90 Quotes about the Way You Think. - Inspiring And Positive Quotes

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
― Marcus Aurelius

Attitude is the way of thinking about something or someone. A positive attitude is very important and brings optimism in life. It keeps negative thinking at bay and makes a person happier. Positive attitude also increases one’s productivity.

When you change the way you think it can help you transform the way you think about yourself, about others, and about the situations that you are facing in your life today. The world that you create begins with your thoughts. Reframe your old ways of thinking with a new and improved mindset.

The author of the book The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you can change your world.” Can we really alter our future by changing the way we think? Beliefs form the basis of everything people say, think, and do. When people change their beliefs, they change their behavior, which changes their lives.

You have the power and ability to create the life you want and change your world by changing your thoughts. So, every cloud has a silver lining. Find that silver lining today.

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu

“Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
― John Spense

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.
― John Spense

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
― Judy Garland

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.
― John Spense

Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
― John Spense

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
― John Spense

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
― Michael McMillian

You must plant the seeds of trees under which you will never sit.
― John Spense

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
― John Spense

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau

Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind.
― John Spense

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.
― John Spense

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.
― John Spense

When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are.
― John Spense

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.
― John Spense

What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.
― John Spense

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
― John Spense

Whatever you fill your brain with and whomever you spend your time with… will determine your life a decade from now.
― John Spense

When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way.
― John Spense

When values are clear, decisions are easy.
― John Spense

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it’s time to change the people around you.
― John Spense

You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
― John Spense

“People are anxious to improve
their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves.
That is why they remain bound.”
― James Allen

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
― John Spense

All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts.
― John Spense

Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
― John Spense

“At the end of the day – the long day of your life – as people stand around your grave no one will talk about how big your house was, or how many cars you owned, or your boat or plane… they will only talk about ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY: LOVE! How much you loved them and how much they loved you. So, the goal then is to live a life of love. That is all.”
– John Spence

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
― John Spense

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
― John Spense

Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
― John Spense

Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
― John Spense

To be successful in life you must have a PLAN:
PREPARE for the journey
LAUNCH into action –
ADJUST as you go –
NETWORK with those who know.
―Tom Morris

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
― John Spense

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it.
― John Spense

Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and move on.
― John Spense

Good is the enemy of great.
― John Spense

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.
― John Spense

Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you.
― John Spense

Hope is NOT a strategy.
― John Spense

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure ―
It is: Try to please everybody.
― John Spense

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do
― John Spense

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so.
― John Spense

If you just help enough other people get what they need, you will get everything you need.
― John Spense

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
― John Spense

If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
― John Spense

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
― John Spense

Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you to appreciate the things you once had.
― John Spense

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
― John Spense

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
― John Spense

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.
― John Spense

Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.
― John Spense

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
― John Spense

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
― John Spense

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.
― John Spense

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.
― John Spense

People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
― James Ellen

People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.
― John Spense

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
― John Spense

Saying someone is ugly doesn’t make you any prettier.
― John Spense

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
― John Spense

Sometimes people don’t notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
― John Spense

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
― John Spense

Strive for excellence not perfection.
― John Spense

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
― John Spense

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
― John Spense

The Four Agreements (by Miguel Ruiz)

1. Be Impeccable with your Word:
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally:
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions:
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best:
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
― John Spense

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair, and easy – it becomes simple, fair, and easy.
― John Spense

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.
― John Spense

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (by Stephen Covey)

Independence or Self-Mastery

The First Three Habits surround moving from dependence to independence (i.e., self-mastery):

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Take initiative in life by realizing that your decisions (and how they align with life’s principles) are the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Take responsibility for your choices and the subsequent consequences that follow.

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Self-discover and clarify your deeply important character values and life goals. Envision the ideal characteristics for each of your various roles and relationships in life.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Plan, prioritize, and execute your week’s tasks based on importance rather than urgency. Evaluate whether your efforts exemplify your desired character values, propel you toward goals, and enrich the roles and relationships that were elaborated in Habit 2.

Interdependence

The next three have to do with Interdependence (i.e., working with others):

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Genuinely strive for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a “win” for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten his way.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

Use empathic listening to be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, respect, and positive problem solving.

Habit 6: Synergize

Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could have done alone. Get the best performance out of a group of people through encouraging meaningful contribution, and modeling inspirational and supportive leadership.

Self-Renewal

The Last habit relates to self-rejuvenation:

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. And learn from the mistakes.
― Stephen Covey

The Six Mistakes of Man by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.–43 B.C.)
I. The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
II. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
III. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
IV. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
V. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
VI. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
― John Spense

There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.
― John Spense

The Seven Cs of Success by Tom Morris
1. A clear CONCEPTION of what we want, a vivid vision, a goal clearly imagined.
2. A strong CONFIDENCE that we can attain the goal.
3. A focus CONCENTRATION on what it takes to reach the goal.
4. A stubborn CONSISTENCY in pursuing our vision.
5. And emotional COMMITMENT to the importance of what we are doing.
6. A good CHARACTER to guide us and keep us on the proper course.
7. A CAPACITY to enjoy the process along the way.