Martin Seligman Quotes

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

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

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

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

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.