Top 100 Positively Quotes
#1. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne Porter
#2. The electromagnetic attraction between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the nucleus causes the electrons to orbit the nucleus of the atom, just as gravitational attraction causes the earth to orbit the sun.
Stephen Hawking
#3. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.
Watchman Nee
#4. The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts' bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days.
Scott Kelly
#5. When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
Bill Crawford
#6. Between dainty bites, she told Amie, 'Oh, you simply are as darling a creature as Henry described! I had no idea of your being so grown up! Henry, she is positively frazzleging!'
Amie deepened her smile, saying, 'And I had no idea you would be so pretty either, madam.
Jennifer Silverwood
#7. Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.
Tom Cunningham
#8. The assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.
John Scalzi
#9. When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. There are three types of people out there; those who lean, those who lift, and those who lead. People who lean immobilize you; stay away from them. People who lift inspire you; keep them near. People who lead positively influence you; seek them out.
Farshad Asl
#11. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#12. At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
Bill Goldberg
#13. But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires.
Bram Stoker
#14. No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.
Steven Redhead
#15. Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
Katharine Hepburn
#16. Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.
Tom Flynn
#17. I want to say that of course I want my writing to be read and discussed by as many people as possible, but this is different than wanting personal, "celebrity"-like attention. I'm very introverted and sensitive and dislike being talked about, positively or negatively.
Marie Calloway
#18. But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
Faraaz Kazi
#19. Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
Edmund Morris
#20. Then he does the absolutely, positively unthinkable.
He winks at me.
Lauren Oliver
#21. Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.
Bryant McGill
#22. New science reveals that exercise positively influences the gut's balance of bacteria to favor colonies that prevent weight gain.
David Perlmutter
#23. She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt ...
Robyn Carr
#24. While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.
Geneva Gay
#25. Think positively.
Always focus on the positive side of any situation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.
Tony La Russa
#27. But as long as we think positively, I'm sure a solution will appear.
Jonas Jonasson
#28. Later, you can shoot your boss an e-mail and comment positively on the new strategy or ideas she suggested and say you are eager to implement them. She'll appreciate
Kate White
#29. I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
David Guetta
#30. To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.
Ben Elton
#31. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
#32. Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).
Jack Kornfield
#33. O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord's lovingkindness, and when you have it, speak positively of it; sing gratefully; shout triumphantly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#35. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.
John Quincy Adams
#36. I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book ... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.
Nora Ephron
#37. PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.
Dash Mihok
#39. If you want to test how powerful your mind is, simply start thinking positively and see the results for yourself.
Maddy Malhotra
#40. When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be ...
Bobby Hull
#41. These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
Rush Limbaugh
#42. In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
#43. I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
R.A. Salvatore
#44. If you wish to succeed, you must believe in yourself and look at everything positively
Sid Mittra
#45. Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others ... The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#46. I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed was that hadn't trained my mind to believe, to think positively, to have faith in either God or myself.
Norman Vincent Peale
#47. Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.
Ellen Miller
#48. Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.
Mark Durie
#49. If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.
Laura Schlessinger
#50. When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.
Nina Arianda
#51. Babies welcomed at conception, prepared for during pregnancy, and gently birthed into loving hands begin life positively. They look out at the world with immense interest and curiosity, act as if they feel safe, and make a solid connection with their parents
David Chamberlain
#52. When he looked at me, his eyes positively twinkled. Christ. I was screwed. Eyes were twinkling at me.
J. Lynn
#53. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. One theory is that those who think positively are less affected by stress, but another possibility is that those who think positively tend to live a healthier, longer life in general because they exercise more, follow a better diet, and avoid unhealthy addictions like alcohol and drugs.
Katelyn Williams
#55. You are a soul. You are a creator. You are an individual, absolutely and positively one of a kind. You are an energetic being of love with enough power inside of you to change this entire world forever.
Stephen Lovegrove
#56. There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.
Alice Munro
#57. It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.
Earl Nightingale
#58. Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#59. When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.
("Out Of The Deep")
Walter De La Mare
#60. Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard" - why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#61. We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
William McDonough
#62. There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.
Douglas Fairbanks
#63. Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.
Evan Thompson
#64. Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book.
Russell Delman
#65. It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.
Lauren Willig
#66. It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
Adolf Hitler
#68. Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.
Kim Hyun-joong
#69. There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.
Colleen Chen
#70. For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.
Robert Kurson
#71. Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.
Melanne Verveer
#72. I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me.
Danny Bonaduce
#73. Keeping your face to the sunshine and your vibes positively high,
Helps one in hard times use a smile to replace their sigh
Timothy Pina
#74. The first step in turning around your organization's performance? Think positively about the people you lead.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#75. What did we ever do before text messaging?' Vi asked...
Write notes to each other. On paper'
Seems positively archaic now.'
Pretty soon we'll just be wired into each other and orject our thoughts back and forth,' Skye said...
Paul Ruditis
#76. Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
R.A. Salvatore
#77. Charging [creation of new karma] is under 'your' control and discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature's control. Therefore, if you want to charge, charge positively. Whatever you have charged, nature will not refrain from discharging.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. 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
#79. The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#80. We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
Shigeru Yoshida
#81. Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. All I tried to do was to give the little brute a cheerful expression. But, as it worked out, he looks positively dissipated.
P.G. Wodehouse
#83. Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.
Holly Madison
#84. And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic,
Sophia Loren
#85. At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule
Harun Yahya
#86. Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#87. Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides ... , " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.
Gail Carriger
#88. Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively.
Debasish Mridha
#89. My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
Gustavo Dudamel
#90. I've liked you better when Katsa's around,' Giddon said. 'She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
Kristin Cashore
#91. Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
#92. I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.
Michael Josephson
#93. Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.
Gordie Gillespie
#94. I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Augustine Of Hippo
#95. When you think positively, you attract divine forces for a positive lifestyle.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. Keep the body's energy frequencies high by always thinking positively.
Steven Redhead
#97. Honoria Smythe-Smith," Sarah said, positively grinning, "I am
so proud of you."
"I would ask why," Honoria replied warily, "but I'm not sure I
want to know the answer
Julia Quinn
#99. The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. - WILLIAM JAMES1
Niall Ferguson
#100. I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.
Patricia McConnell