Bill Clinton Quotes

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

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.

I'm just always trying to be positive. Negative things happen to everybody. Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

A positive mindset, not a doomsday mentality, supports being exceptional.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

Stop thinking of failing.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results. But if you feel like you're going to make it through and you have positive thoughts, you have a much better chance to survive and be successful and happy.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.