positive

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘positive’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Don’t give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don’t stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don’t ever say it’ll never happen or it’ll never happen.” -Mary J. Blige

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  • “I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We’re doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.” -Jimmy Wales

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  • “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

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  • “The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.” -Dick Wolf

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  • “We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “I’m an un-healable positive optimist.” -Andre Rieu

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  • “You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.” -Fran Drescher

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  • “Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I’m in a space that is not positive.” -Janet Jackson

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  • “Each season I find myself constantly inspired by ‘The Biggest Loser’ contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.” -Curtis Stone

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  • “Sometimes you’re not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I’ve written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.” -Len Wein

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  • “We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.” -Jeff Bezos

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  • “I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.” -Cat Cora

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  • “I want to come across as a positive person.” -Greta Scacchi

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  • “Play like you’re positive on the victory, even though they’re leading big now.” -Knute Rockne

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  • “People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.” -Novak Djokovic

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  • “I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive – like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable – there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.” -Beth Ditto

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  • “African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.” -Mos Def

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  • “I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.” -Tim Allen

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  • “I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of ‘cultural lamination’ that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.” -Jose Saramago

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  • “I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.” -Mike Krzyzewski

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  • “I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.” -LL Cool J

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  • “I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I’m tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.” -Venus Williams

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  • “I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.” -Eddie Izzard

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  • “An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.” -Donald Cram

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  • “I had never had a positive leading character – somebody that wasn’t an antihero, or who wasn’t more of a guy that you’re supposed to be on the side of.” -Gus Van Sant

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  • “That’s what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It’s a positive feedback cycle.” -Linus Torvalds

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  • “I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.” -Robert Duvall

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  • “I’ve always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.” -Tracey Ullman

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  • “We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.” -Eric Liu

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  • “Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.” -Jose Mourinho

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  • “I don’t like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.” -Chloe Sevigny

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  • “I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I’ll appreciate my health if I get better.” -Daniel Johns

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  • “The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!” -Dante Hall

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  • “I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I’m in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life – or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very…

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  • “Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it’s all right. We’re scared that if the truth comes out that it’s not all right. It’s the other way around.” -Yoko Ono

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  • “Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.” -Marilu Henner

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  • “Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.” -T. D. Jakes

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  • “I love acting like I’m in love. It’s a very positive thing.” -Amanda Seyfried

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  • “This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It’s positively a dump.” -Charles Barkley

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  • “I’m getting positive feedback for my acting so we’ll see if any other interesting parts come up.” -Johnny Vegas

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  • “I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they’re prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate…

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  • “I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.” -Betty White

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  • “There’s a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater… Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.” -Kim Cattrall

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  • “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” -Tom Peters

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  • “Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.” -David Suzuki

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  • “Her beauty didn’t do her any good and she couldn’t use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.” -Diane Kruger

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  • “I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.” -Barry Williams

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  • “Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that’s very positive.”…

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  • “Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.” -Wendell Berry

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  • “The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it’s amazing how the light shines so much brighter.” -Reba McEntire

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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

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  • “My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.” -Tommy Chong

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  • “I don’t personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn’t having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.” -Lev Yilmaz

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  • “When you’re a houseguest and you leave, it’s nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it’s nice to have made a positive contribution.” -Alexander Payne

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  • “Accent your positive and delete your negative.” -Donna Karan

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  • “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

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  • “Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.” -Garrett Hardin

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  • “Good news doesn’t necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man.” -Patti Smith

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  • “Political folk talk a lot these days about ‘messaging’ – a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive – i.e., ‘Our messaging is designed to show we care.’” -John Podhoretz

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  • “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.” -Lenny Kravitz

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  • “You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.” -Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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  • “Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “People don’t really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there’s no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.” -Emma Watson

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  • “The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.” -Albert J. Nock

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  • “Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.” -Berenice Abbott

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  • “Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it’s surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “There’s a weird cloud around you when you’re recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.” -Diablo Cody

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  • “The job numbers are positive. We’ve had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We’re seeing that the creation, we’re seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we’re not…

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  • “You should tell yourself frequently ‘I will only react to constructive suggestions.’ This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.” -Jane Roberts

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  • “Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.” -Stephen Leacock

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  • “Nature isn’t positive in that way. It doesn’t aim itself at you. It’s not being unkind to you.” -David Attenborough

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  • “It’s a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.” -Louis C. K.

