Overly Positive Quotes

#1. Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

Harold H. Bloomfield

#2. The sale begins when the customer says yes.

Harvey MacKay

#3. While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected ... to opt out when you need to.

Padmasree Warrior

#4. Fingerbone was never an impressive town. It was chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

Tae Yun Kim

#6. Ah. That sounds like dead, if you want my medical opinion. Did you do it?" "No!" "Well, you're a busy man, Sergeant. You can't be everywhere.

Terry Pratchett

#7. You are not responsible for the outcome, but for the effort itself.

Robert Underwood Johnson

#8. I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

James Lasdun

#9. Trying is something we do when we think we can't do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will.
Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City

Jemima Pett