Positive Quotes

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
– Herm Albright
In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.
– Evan Bayh
Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.
– Joel Barker
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
– Tucker Carlson
But the good news is in today's world of so many options in entertainment, if you're getting some attention, that's a positive thing.
– David Caruso
When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
– Neve Campbell
Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
– Joan Chittister
A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks.
– Lew Col
Democrats need to be not only gracious in defeat, but positive about the future.
– Alan Colmes
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
– Donald Cram
Advertising is an instrument in the hands of the people who use it. If evil men use advertising for base purposes, then evil can result. If honest men use advertising to sell an honest product with honest enthusiasm, then positive good for our kind of capitalistic society can result.
– John W. Crawford
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
– Richard M. DeVos
It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.
– Mike DeWine
I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.
– Doug Davidson
If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.
– Nick Dipaolo
I believe that when someone crosses over, regardless how we choose to define them (negative, positive) they are met by other friends, relatives, energies, help them understand the life and lessons they learned, the experiences they have shared with others and the feelings they've shared with others.
– John Edward
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
– Albert Einstein
You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
– Carmen Electra
There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.
– John M. Eades
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
– Edward Gibbon
Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.
– Herbie Hancock
How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
– Franco Harris
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
– Ernest Hemingway
I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.
– M. C. Hammer
One of the few positive results of the Vietnam War is the irresistible momentum it gave Congress thirty-four years ago to pass legislation lowering the voting age to 18.
– Edward Kennedy
I think a good horror film can also include sexuality and passion and tensions and sensitivity, and I think if a horror film embraces all this mediums, then it can be a very sensually exciting event for the audience so that they are attracted and horrified at the same time. They're compelled towards this very positive force and at the same time they are frightened of it.
– Ben Kingsley
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
– Stanley Kubrick
It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.
– Mathieu Kerekou
I know you think I'm crazy. I go into a different room and I actually felt like it takes me to a better place, positive instead of negative.
– Martin Lawrence
American credibility in the world, progress in the war on terrorism, our relationships with our allies, the future of the Middle East, and the fate of Iraqis themselves depend on the resolve of the U.S. government and the American people in achieving a positive outcome in Iraq.
– Richard Lugar
I loved all the camp comics of my childhood, Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd and John Inman, but school gave me a very bad feeling about being gay and then, when I was about 12 - bang, along came AIDS. I can't think of a single positive thing about being gay at that time.
– Matt Lucas
My busy college schedule didn't allow much time to talk with Dad one-on-one. So Dad wrote me letters. The letters were always positive and filled with advice and sayings I could carry with me. . . Those letters meant the world to me, knowing Dad always believed in me. I saved all those letters and have them. . . in my home today.
– Dan Marino
Just can't live that negative way... make way for the positive day!
– Bob Marley
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
– Alfred A. Montapert
No, our principle hasn't changed. But the fact that they're moving forward on these nominees who have waited for years is positive.
– Scott McClellan
Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.
– Larisa Oleynik
I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.
– Larisa Oleynik
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Actually neither extreme of weather is a positive for the easiest most beneficial training.
– Bill Rodgers
How a community supports the arts provides insight into how the community views itself. By promoting vibrancy in the arts, we encourage a positive self-image for our community, our company and our employees. We make everyone's life better by bringing the arts closer to them.
– James E. Rogers
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
– John Ruskin
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.
– George Reisman
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
– Johnny Rotten
Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world.
– Richard Thompson
The church's family program, in the final analysis, is God's program. In this sense, the church's proposal, while assuming the positive aspects of the United Nations' proposal, goes further, not in the sense that it sacrifices determined values and needs of so-called modernity, but in the sense that it offers a broader and richer vision.
– Dionigi Tettamanzi
I got a sweet little telephone call from my director to the general effect that we can't fall behind in our schedule... I had to go-and leave behind me all the pleasures of a snow-white bed, and candy and flowers, and the other lovely things that make illness a positive privilege.
– Pearl White
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
– Bern Williams
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.
– Anonymous
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
– Robert Bringle
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.
– Shakti Gawain
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
– Barbara Hall
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
– Susan Jeffers
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
– John Keats
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
– Ronnie Shakes
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.
– Melissa Rosenberg
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
– Deepak Chopra
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
– George Allen, Sr.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
– Stephen Covey
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
– Iain Duncan Smith
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
– Jay Alan Sekulow
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
– Eric Liu
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.
– Marco Rubio
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
– Ibrahim Rugova
We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
– Martin O'Malley
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
– Barbara Jordan
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
– Jeff Bezos
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
– Hillary Clinton
There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.
– Kim Cattrall
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
– John Clayton
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
– W. Clement Stone
The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
– Reba McEntire
The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
– Saskia de Brauw
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
– Lech Walesa
The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
– Deryck Whibley
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
– Ho Chi Minh
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
– Noam Chomsky
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
– Herbert Read
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
– Sean William Scott
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
– William James
So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
– Gail Porter
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
– T. D. Jakes
Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.
– Lesley Gore
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
– Ron Jaworski
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
– Willard Scott
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.
– Sue Wicks
People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.
– Kirsty Coventry
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
– Lenny Kravitz
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
– Thomas Friedman
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
– Mary Antin
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
– David Attenborough
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
– Jack Kevorkian
My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.
– Caroline Wozniacki
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
– Mike Mills
Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
– Marilu Henner
Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
– John Krasinski