Something Positive Quotes

#1. Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?

Melina Marchetta

#2. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Rick Danko

#3. It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#4. I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Rebecca Lobo

#5. My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive ... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Noel Gallagher

#6. I think people need to laugh everyday. Whether the economy is good or bad, I think the most important thing is to laugh and to feel positive, if you are laughing at something positive. But if you are laughing at mean jokes then it's a wash.

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

Paul Feig

#8. life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

Jane Marks

#9. With all the negativity in the world, I want to do something positive.

Fergie

#10. I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a group that's working together towards something positive.

Kyle MacLachlan

#11. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

Victoria Moran

#12. I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Eric Burdon

#13. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Rafael Nadal

#14. Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Al Neuharth

#15. Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Robert A. Cook

#16. I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Lisa Marie Presley

#17. The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

Ozzy Osbourne

#18. Appreciate all people for their talents. Everyone has something positive to contribute. If a rainbow only had one color, it wouldn't be as beautiful or spectacular to see.

Susan Reid

#19. I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Katie Ledecky

#20. I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

Mike Tyson

#21. I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else ... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

Lea Thompson

#22. I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Eddie Izzard

#23. It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Anthony Holden

#24. I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.

Vince Vaughn

#25. In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

Diahann Carroll

#26. Whatever you do, do something positive.

Dave Pelzer

#27. I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to ... I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains.

Lynsey Dyer

#28. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca

#29. In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

Richard Branson

#30. It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.

Jenny Han

#31. You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

Stephen Richards

#32. Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#33. If all of us carried a positive attitude, and we focused our efforts on striving for something positive in our own lives and in life all around us, everything would take a turn for the better. Yes, I really do believe that a positive mindset can change the world. Don't you?

Logan Seelye

#34. Sow something positive to somebody's life and you'll get that positivity back to your life because you reap what you sow.

Euginia Herlihy

#35. Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Donnie Yen

#36. Once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye ... combat some the ugliness in the world.

Goldie Hawn

#37. I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive.

Gucci Mane

#38. I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

Cate Marvin

#39. Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.

Amish Tripathi

#40. If you can't say something positive about humanity, then say something equivocal.

Thomas Ligotti

#41. While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believe
that if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well in
my life.

Vann Chow

#42. Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

Herbie Hancock

#43. If We see in Everything something Positive a smile wil sooner be There then a tear,

Jan Jansen

#44. Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Benjamin Hoff

#45. I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.

Judd Apatow

#46. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. Even with Colombe I'll try to do something positive. What matters is what you are doing when you die, and when June 16th comes around, I want to be building.

Muriel Barbery

#47. If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

Emmet Fox

#48. Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

Simone Elkeles

#49. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive ... to build something beautiful.

Steve Maraboli

#50. In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Jamie Foxx

#51. It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Barry Mann

#52. All revolutions are doctrinal - such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity. For it stands to common sense that you cannot upset all existing things, customs, and compromises, unless you believe in something outside them, something positive and divine.

G.K. Chesterton

#53. The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

Dominique Dawes

#54. It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.

Tinchy Stryder

#55. The message is that people are more likely to agree with you when they have already said something positive.

Richard Wiseman

#56. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy

#57. When you are inhabiting a self that is fixed and set in place, you may think that you have attained something positive. As people say, "Now I know who I am." What they really know is an imitation of a real self, a collection of habits, labels, and preferences that is entirely historical.

Deepak Chopra

#58. There is always something positive in the negatives of life. You just have to be strong enough to locate it.

C.L. Swinney

#59. I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.

Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

#60. We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

John Green

#61. The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative ... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.

Skrillex

#62. I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

#63. Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

Leah LaBelle

#64. I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

Erin Hamlin

#65. When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

Frederick Lenz

#66. What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger ...

Harry Chapin

#67. Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.

Ralph Marston

#68. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative hidden in every positive. Life is complicated,

Amish Tripathi

#69. Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.

Adeline Yen Mah

#70. I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

Curtis Jackson

#71. I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don't think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we've got 'Jersey Shore,' and I don't know what that teaches young kids.

Johnny Weir

#72. How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

Gloria Estefan

#73. If your face is going to "talk" for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.

John C. Maxwell

#74. Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

Brian Tracy

#75. The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

David Hasselhoff

#76. As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.

Lea Thompson

#77. Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

Enid Bagnold

#78. It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#79. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

Yoko Ono

#80. Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#81. Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.

George Pattison

#82. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Paul Newman

#83. I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

John Waters

#84. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#85. No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

Ralph Marston

#86. I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.

Patti Smith

#87. The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

Ralph Marston

#88. A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Chino Moreno

#89. It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they're excited about it, and it's cool.

Usher

#90. You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

Buck Brannaman

#91. When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Andy Roddick

#92. I will redirect my feeling of frustration into something positive

Sara Wales

#93. The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

Sakyong Mipham

#94. Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better."
"Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead."
How's that for positivity?
I have to admit it does make me feel better.

Simone Elkeles

#95. If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

Bud Grant

#96. Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Stephen Baker

#97. He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

Leon Brown

#98. Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Hans Hofmann

#99. It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

B.J. Novak

#100. It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

Blake Judd