Ray Bradbury
  286. A problem, a difficulty, becomes unsolvable only when you think it is unsolvable. Attract solutions by believing that solutions are possible. Refuse, simply refuse, to even let yourself say or think that it's impossible. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  287. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain
  288. Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. - Mark Twain
  289. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing
  290. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France (1844-1924)
  291. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. - Peace Pilgrim
  292. Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. - Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President
  293. Life is a series of problems. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
  294. Never mind what "they" say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they," perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill
  295. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
  296. Temporary defeat is not permanent failure - Napoleon Hill
  297. There is a good side to every situation, and when we find the good side, we automatically whip discouragement and defeat. - David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  298. We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. - Walt Kelly (animator and cartoonist, creator of Pogo, 1913-1973)
  299. We limit ourselves by thinking that things can't be done. It's the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it. - Peace Pilgrim
 
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Pillars of the concept of positive thinking
Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (287 reads)

The sucess of positive thinking depends on a couple of factors. These factors can be considered as the pillars of positive thinking concept. If any of these factors are missing then the concept fails. Lets see what these factors are:

DESIRE

Most people find no problem in establishing this pillar in there life.

When trying positive thinking in general, you should have the desire to be positive in life.

When trying positive thinking to improve a particular situation, you should have the desire to improve the same. Here desire does not mean addictive, grasping desire, but a clear, strong feeling or purpose.

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Scientific Explanation For Positive Thinking
Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (288 reads)

 DO WE CREATE OUR OWN DESTINY?

ENERGY

The Scientific world is now beginning to discover that everything in this world is nothing but one or the other form of energy. The physical universe is not really composed of any matter at all, but its basic component is a kind of force or essence termed as energy by science.

Things may appear to be solid matter at the level on which our senses perceive them, but these are made of smaller and smaller particles within particles, which eventually turn out to be pure energy.

Energy is vibrating at different rates of speed thus has different qualities from finer to denser. It's easier to alter or change a finer or lighter form of energy compared to the denser ones. And all forms of energy are inter-related and affect one another

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Positive Thinking In Brief
Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (752 reads)

Positive Thinking In Brief

In todays world, more and more people speak about the power of positive thinking. It is a concept that has a very high view of human nature and ability. Its advocates teach that the human mind has the power to turn wishes into reality through optimism. In other words The Power Of Positive thinking refers to the power of creating thoughts, which create and focus energy into reality. To bring into creation a positive outcome, which you see as a benefit to yourself or others.

Positive thinking is a mental attitude that admits into the mind thoughts, words and images that are conductive to growth, expansion and success. It is a mental attitude that expects good and favourable results. A positive mind anticipates happiness, joy, health and a successful outcome of every situation and action. Whatever the mind expects, it finds. This is a powerful tool that everybody has, but a lot of people are not aware of it.

Positive Thinking includes:

  1. Our innate capability to produce desired outcomes with positive thoughts.
  2. Having belief in possibilities even when the facts seem to indicate otherwise.
  3. Making creative choices.
  4. Meeting problems head on.
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