Positive Quotes

"You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song."

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

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

"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity."

"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."

"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."

"P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard."

"No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans."

"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."

"Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do."

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

"Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring."

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman."

"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."

"Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way."

"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."

"You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off."

"Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero."

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

"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."

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

"Wealth can be used to make a huge difference in the world; social media can be used to have a positive impact on people, or it can be used for exactly the opposite."

"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."

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

"Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do."

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

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

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

"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."

"Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful."

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

"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."

"The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars."

"To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past."

"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."

"Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting."

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

"Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct."

"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

"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."

"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."

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

"Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important."

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

"Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well."

"When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive."

"No matter what nationalities became a part of our country in the future, they would have to assimilate into the Han nationality. The nationalism our party supports is a positive nationalism. Do not forget that."

"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."

"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."