Positive Quotes

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

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.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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.

Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

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.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.

The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.