Martin Seligman Quotes

For me, all my negative thoughts that I have about, 'How did you miss that pitch? Why did you miss that pitch? You shouldn't have missed that pitch.' I just kind of sit there and kind of crush it up, and once I'm done doing that... I just kind of toss it aside.

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

Optimism can be relearnt.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I don't torture myself.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.