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  • “There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.” -John Clayton

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  • “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

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  • “We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.” -Marco Rubio

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  • “I’ve been singing for six years. I’ve been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn’t something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn’t ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out…

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  • “Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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  • “I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.” -Imelda Marcos

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  • “More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean ‘wrong’ in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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  • “Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties… I don’t know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they’re the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they’re scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they’re avoiding commitment altogether.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I don’t just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.” -David Cameron

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  • “I can’t let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.” -Ian Somerhalder

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  • “But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It’s had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white…

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  • “Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.” -Ron Jaworski

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  • “In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?” -Jamie Foxx

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  • “Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and – which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.” -Tiger…

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  • “Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn’t take any brains to complain.” -Robert A. Cook

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  • “Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.” -Natalie du Toit

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  • “The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.” -Lech Walesa

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  • “When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong – either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship – the impact on a child’s later life can be devastating.” -Iain Duncan Smith

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  • “Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don’t get through.” -Lesley Gore

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  • “Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.” -Franz Kafka

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  • “Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can’t do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that’s all a direct result of getting sober.” -Jamie Lee Curtis

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  • “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

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  • “The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.” -Noam Chomsky

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  • “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” -Matt Cameron

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  • “When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.” -Shia LaBeouf

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  • “Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.” -David Hockney

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  • “‘Do What You Gotta Do’ is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you’re up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.” -Angie Stone

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  • “I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you’re a lucky individual.” -Sam Elliott

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  • “You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.” -Nadia Comaneci

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  • “Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.” -Ambrose Bierce

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  • “When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.” -Stephen Covey

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  • “Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.” -Alfred A. Montapert

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  • “But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.” -Honore de Balzac

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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

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  • “Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero…

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  • “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

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  • “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” -David Bailey

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  • “And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It’s fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it’s not real. And it’s totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.” -Tom…

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  • “Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.” -Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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  • “I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.” -Michael J. Fox

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  • “For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.” -Thomas Mann

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  • “People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.” -Raoul Vaneigem

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  • “For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.” -John Sununu

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  • “I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.” -Huey Newton

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  • “To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.” -George Santayana

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  • “I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.” -Michael Jordan

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  • “A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.” -Joel Osteen

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  • “Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” -Bo Bennett

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  • “Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” -Henry David Thoreau

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  • “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

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  • “A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’” -Eminem

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  • “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” -Hans Selye

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  • “Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.” -Mitt Romney

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  • “Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.” -Pablo Picasso

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  • “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” -Patricia Neal

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  • “I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’” -Nicole Kidman

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  • “There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.” -Hillary Clinton

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  • “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.” -Sidney Poitier

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  • “Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” -John Ruskin

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  • “At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” -Jane D. Hull

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  • “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.” -Steven Biko

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  • “You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.” -Zig Ziglar

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.” -Jason Mraz

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  • “And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don’t, it’s just real hard to get through the day, and I’ll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.” -Delta Burke

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  • “If it’s great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It’s a positive force.” -Manuel Puig

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  • “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

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  • “Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.” -Yao Ming

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  • “There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.” -Brian Koslow

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  • “I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That’s why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.” -Daryl Hannah

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  • “First of all, I try to be a positive role model.” -Bruce Jenner

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  • “I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.” -Chelsea Clinton

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  • “Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.” -King Edward VIII

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  • “I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.” -Heidi Klum

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  • “Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” -William James

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  • “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.” -Wade Boggs

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  • “The most positive men are the most credulous.” -Alexander Pope

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  • “God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.” -Edwin Louis Cole

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  • “Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.” -Queen Latifah

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  • “You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.” -Carlos Ghosn

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  • “I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.” -Bryan Clay

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  • “Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.” -William Cowper

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  • “Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.” -Camryn Manheim

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  • “Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.” -Johnny Rotten

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  • “So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.” -John Newcombe

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  • “So long as you’ve got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don’t really have to care what everyone else thinks.” -Gail Porter

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  • “The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.” -B. F. Skinner

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  • “The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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  • “I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.” -Pitbull

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  • “A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.” -Mena Suvari

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  • “I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.” -Paula Deen

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  • “You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.” -Hans Bender

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  • “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

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  • “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -Robert Collier

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  • “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” -Brian Tracy

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  • “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” -Deepak Chopra

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  • “I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that’s all you’re going to get back.” -Kesha

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  • “You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.” -Emmet Fox

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  • “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” -Paulo Coelho

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  • “I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.” -Ted Nugent

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  • “Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.” -Les Brown

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  • “I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.” -James A. Baldwin

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  • “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” -Joyce Brothers

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  • “Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” -George Allen, Sr.

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  • “I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.” -Amy Adams

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