Top 100 Man Positive Quotes
#1. The fourth principal division of names, is into positive and negative. Positive, as man, tree, good; negative, as not-man, not-tree, not-good. To every positive concrete name, a corresponding negative one might be framed.
John Stuart Mill
#2. The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
Baal Shem Tov
#3. Look from the blind man's eye ... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?
Fawad Afzal Khan
#4. Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
Orison Swett Marden
#5. What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In a simple order," said the man. "With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude.
Margaret Atwood
#6. Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
Donald Miller
#7. Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
Zhuangzi
#8. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
Orison S. Marden
#10. The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
Confucius
#11. The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side ... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
Abraham Maslow
#12. The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.
Neil Gaiman
#13. One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.
Ufuoma Apoki
#14. Some people can act Hollywood and others don't. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It's easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn't be as good as it is.
Chumlee
#15. Desire seizes that man whose soul has been brushed by another man's kiss and, holding him by the collar says: This is your existence -- and it is natural, it is positive, it is good, and it is spinning a new way to be.
Douglas Sadownick
#16. Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness.
Parul Wadhwa
#17. Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.
Adri Sinclair
#18. A woman's love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#21. If evolution simply means that a positive thing called an ape turned very slowly into a positive thing called a man, then it is stingless for the most orthodox; for a personal God might just as well do things slowly as quickly, especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. What message may I take from you to the young people in Zion?" The answer was quick and positive. "Tell them," said the doomed man, "to keep their lives so full of good works that there will be no room for evil.
Spencer W. Kimball
#24. LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
Bow Wow
#25. Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
Ayn Rand
#26. Aunt Marcie and my dear cousin, Marki, man it's good to share blood with you fantastic ladies. We are related through and through. Whatever God was doing when he connected us, I'm positive that he did it for a reason.
Bandit Publishing
#27. My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!
Kalon Jackson
#28. It's rare for me to be asked out and for me to respond in a positive way is rarer still. I'm the worst - a man has to be just right for me.
Cheryl Cole
#30. Korsakov got himself shot again, eh? Not surprised. the man's hobby is getting shot. He has a positive talent for it.
James Kennedy
#31. When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
Muhammad Ali
#32. Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#33. With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.
Maddy Malhotra
#34. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man ... even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you ... God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection."
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#35. God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
Robert Burns
#36. Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
Napoleon Hill
#37. We laughed together. It's so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed ...
James Lusarde
#38. Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Ruth McKenney
#39. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
Tony Robbins
#40. How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
Patrick Swayze
#41. I disentangled myself and flopped backward on the bed. "You sure about this, man?"
"Positive." David climbed right on top, straddling me. He knew I'd never throw him off, even if I'd threatened to do so a hundred times in the past. Maybe he knew how much I liked it.
Santino Hassell
#42. A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.
Simon Cameron
#44. I know as surely as I live and breath the positive proof of what education can do for a man.
Jesse Stuart
#46. The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
Taye Diggs
#47. Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
Friedrich Schiller
#49. Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
John C. Maxwell
#50. The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius
#51. It's all positive energy from me, man.
Swizz Beatz
#53. What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.
David Robinson
#55. I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.
Margaret Walker
#56. The world of man in the world of nature, cannot be change without physical appearance leads to positive possess by the initial human nature and could be change by habits of man.
Syed Afroz Alam
#57. We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
Edward Dahlberg
#59. I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.
Nick Cannon
#60. It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.
George Crook
#61. Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
J.I. Packer
#62. The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything ...
Robert G. Ingersoll
#63. Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
Patti Smith
#64. I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in waking for another's dream; than my experience has taught me one thing, the magic of our world exists in those who create alchemy from the dirt they have been shoved upon.
Nikki Rowe
#65. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
#67. The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man's life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities, but the consciousness of what might be has increased even more.
Bertrand Russell
#68. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.
Indiana Lang
#69. Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. "It seems all the negativity in the world doesn't affect you," he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It's all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.
Jason Mraz
#70. An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Officials became suspicious when he kept stopping the match and saying, 'What are we fighting for, man?'
Conan O'Brien
#72. What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Louis Mann
#73. True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
#74. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward Burgess Butler
#75. Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.
Rollo May
#76. I'm sensin' we're comin' to a positive end to this discussion so I don't wanna piss you off, but I'm not your counselor. I'm your ex-wife's man. You need to process shit, do it with one of your boys. I got shit to do.
Kristen Ashley
#77. Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
John Clayton
#78. If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.
Mandy Hale
#80. Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#81. We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.
Maimonides
#82. I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.
Kevin James
#83. What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
Kate O'Mara
#85. There's a general assumption now that every man in a position of power is or will soon be corrupt and oppressive. Yet the Greeks understood and praised a positive male energy that has accepted authority.
Robert Bly
#86. The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.
William Walker Atkinson
#88. Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
Peter Mayle
#90. The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.
T. Greenwood
#91. It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.
Jocelyn Murray
#92. Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
Charles Baudelaire
#94. A man's final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way.
Angela Khristin Brown
#95. Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
Tom Landry
#97. The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.
Alan Watts
