Positive Quotes

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if t...

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pul...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear ...

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has al...

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily be...

Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the...

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of pray...

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

I make positive choices so I can be happy.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a n...

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that ...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength u...

Think like a man of action act like a man of thought.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I le...

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have so...

Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a posit...

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

To make the world a friendly place one must show it a friendly face.

A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to ...

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section t...

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one...

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing ...

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is...

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect sp...

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and ...

Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be ...

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they ar...

I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers....

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you sh...

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to asse...

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he ...

And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At som...

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...

The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Li...

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.

Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're i...

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honest...

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be...

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it...

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got...

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect ...

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I...

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they wan...

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every d...

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American hist...

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your en...

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positiv...

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by be...

She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and ...

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...