J. Donald Walters Quotes

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

To stay positive, you have to be very strong mentally.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

It takes a big person to avoid small worries.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.