Seligman Positive Quotes

#1. The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

Martin Seligman

#2. Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

Martin Seligman

#3. If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Martin Seligman

#4. Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

Martin Seligman

#5. I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Martin Seligman

#6. Better feed him more beans or you're going to have a midget on your hands, Wiley," he said. "It's bad enough to be deaf, but to be a deaf midget ... oh God, help us. I had a dog like that once.

Nick Wilgus

#7. [R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#8. By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

Martin Seligman

#9. Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."
I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!

Lewis Carroll

#10. As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. sometimes you have to dismantle
your life to find your passion.

Jennifer Pierre

#12. I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Martin Seligman

#13. The dreaded cry of "reboot," which is to say we have no clue and hopefully the issue will sort itself if we start over, if we clear the cache.

Hugh Howey

#14. I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

Martin Seligman

#15. There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Anthony Hopkins

#16. If I happen to come across a garden these days, I burst into bloom.

Rabih Alameddine

#17. South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Tom Peters

#18. Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Barnett Newman

#19. I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

Christopher Rice

#20. Even those who never frown eventually break down.

Linkin Park

#21. The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

Martin Seligman

#22. All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Henry Ward Beecher

#23. Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

Martin Seligman

#24. You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Martin Seligman

#25. When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

Martin Seligman

#26. Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

Martin Seligman

#27. I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.

Dylan Thomas

#28. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Martin Seligman

#29. P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Martin Seligman