Positive Quotes

"A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced."

"All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way."

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

"And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans."

"As a driver, you've always got to believe in your heart that you've got what it takes to win it. You've always got to believe in yourself. You've always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You've always got to believe in the positives."

"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

"Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation."

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

"Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options."

"Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive."

"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."

"Every day brings new choices."

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important."

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

"For people of the younger generation, the 21st century has started for them with a positive sign that Valencia is and will continue to be a very modern city."

"Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success."

"Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations."

"I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world."

"I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles."

"I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person."

"I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways."

"I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do."

"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

"I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place."

"I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms."

"I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive."

"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well."

"I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and at the end of the day, that shouldn't affect you, but it is much more important not to read it so you just don't know."

"I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has."

"I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative."

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

"I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand."

"I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one."

"I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it."

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."

"If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what."

"If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago."

"If you are a positive person, you can do so much more."

"If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive."

"If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance."

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

"Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better."