Byrne Rhonda - Hero (The Secret)

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

I am very lucky to naturally be an optimistic person, and I think that helped enormously.

One of the most difficult things every human being wrestles with is their attitude. When you really get it that you’ll thwart your own success, be miserable, and potentially make yourself sick unless you adopt a positive attitude, you will choose to start looking at life through optimistic eyes. Your attitude is of your own creation. And it can be your biggest undoing or your most powerful tool.

LAYNE BEACHLEY

If you want things to improve in your life, if you want a change from the patterns that you’re currently experiencing, then learn to take responsibility for your thoughts.

Your thoughts form your attitude, and so the first step in changing your attitude is to take responsibility for your own thoughts. When you can recognize and accept that it’s the thoughts you are thinking that are making you feel miserable, then you will begin to change the kinds of thoughts you think.

If someone offered you the life of your dreams in exchange for you finding as many good things every day as you could, you would do it in a flash. Well, that is the way you receive the life of your dreams!

PETE CARROLL

In my life I have found that thinking positively and living in optimism is the best way to be successful and create the things you want.

If you look to outside circumstances in the world to form your attitude, you’ll be in trouble. That would require every circumstance around you to be perfect all the time so you could have a positive attitude, and you cannot control every circumstance. It would also require a lot of people to behave perfectly all the time, and you cannot control anyone but yourself. If you think about it, you would actually need all 7 billion of us to shape up into what you want so you can have an optimistic and positive attitude. You simply can’t look to outside circumstances to dictate what kind of attitude you will have. If you do, you will always find a circumstance or a person that will give you a reason to have a negative attitude. In order to become your most powerful tool, your attitude must be dictated from within.

MASTIN KIPP

I’ve been optimistic in the worst of circumstances.

PETER BURWASH

Everything has a positive or a negative to it. You can find both in every single situation in the world. The person who’s going to succeed is the person who’s going to be able to look at things in a positive manner first.

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It’s as simple as that. Something Good is Just About To Happen

PETE CARROLL

My mom always said that something good is just about to happen. I didn’t realize this early on, but I’ve lived my life with the thought that no matter how dark or how difficult things become, there’s this consistent hope that it’s just about to turn. My mom gave me the gift of that. It keeps me positive and keeps me always looking toward things in an optimistic manner. I’ve been very fortunate to live my life with that thought.

Because of the duality on earth, there are always going to be both positive and negative experiences. But if you consistently look for the good and maintain a positive attitude despite outside circumstances, you will triumph. And there are no better words to remember to help you maintain a positive attitude than Pete Carroll’s mom’s words: “Something good is just about to happen!” If you always know that something good is just about to happen, your optimism will never waiver for long.

G. M. RAO

My spirituality helped me think positively even when things looked bleak.

People who are happy and successful think more about the good things that can happen, think more about having happiness, having money, and creating a rich and meaningful life, than they do the opposite of those things.

G. M. RAO

I have encountered so many well-educated people from wealthy backgrounds and of a high social standing who are not able to succeed because of their negative attitudes. Negativity pulls one down.

A pessimistic attitude toward life means a miserable life. At some point in your life you’ve no doubt encountered someone who is pessimistic about everything, and when you are with him or her it sucks the energy and the joy out of you. Well, that’s precisely what a pessimistic attitude does to you.

ANASTASIA SOARE

If you are a pessimist and you are depressed all the time that is going to kill any dream.

On the other hand, I’m sure you’ve known someone who is always up and has a cheerful and bright attitude toward life, and when you are with him or her you also feel fantastic and full of life. And that’s what an optimistic attitude does to you.

Show me one pessimistic person who is deliriously happy in every part of their life. It’s not possible, because even if they had everything they wanted, the glass would still look half empty to them!

PETER BURWASH

Two people are living side by side and one person wakes up in the morning and throws open the window and says; "Good morning, God!" And then the person next door, the pessimist, says; "Good God. It’s morning."

Just ask yourself whether you think blaming and complaining can transform a person’s life into success and happiness. Do you think whining and criticizing can fulfill a person’s dreams and give them everlasting happiness?

PETE CARROLL

One of the rules that always applies in our program is no whining, no complaining, and no excuses. They’re not the kind of thought patterns that support. That’s not going to take us at all where we want to go.

Do you ever see Superman whining? Do you ever see Indiana Jones complaining? Do you see James Bond blaming others for his lot in life? You’ll never see movie superheroes display any of these traits, because the moviemakers know that the superhero would immediately be diminished in your eyes and would no longer be a hero. And the audience would instinctively feel something was wrong; how can such a negative person become a hero? And the answer is, they can’t.

Blame, resentment, whining, and complaining are excuses we make when we’re not living the life we came here to live.

LIZ MURRAY

In our darker moments as human beings we start getting angry and entitled and blaming. I think anger, entitlement, and blame are all cousins of each other; they’re about what you should have had and what you’re lacking and who should have given it to you. I grew up thinking nobody owed me anything. Realize that anything you have you’re blessed to have, because it could just as easily disappear. That’s a much better attitude to have.

Because we see people around us who blame and resent and whine and complain, we can get the mistaken impression that it’s okay and won’t harm us. But all of those negative emotions will pull you down and down and disempower you until you feel hopeless. None of those emotions can ever fill you with the happiness you want and deserve. None of those emotions will lead you to your dream. None of them are befitting of the hero that you are.

LAIRD HAMILTON

It’s impossible that you’re going to be all cheery, happy, smiley, everything’s perfect all the time. There’s going to be jealousy, there’s going to be envy; all those negative things are going to occur at times. That’s just part of being a human. But do you give them ground to grow, or do you push them out and fill them with the positive things? What do you spend the majority of your time doing and thinking and saying? That’s what’s going to bear the fruit for you.