Positive Quotes

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
– Imre Lakatos
President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.
– Glenn Hubbard
Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
– Jose Garces
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
– Lena Dunham
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
– John Podhoretz
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.
– Ron Fournier
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
– Knute Rockne
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
– Terence Stamp
Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.
– Jenni Rivera
People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.
– Novak Djokovic
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
– Emma Watson
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
– Alexei Navalny
Only fools are positive.
– Moe Howard
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.
– Roy H. Williams
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
– Philip Emeagwali
One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.
– Kathleen Wynne
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
– Garrett Hardin
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
– Charles Rangel
Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
– Nile Rodgers
Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.
– Marc Wallice
No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.
– George Miller
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
– Gary Allan
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
– Demi Lovato
No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.
– Reeve Carney
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
– Sherman Alexie
My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.
– Kid Cudi
My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.
– Maurice Greene
My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.
– Melanie Fiona
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
– Tommy Chong
My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
– Wayne Wonder
My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
– Vince Flynn
My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.
– Alexander McCall Smith
My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.
– Greg Rusedski
Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
– Brandon Thomas
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
– Scott Ian
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
– Christopher Dawson
More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.
– Simon Mainwaring
More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.
– Kiana Tom
More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.
– Randy Neugebauer
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
– Queen Latifah
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
– Matt Cameron
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
– David Hockney
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
– Howard Gardner
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
– David Zucker
It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.
– Lee Pace
It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.
– Mary Hart
It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
– Trevor Rabin
It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
– Flo Rida
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
– Winona Ryder
It's all positive energy from me, man.
– Swizz Beatz
It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
– Anthony Holden
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
– Louis C. K.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
– Wangari Maathai
It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
– Erskine Bowles
It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.
– Roger Andrew Taylor
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
– Lil' Kim
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
– Robert H. Schuller
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
– Scott McCallum
It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.
– Ray Comfort
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
– Ivor Novello
It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
– Alexis Bledel
It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.
– George Crook
It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
– Brad Paisley
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
– Yoko Ono
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
– Patricia Richardson
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
– Camryn Manheim
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
– Garrett Hardin
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.
– Daniel Pipes
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.
– Jose Ramos-Horta
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
– Vito Fossella
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
– The Dalai Lama
In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.
– Debbie Macomber
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
– John Wooden
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
– George Saunders
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
– Paul Farmer
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
– Tiger Woods
If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.
– Rick Renzi
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.
– Kim Stanley Robinson
If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.
– Dorothy Stratten
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
– Manuel Puig
If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
– Marc Wallice
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
– Bill Parcells
If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
– Parminder Nagra
I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.
– Kyan Douglas
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
– Brian Littrell
I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.
– Kohei Uchimura
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
– Arthur Smith
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
– Shia LaBeouf
I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.
– Paul Kane
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
– Hale Irwin
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
– Leif Garrett
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.
– Tyra Banks
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.
– Eric Davis
I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.
– Corey Feldman
I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.
– Julianne Hough
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
– Tracey Ullman
I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
– Pitbull
I'm so positive.
– Rickie Lee Jones