Charles Stanley Quotes

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

As far as the regrets go, that's just not part of my makeup.

Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it