Brene Brown Quotes

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.

Hope is really a thought.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

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.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need guidance on how to think negatively. But we do need guidance on how to think positively. People that write books on how to do that are multimillionaires.

Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There's so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.

Even if things are not going well for you... just stay in the positive way of thinking.

Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.

But I try to always have a positive mind about things.

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

It's only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones.