If you doubt positive affirmations work or are looking for a bit of inspiration to get you going with your own positive affirmation, take a look at the following quotes on the power of positive affirmations from the world’s leading authors, teachers, and leaders.
Positive Affirmation Quotes
- “Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.” – Eric Maisel
- “Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.” – Robert Collier
- “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” – Allen Klein
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. ” – Willie Nelson
- “Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
- “Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!” – Donna Karan
- “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers
- “In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama
- “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” – Colin Powell
- “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer
- “It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy, and it keeps you resilient.” – Daniel Kahneman
- “You’ve done it before, and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” – Ralph Marston
- “People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, just touch those things and make them bloom?” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative, an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.” – Harvey Mackay
- “The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
- “My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow is a fresh opportunity to make it better.” – Unknow
- “It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.” – Robert A. Cook
- “It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” – Ellen DeGeneres
- “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” – Brian Tracy
- “A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.” – Chuck Norris
- “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelso
- “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “POSITIVE: The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Winston Churchill
- “Much of our pain or misery in life stems from our own outlook towards the situation. A paralyzed person can also be happy, so can be a financially poor family.” – Amit Ahlawat
- “Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “I only speak positively about those in my world. Negativity has no part in my life.” – Louise Hay.
- “I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”- Muhammad Ali
- Choose the positive. You have a choice. You are the master of your attitude. Choose the positive, the constructive.” – Bruce Lee
- “Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.” – Louise Hay
- “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habit. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.” – Lee J. Colan
- “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.” – DMX
- “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” – Mark Cuban
- “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” – Louise Hay
- “You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimism.” ― Jennifer Crusie
- “It’s a funny thing about life; once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things you lack.” – Germany Kent
- “To be happy is to think positively, confidently, and optimistically.” – Dr T.P.Chia
- “Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude will determine how you’re going to live your life.” – Joel Osteen
- “I’m taking all the negatives in my life and turning them into a positive.” – Pitbull
- “Positive energy is attracted to positive energy.” – Deborah Day
- “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.” ― Janice Trachtman
- “When you think positive, good things happen.” – Matt Kemp
- “I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.” – Louise Hay.
- “If you are waking up believing that there is more to life than there is — then there is more for you out there.” – Oscar Auliq-Ice
- “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L Hay.
- “Some days, there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” – Emory Austin
- “Instead of saying, “I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues,” say “I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.” – Horacio Jones
- “When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” – Louise Hay
- “Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
- “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin
- “Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.” – Amit Ray
- “If you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.” – Jodi Picoult
- “Thoughts become things. Choose the good ones!” – Mike Dooley
- “Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives.” – Kevin Ansbro
- “It’s not strength; it’s PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you’ll change how you FEEL about it.” – Yvonne Pierre
- “Cursing is an affirmation, worrying is an affirmation, and hatred is an affirmation.” – Louise Hay.
- “Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “If you ever walk down a path surrounding by negative energy, look for the fork in the path then cross over to the positive side.” – Victoria Addino
- “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” – Stephen Covey
- “Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.” – Charles F. Glassman
- “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller
- “Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with a consistent focus on your goals and desires.” – Stephen Richards
- “It’s a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive, so even under adverse circumstances, think positively.” – Dr. Amit Abraham
- “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers
- “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives, and this, in turn, attracts more abundance and joy towards them.” – Stephen Richards
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” – Rodolfo Costa
- “You are blessed. You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.” – Amit Ray
- “When you think and say, “I can,” confidence and happiness will fill your entire being.”- Unknown
- “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
- “Positive thinking helps you become decisive and courageous in small matters and in big matters.” – Unknown
- “Happy thoughts fill your life with happiness.” – Unknown
- “Every thought we think is creating our future. ” – Louise L Hay
- “As I say yes to life, life says yes to me.” – Louise L Hay
- “It is only a thought, and a thought can be changed” – Louise L Hay
- “Look at the ‘problems’ in your life. Ask yourself, ‘What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?” – Louise L Hay
- “You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.” – Bernie Siegel
- “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results.” – Wade Boggs
- “Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “I say looking on the bright side of life has never killed anybody.” – Jenny Han
- “If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!” – Jesse Jackson
- “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.” – Unknown
- “Discipline your mind to think positively. Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every intent.” – Brainhackquotes
- “One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
- “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
- “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” – Harvey Mackay
- “We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far” – Swami Vivekananda
- “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
- “I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people’s thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.” – Finn Balor
- “When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.” – Joel Osteen
- “If things aren’t going so well, I try to stay positive and not give in to negative thoughts.” – Rosanna Arquette
- “Positive people have negative thoughts; they just don’t let those thoughts grow and destroy them.” – Unknown
- “Yet, to a large extent, by our thoughts and attitudes, we distill out of the ingredients of life either happiness or unhappiness for ourselves. Anyone who desires it, who wills it, and who learns and applies the right formula may become a happy person.” – Unknown
