Michelle Kwan Quotes

People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don't love. And people who are struggling, think and talk about what they don't love more than what they do love.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

I choose to focus on the positive.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

I try to make everything a positive, even if it comes off negative.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening

If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.