Positive Quotes - Page 4

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.

Lucimar Santos de Lima

We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.

This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

Sarah Winnemucca

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Margery Allingham

What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?

The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.

John DePasquale

Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business education pro football anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't believe in pessimism.

If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

George Meredith

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Diana Schneider

Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

James W. Fulbright

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Your imagination has much to do with your life. ... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Nicholas Hilliard

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

Vincent van Gogh

Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

Mary McLeod Bethune

True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Catharine Marshall

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

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Franchise Sagan

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

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Tyne Daly

They never raised a statue to a critic.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

John DePasquale

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.

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

One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.

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

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

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