Ellen Goodman Quotes

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

I really want to feel that I'm in a very balanced and good place in my life. And I do feel that. But I think it's always important to learn and draw little bits of inspiration from wherever we can.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.

I love to inspire and get inspired.

You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves.

Next time you look in the mirror, close your eyes and ask yourself when you feel like the best version of you. When you open them, act on that.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

You can always do more than you think you can.