- You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
Carlos Ghosn
- I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz
- I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
Pitbull
- That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
George Foreman
- You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox
- I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
Corazon Aquino
- Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
John H. Johnson
- You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
- There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
Brian Koslow
- Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
- Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson
- Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
John Lydon
- There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
Hillary Clinton
- Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt
- I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
Bryan Clay
- Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Yao Ming
- Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
Martin Yan
- Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
Edward VIII
- I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That’s why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
Daryl Hannah
- If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom
- Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare
- Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
John Wooden
- Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
- The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
- There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
- Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
- Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
- Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
- I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
- Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
- I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.
Nikos Kazantzakis
- Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
- God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
- Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior
- Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
- For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson
- I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
Loretta Young
- A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
- I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
- Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Ellen DeGeneres
- I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins
- Prayer is man’s greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
- Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul
- We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
- Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin
- The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola
- Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
- Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Pope Paul VI
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
- Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen
- What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller