Positive Quotes

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"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"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble"

Earl Warren, Judge

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

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"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, Entertainer

"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"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, Businessman

"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"

Barack Obama, President

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

John Wooden, Coach

"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Success is not just about money, it's about a way of life. It's about having a positive impact on the people around you"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I want my music to have a positive impact on people's lives, and I hope that it can help them overcome their challenges and feel better about themselves"

Alan Walker, Musician

"When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive"

Barry Mann, Musician

"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"

William Scott

"I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"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, Director

"One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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