Positive Affirmations & Positive Thinking to Manifest Change
Develop a powerful positive mindset. Learn how to use Affirmations and Positive thinking to manifest positive life changes.
Below are many of our favorite quotes.
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope. - Max Gunther
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. - Baruch Spinoza
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
If you don't run your own life, someone else will. - John Atkinson
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. - Anonymous
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
Angels are beings of light, and their messages glow with God. Sometimes they don’t even have to say anything, but their presence alone communicates clearly the love and protection of God. - Gary Kinnaman, "Angels Dark and Light"
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
Forgiveness is the "angelic road" that leads to healing. - Eileen Elias Freeman, "Angelic Healing"
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. - Les Brown
First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world. - Rabbi Israel Salanter
Angels will protect us from ourselves as we want and request. - Dan Martell, "About Angels"
The angels are pure enthusiasm, vibrating at such a high point that the least little connection with the angels fills us with God. - Terry Lynn Taylor, "Angel Days"
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. - Sufi epigram
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing
Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide
Speaking with your angels is easier than you may think. Your angels want to connect with you even more than you want to connect with them. - Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, "The Angelspeak Storybook"
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa
"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity." - Edward Weeks
Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen. - Marianne Williamson, "Illuminated Prayers"
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
Kindness makes a fellow feel good, whether it’s being done to him or by him. - Frank A. Clark
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes Jr.
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." - Zora Neale Hurston
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. - Paul Scherer
Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for? - Oprah
It’s important the people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for. - Mary H. Waldrip
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. - Anonymous
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus
Are you humbly grateful? Or grumbly hateful? - Pastor Roland Smith
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all. - Miguel de Cervantes
I know that when I am happy in my own backyard, I will be happy wherever I go. The angels go with me. - Terry Lynn Taylor, "Angel Days"
All beginnings require that you unlock a new door. - Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
Life's a dance. Put on your dancing shoes. - Steve Winwood
If heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen. - Nancy Gibbs, "TIME," December 27, 1993
The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you. - Buddha
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore
"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older one climbs with surprising strides." - George Sand
I ask the angels to help me be a positive force of love on earth. I will go where I am needed. - Terry Lynn Taylor, "Angel Days"
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa
"Your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now" - Judith Malina
How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God's carefully orchestrated plan for your life. - Gary Kinnaman, "Angels Dark and Light"
The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill. - W. Clement Stone
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. - Thomas Fuller
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? - Pablo Casals
"Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneurs are all about doing what people have told them is impossible." - Hunt Greene
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - Henri Stendhal
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. - Lydia M. Child
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. - Han Suyin
Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen. - Marianne Williamson, "Illuminated Prayers"
"Nothing happens until you decide." - Oprah Winfrey
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. - Confucius
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Charles A. Beard
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. - Edward Young
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. - Albert Schweitzer
Angels tolerate and accept our shortcomings. We'd do well to emulate the example. - Dan Martell, "About Angels"
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. - William James
Angels sometimes block our path because we are heading in the wrong direction. - Ann Spangler, "An Angel a Day"
Angels impart a calmness that assures us of God's endurance. - Kathryn Schein
In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up. - R.H. Grenville
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln
Angels are sent here to guide us through our lives. They are not here to force us into any action; if they were we would never have to learn anything, and that wouldn’t be the point of life at all. - Margaret Neylon
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Smells are the fallen angels of the senses. - Helen Keller
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William A. Ward
Angels guide their immortal lives by the law of Love, not by our desires, however noble they may be. - Eileen Elias Freeman, "Touched by Angels"
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Wright Edelman
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? - A Course in Miracles
The distance isn't important; it is only the first step that is difficult." - Marquise du Deffand
May God grant you always A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. - Irish saying
Listen for your angel's voice in music, in kind words, and in loving thoughts. - Suzanne Siegel Zenkel, "Your Secret Angel"
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin
It is vital that people "count their blessings" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. - Abraham Maslow
Don't wait until you're entirely ready to make a change. We can always find some excuse not to act. Just taking one step will give you the momentum to pursue your goal. Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. - Ralph Charell
Don't cross the stream to look for water. - Swedish Proverb
In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer "Thy will be done." - David Connolly, In Search of Angels
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot
Don't let other people tell you what you want. - Pat Riley
Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing. - Randolph Bourne
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure. - Robert Hillyer
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vault Starr
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
For every angel fluttering through the skies, there is a divine counterpart here on Earth. Each of us has a golden celestial self just waiting to be awakened. - "Angels in Our Midst"
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W.M. Lewis
Every time you see someone in distress, you have the opportunity to work as a team with Heaven’s angels. You become the channel for your angels to provide loving care to those in need. - Doreen Virtue
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. - Rumi
Angels, always present and aware of our needs, are most humble. They do not interfere in our lives unless we invite them to do so. They usually communicate with us in the silence of our interior understanding: we "hear" angels with our hearts. - Janice T. Connell, "Angel Power"
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. - William Allen White
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. - Deepak Chopra
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. - Thomas Szasz
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Hannah More
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Lawrence J. Peter
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn. - Unknown
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it. - Seneca
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. - Ruth E. Renkel
The very presence of an angel is a communication. Even when an angel crosses our path in silence, God has said to us, 'I am here. I am present in your life.' - Tobias Palmer, "An Angel in My House"
