Daily Affirmations for a Positive Start

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston S. Churchill

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." - Henri Nouwen

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." - Corrie ten Boom

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." - Maya Angelou

"Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to." - Mandy Hale

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." - Robert Morley

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." - Jamie Paolinetti

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs