think positive

Idioms  

1. Be optimistic, concentrate on the good rather than the bad, as in It's true you were fired but think positive—now you can look for a job you really like. This expression comes from the psychological doctrine of positive thinking, which gained currency with Norman Vincent Peale's popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking (1953). [Second half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

"We lost the game and played badly, but we have the second leg tomorrow. Calm down. Think positive and think that things will go well."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

Think positive about the negotiation and give others a reason to do so as well.

From Time • Dec. 9, 2014

As she told widows and other sorrowing women at a lecture billed as a “grief seminar” some years later: Think positive.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2014

“Well, actually there may be an option ... perhaps we could work something out. Think positive, is what I always say. Count your blessings.”

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Think positive: maybe I'll end up wherever those romance novels take place.

From Any Coincidence Is by Callahan, Daniel