Positive Solutions Quotes

#1. Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

Nancy Pearcey

#2. Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

Barbara Fredrickson

#3. Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Lydia M. Child

#4. We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions.

Bryant McGill

#5. echoing gabble and nonsense, and then something bee-stung the inside of my right elbow and everything mellowed and faded out again. The next things I registered were the sounds and the smells of a hospital room.

Ken McKea

#6. I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

Bonnie Raitt

#7. Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

Bryant McGill

#8. Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Paula Abdul

#9. The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Antonia Fraser

#10. They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

#11. The best way to solve a problem is not to think of it as a problem but just as a difficulty or a challenge. Technically, the obstacle is the same, but you'll be able to approach it with a positive attitude that sharpens the mind and beats a path towards more solutions in the future.

A.G. Roemmers

#12. When God was creating heaven and earth, and there came what seemed like a problem: darkness and formlessness, He did not talk problem, instead, He spoke solution: 'And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light'. May we instead of making problems our speech, think and speak solutions!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. 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

#14. How different our life could have been and how different we could have been as a person if one little decision was altered.

M.B. Julien

#15. Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

A. N. Wilson

#16. The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Nick Flynn

#17. Far from being a paradox, this invitation is more reasonable than that of our modern gurus, who ask their disciples to imitate them as the great man or woman who imitates no one. Jesus, by contrast, invites us to do what he himself does, to become like him a perfect imitator of God the Father.

Rene Girard

#18. Gone were the days when Zuckerman had only to worry about Zuckerman making money: henceforth he would have to worry about his money making money.

Philip Roth

#19. Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Zig Ziglar

#21. The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly ... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

#22. I've never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that's what I love to do, so I'm going to bring it.

Reggie Lewis

#23. Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay.

Terry Pratchett

#24. I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.

Ross Kemp

#25. I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

Gretchen Rubin

#26. If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Emma McLaughlin

#28. Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

Genevieve Gerard

#29. When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses.

Caroline A. Shearer