Top 100 Quotes About Being Positive
#1. The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#2. Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
Quentin Blake
#3. There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.
Colleen Chen
#4. I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.
Cesar Millan
#5. Being positive at the worst time is the best time.
Raven Moore
#7. I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#8. Alls - how it's possible even the worst things that can happen to you can end up being positive factors in who you are.
David Foster Wallace
#9. There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
Karisma Kapoor
#10. Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.
Gwyneth Lewis
#11. I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.
Brendon Urie
#12. For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
Billy Porter
#13. When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#14. However you see the world, realize that you can be successful if you do the work. Being positive and doing nothing will generate nothing. Being negative and fighting everything that cross your path can still lead to success.
James Woosley
#15. I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.
Jimmy Fallon
#16. The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.
Lindsey Stirling
#17. Being positive won't guarantee you'll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won't.
Jon Gordon
#18. 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
#19. Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
Chuck D
#20. Being positive reckons the unexpected.
Toba Beta
#21. Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.
Ralph Marston
#22. My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.
Joe Torre
#23. Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.
Ralph Marston
#24. I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.
Srikumar Rao
#25. Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.
Eric Weiner
#26. People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
Jack White
#27. If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too
Dave Hampton
#28. We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.
Joshua Radin
#29. While I'm all for positivity, I'm not for forced positivity. "Being positive" doesn't respect our pain, struggles, or challenges. You have to feel the positivity coming from the inside; you can't smash it into yourself from the outside.
Kira Lynne
#30. Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it's easy to preach. I guess that's why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up's and down's and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail.
Gudjon Bergmann
#31. I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
Andy Cohen
#32. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.
Mark Parker
#33. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.
Uzoma Nnadi
#34. Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#35. It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.
Courtney Barnett
#36. I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives me limitless opportunity to study the human condition, and a love story with a positive ending always lifts my spirits and warms my heart.
Jennie Adams
#37. The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..
Adyashanti
#38. The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
Sallust
#39. There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.
Jordyn Wieber
#40. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Nathaniel Branden
#41. Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.
Kevin Cramer
#42. I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.
Raven-Symone
#43. Attitude is everything, they say . . . and I believe this to be true. If we learn to see the positive side of things, then we'll live longer, healthier, happier lives. A good way to do so is to stop complaining and start being grateful.
David Hamilton
#44. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?
Melina Marchetta
#47. Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.
Alex Gonzaga
#49. The secret to happiness is complaining very little.
Nikki Rowe
#50. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.
Martin Seligman
#51. That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.
Joey Harrington
#52. My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
Indra Nooyi
#53. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro
#54. Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
Daniel Goleman
#55. Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.
Beverly Engel
#56. Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful.
Lauren Dane
#57. If others benefit through you getting what you desire most,
it will have a positive impact on the world and only then will every atom of your being work with the universe to help it come into fruition.
Malti Bhojwani
#58. I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.
Michelle Mone
#59. There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#60. (My husband's tongue-in-cheek definition of positive is "being wrong at the top of your voice.") If
Kathy Ide
#61. One positive person affects the whole universe. If you improve yourself as a human being then you will contribute for the betterment of the whole planet.
Hina Hashmi
#62. Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop - to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.
Nhat Hanh
#63. Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
Judith Orloff
#64. I am Happy. I love colorful and cute stuffs. Whole my life is all about being happy and to stay positive in my beliefs. I love to inspire people and let them know more about themselves.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#65. All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.
Deepak Chopra
#66. Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
Sean Lennon
#67. If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.
John C. Maxwell
#68. Don't complain but compliment.
Don't compete but empower.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.
Sabrina Bryan
#70. Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.
Mandy Hale
#71. Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one's demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.
Kevin Dutton
#72. What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?
Maddy Malhotra
#73. Failure is just another opportunity to start over.
Yogi Berra
#74. As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
John Hall
#75. What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.
David Gregory
#76. When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
Martin Seligman
#78. America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.
Adora Svitak
#79. There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.
Lindsey Stirling
#80. I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.
Angela Merkel
#81. Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.
Ibn Warraq
#82. I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.
Gloria Estefan
#83. All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
Sam Walton
#84. God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.
Dana Arcuri
#85. But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.
Anne Hathaway
#87. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.
T.K. Coleman
#88. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
#89. Having a positive outlook means being optimistic even when you have continuous failures, and keep re-working on your plans.
Kandathil Sebastian
#90. The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
Emily Dickinson
#91. Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.
Diana Lopez
#92. Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.
Octavia E. Butler
#93. Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
Roy Bennett
#94. I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.
Stephen Fry
#95. If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.
Gelett Burgess
#96. Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#97. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.
Oliver Burkeman
#98. True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Shannon L. Alder
#99. Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#100. Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.
April Mae Monterrosa
