Top 1200 Power Of Positive Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I think, to me, power really is being able to have some kind of resonance and to be able to impact other people's lives in a positive way.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything.

If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.

I'm very into positive thinking. The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, "No, no, that's not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything's great, everything's good, you're going to be fine."

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that's not reality and no one's perfect.

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

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

I've come to the conclusion that we're all responsible for our own happiness and the happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. I'm a big believer in positive thinking.

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.

The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power. You don't possess power, power possesses you. Power uses you.

People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

My husband and my son are both such positive-thinking optimists. Together, they've succeeded in making me a bit like them. I am looking at the brighter side of life and enjoying this phase of my life the most.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

If you have a positive frame of mind, you can manifest positive things in your life.

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power, existing in singleness. It bestirs itself and assumes a determinate aspect by turning into Thinking (Nous, i.e. Mind), from which comes forth the Thought (Epinoia). As soon as thought is born out of the thinking silence, suddenly one has become two.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

I think that if you stay positive and remain positive, you can definitely achieve the things you set out to.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

I am just very positive in my mind, my shot selection is positive.