Quotes About Being Upbeat

#1. Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.

Kristan Higgins

#2. Justice' primes the human habitat for peaceful and friendly togetherness. It sets the table - the round table - for polylogue and negotiations guided by the will of agreement. Justice is the most 'socializing' of values.

Zygmunt Bauman

#3. When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

Desmond Tutu

#4. If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

John C. Maxwell

#5. I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.

Jon Weisman

#6. 'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.

Ben Lovett

#7. I wonder where it all comes from--this need to go to the place where the body has been laid to rest. It's the need to reconfirm how precious someone was and how irreplaceable, and the desire to reconnect with them on a different plane.

Takashi Hiraide

#8. Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Angus Wilson

#10. The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

Marketa Irglova

#11. What is a home without children? Quiet.

Henny Youngman

#12. You've got choices, like any other creature. You can stumble down that road, pretending you can't help it. You can curl up and die of regret and sorrow for what you've done. Or you can get up and fight, even though the battle might be lost.-Finn

Kersten Hamilton

#13. The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

Peter Drucker

#14. If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#15. Oh!' Said Sunny, and everyone knew what she meant. She meant, 'What a terrible place! I don't want to live there at all!

Lemony Snicket

#16. It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

Mallory Ortberg

#17. I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

Gangaji

#18. Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Jane McGonigal

#19. I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

Marco Rubio

#20. Being upbeat is the key to life.

David Frost

#21. I like being upbeat, positive, happy, enjoying family.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler