Charles Stanley Quotes

Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.

You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.

When you're down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

Shake it off and move on.

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Being joyful is a choice.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

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.