Positive Quotations | Page 5

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I've been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything from my weight to my fertility was held up for discussion. And then I was the person that could garner some kind of positive outcome, by taking on the role of vice chairman of the British Fashion Council and becoming an activist of body image.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

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

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

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.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

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.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

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.

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

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.

As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.

I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.

One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.