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. - Aiden Nowlan
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble. - Sam Keen
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. - Richard Nelson
When you are lonely, empty and afraid, remember this: An angel who loves and cares for you is somewhere looking for the medicine you need. Look for the medicine messages your angel sends you in its absence…in a rainbow, a dew-sparking spider web, a falling feather or snowflake, or a stranger’s smile… - Stephanie June Sorrell
Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past. - Landrum Bolling
When the stars are twinkling, an angel awaits your prayers. - Kathryn Schein
You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan
Our angels cradle our every prayer in their hands, laying it confidently before the throne of God. - Eileen Elias Freeman, "The Angel's Little Instruction Book"
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. - Charles Dickens
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Good dinner conversation can be lively, but steer clear of controversy and topics that upset you. Increased levels of stress hormone cortisol signal the body to store fat. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. - Glenn Clark
Angels see how people interrelate and how one event leads to another. You may only know about your family tree two or three generations back, but the angels can trace your lineage back to the beginning and see the rhythms, the ebbs, the flows, and the reasons you are together now. - Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, "The Angelspeake Storybook"
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. - Will Durant
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move. - Paulo Coelho
"A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune." - Lew Wallace
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. - Glenn Clark
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. - Morris West
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Nancy Reagan
"I'm single because I was born that way." - Mae West
When all is said and done, more is said than done. - Lou Holtz
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. - Chinese Proverb
Angels appear on the edge of death because death is the threshold between time and eternity. Death is a room with a view beyond the veil. - Gary Kinnaman, "Angels Dark and Light"
The best way to predict your future is to create it. - Unknown
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. - William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Ask humbly for God to guide you, and he will show you if one of his angels is blocking the path ahead. If he is, you dare not risk going forward. - Ann Spangler, "An Angel a Day"
You can address your angelic request directly to God or to your angels. Either way, heaven instantly responds to your message and sends angels to guide, love, and heal you. - Doreen Virtue, "Divine Guidance
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free." -Charles Evans Hughes
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Coco Chanel
"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there." - Belle Livingstone
The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. - Dag Hammarskjold
For fast acting relief, try slowing down. - Lily Tomlin
The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Confucius
"The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love." - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier. - Mother Teresa
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. - Norman Cousins
To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone. - David J. Schwartz
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin
When bored with your appearance, try a new cut or color. Ask someone whose hairdo you admire for a referral, and don't be afraid to spend a bit more money on yourself. You wear your hair every day. - Oprah.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
"You have to schedule more rest, and stop sprinting through your life as though it's some race you have to win." - Oprah Winfrey
The angels will guide and support you and show you where to go next. If you cannot see your next step, then do nothing. For that means the angels are still preparing the way. Do not ever doubt the angels’ guidance or presence. They are there and will never leave you. - Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, "The Angelspeake Storybook"
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. - Joseph Campbell
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. - Cynthia Ozick
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson
While you rest, angels will step in and restore serenity. - Kathryn Schein
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page. - Saint Augustine
Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn’t ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang
Angels can maintain anonymity as long as they need to, pretending to be mortal when the occasion calls for such a masquerade. - Emily Hahn, "Breath of God"
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Philo
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. - Thomas Carlyle
Angels are not only with you to save your life when you are in danger, they are in your life every single moment in every way imaginable. - Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, "The Angelspeake Storybook"
It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day. - Willie Mays
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. - William Feather
With an angel by your side, you'll never be afraid of your own shadow. - Suzanne Siegel Zenkel, "Your Secret Angel"
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. - Standing Bear
Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. - Charles Swindoll
An angel can illuminate the darkest path. - Kathryn Schein
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. - William Cobbett
Call a friend with whom you've been meaning to get back in touch. A rich, lifelong relationship could be waiting. - Oprah.
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there. - Robb Sagendorph
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. - Satchel Paige
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. - Horace
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. - William Rostler
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. - Sam Ewing
When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way. - Terry Lynn Taylor, "Angel Days"
It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting. - Todd Ruthman
Why is it that angels like disguise? It seems they take whatever form the visited person is willing to accept; and sometimes no form at all a dream, a thought, a surge of power, a sense of guidance. This explains why angels are easily explained away… - Sophy Burnham, "A Book of Angels"
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". - Anonymous
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong
He who is eternally without Perceives the spiritual side of it;He who is permanently with desire Perceives the limit of it. - Laozi.
Stress-proof your morning (or at least part of it). Get up 15 minutes earlier, and start your day with a short walk or series of yoga postures. - Oprah.
Working with your angel is easy. Just ask them for what you need help with. Believe they are going to do it. Allow them to do what angels do and then say thank you for the results. - Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, "The Angelspeake Storybook"
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. - Theodore Roethke
All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it. - Syrus
He who laughs, laughs lasts. - Mary Poole
An angel collects all the prayers offered in the synagogues, weaves them into garlands, and puts them on God’s head. - Zohar of the Cabala
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. - Sir John Templeton
You’re never alone, you’ve an angel, although it may seem far away: Somewhere up in the sky, above where the clouds fly, but that’s where they come from, not where they reside, you just have to call them to be by your side ‘cos you’re never alone, you’ve an angel. - Margaret Neylon
Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
Your Guardian Angels fuse their power with yours to facilitate the creation of just the miracle you need for the greatest good of all concerned. - Belinda Womack, "Angels Guide
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. - Charles Spurgeon
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. - Althea Gibson
"Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time." - Oprah Winfrey