Focusing on the Good Quotes

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love - and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others-but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

If you start praising your wife, if you start telling her how beautiful she is, and how glad you are to have her in your life, when you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you'll draw out the negative. It's up to you.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

From 'America's Got Talent' I've learned to not look at all the bad comments and just concentrate on the positive.

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.

When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.