quotes about Positive
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
-- A. A. Milne -
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
-- A. A. Milne -
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
-- A. C. Benson -
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
-- Adam SmithSource : "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".
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I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.
-- Aerin Lauder -
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.
-- Akiane KramarikSource : FaceBook post by Akiane Kramarik from May 03, 2012
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In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
-- Al Capp -
All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.
-- Al Gore -
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
-- Alan Cumming -
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Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
-- Albert Camus -
When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.
-- Albert E Cliffe -
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
-- Albert Einstein -
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert EinsteinSource : "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein -
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
-- Albert Einstein -
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
-- Albert Einstein -
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
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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 -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-- Aldous HuxleySource : Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7
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Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
-- Alexander PopeSource : 'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
-- Alexandre DumasSource : "The Camelia-lady".
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
-- Alexis Carrel -
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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 -
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
-- Alice Morse Earle -
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-- Alice Walker -
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
-- Alistair CookeSource : Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
-- Alphonse Karr -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
-- Alton Brown -
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin TofflerSource : "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.
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The most important thing you wear is your personality.
-- America Ferrera -
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin -
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
-- Anatole France -
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-- Andre Gide -
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
-- Andy Grove -
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
-- Andy Warhol -
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
-- Ann LandersSource : Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud -
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
-- Anna Lee -
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
-- Anne FrankSource : Anne Frank (1959). “Works”
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
-- Anne Frank -
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
-- Anne Sweeney -
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
-- Annie Dillard -
The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
-- Anwar SadatSource : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
-- Aphra BehnSource : Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30
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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
-- Arianna Huffington -
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-- Aristotle -
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle -
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Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.
-- Art Linkletter -
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
-- Arthur L. Williams, Jr. -
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero -
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
-- Arundhati RoySource : Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press
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I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
-- Audrey HepburnSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- Augustus Hare -
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
-- Averroes -
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
-- B. C. Forbes -
The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
-- Baal Shem Tov -
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To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
-- Barbara FredricksonSource : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.23, Harmony
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Positivity transforms us for the better.
-- Barbara FredricksonSource : Barbara Fredrickson (2010). “Positivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release Your Inner Optimist and Thrive”, p.24, Oneworld Publications
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It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
-- Barbara FredricksonSource : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.50, Harmony
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When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
-- Barbara FredricksonSource : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.57, Harmony
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Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
-- Barbara FredricksonSource : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.21, Harmony
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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 -
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
-- Beck -
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
-- Ben JonsonSource : 'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -