Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.
Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.
I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.
What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.
If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.
Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.
The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.
Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.
