300 Quotes on Positive

• In a world where you can be anything, be kind. It costs nothing but can mean everything.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• Do not be afraid of change, embrace it and ride the wave of possibility.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• When in doubt, dance it out!

  Author: Sophie Ellis

• Choose kindness as your weapon of choice in a world filled with noise and confusion.

  Author: Grace Thompson

• Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.

  Author: Emily Smith

• Life is a canvas and artistry thrives in its imperfections.

  Author: Serena Williams

• Happiness is not found in a destination, but in the journey there.

  Author: Samantha Miller

• The sun will always rise, bringing hope and new beginnings each day.

  Author: Sarah Williams

• Never underestimate the power of kindness and its ability to change the world one small act at a time.

  Author: Jennifer Lopez

• Don't be afraid to shine your light - the world needs your brilliance to spark change.

  Author: Maya Angelou

• Never underestimate the power of small acts of kindness, for they have the ability to change the world one person at a time.

  Author: Jane Goodall

• Plant the seeds of kindness wherever you go, and watch as the world blossoms into a more beautiful place.

  Author: Sarah Smith

• It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

  Author: David Zucker

• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• 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.

  Author: Martin Yan

• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

  Author: John Wooden

• My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

  Author: William Wills

• One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

  Author: Roy Williams

• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

  Author: Len Wein

• But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

  Author: Marc Wallice

• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

  Author: Jimmy Wales

• I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

  Author: John Thune

• Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

  Author: Brandon Thomas

• While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

  Author: Roger Taylor

• STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

  Author: George Takei

• Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

  Author: Henrietta Szold

• If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

  Author: Dorothy Stratten

• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  Author: David Strathairn

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  Author: W. Stone

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  Author: W. Stone

• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  Author: B. Skinner

• For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

  Author: Chloe Sevigny

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  Author: Hans Selye

• What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

  Author: William Scott

• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

  Author: Willard Scott

• Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

  Author: Richard Scott

• 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.

  Author: Norman Schwarzkopf

• It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• I want to come across as a positive person.

  Author: Greta Scacchi

• I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  Author: George Santayana

• It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

  Author: Nolan Ryan

• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

  Author: Mitt Romney

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

  Author: Andy Roddick

• Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

  Author: Knute Rockne

• You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

  Author: Jane Roberts

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  Author: Pat Riley

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

  Author: Bill Richardson

• We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

  Author: Janet Reno

• When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

  Author: Tim Reid

• But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

  Author: Godfrey Reggio

• I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

  Author: Jamie Redknapp

• The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

  Author: Herbert Read

• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

  Author: Aishwarya Rai

• I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• 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.

  Author: Lisa Presley

• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  Author: Gail Porter

• The most positive men are the most credulous.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

  Author: Thomas Peters

• The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

  Author: John Perkins

• It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

  Author: Barbara Olson

• We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

  Author: Chuck Norris

• The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

  Author: Albert Nock

• I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

  Author: Yannick Noah

• When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

  Author: Juice Newton

• I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

  Author: Huey Newton

• So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

  Author: John Newcombe

• More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Author: Willie Nelson

• The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

  Author: Robert Nelson

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  Author: Patricia Neal

• If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

  Author: Parminder Nagra

• There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

  Author: Jerry Nachman

• 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.

  Author: Jason Mraz

• Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

  Author: Dick Morris

• Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

  Author: Alfred Montapert

• I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

  Author: George Mitchell

• Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

  Author: Dannii Minogue

• The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

  Author: Ho Minh

• I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

  Author: Penelope Miller

• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  Author: Laura Miller

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  Author: Laura Miller

• It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris" like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

  Author: Mark McGwire

• There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

  Author: John McDonald

• It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.

  Author: Scott McCallum

• You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

  Author: Ralph Marston

• I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

  Author: Dan Marino

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  Author: Taryn Manning

• For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

  Author: Herbie Mann

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

  Author: Barry Mann

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  Author: Camryn Manheim

• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

  Author: Joan Lunden

• The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

  Author: Greg Louganis

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Author: Lance Loud

• I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

  Author: Brian Littrell

• I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.

  Author: Brian Littrell

• I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

  Author: Gordon Lightfoot

• Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

  Author: Lisa Leslie

• 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.

  Author: Sean Lennon

• A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

  Author: Tony Lema

• Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

  Author: Gottfried Leibniz

• But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

  Author: Geddy Lee

• Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

  Author: Stephen Leacock

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  Author: David Lawrence

• Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

  Author: Guy Laliberte

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  Author: Imre Lakatos

• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  Author: Imre Lakatos

• I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

  Author: Mike Krzyzewski

• In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

  Author: Mike Krzyzewski

• Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

  Author: Diane Kruger

• You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

  Author: Jerry Kramer

• There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

  Author: Brian Koslow

• The most important thing is to stay positive.

  Author: Saku Koivu

• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  Author: Saku Koivu

• To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

  Author: Paul Klee

• To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

  Author: Maxine Kingston

• It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

  Author: Lil' Kim

• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

  Author: David Kay

• I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

  Author: Casey Kasum

• That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

  Author: Casey Kasem

• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

  Author: Anatoly Karpov

• Accent your positive and delete your negative.

  Author: Donna Karan

• The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

  Author: Paul Kantner

• I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

  Author: Rosabeth Kanter

• I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

  Author: Paul Kane

• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

  Author: Franz Kafka

• Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

  Author: Michael Jordan

• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

  Author: Mary Jones

• I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

  Author: Curtis Jones

• I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

  Author: Daniel Johns

• The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

  Author: Bruce Jenner

• Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  Author: William James

• To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

  Author: Janet Jackson

• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

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

  Author: Lee Iacocca

• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

  Author: Lee Iacocca

• The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

  Author: Mark Hyman

• Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

  Author: Bill Hybels

• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• Only fools are positive.

  Author: Moe Howard

• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Author: Jose Horta

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

  Author: Anita Hill

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  Author: Walter Hess

• Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

  Author: Marilu Henner

• Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

  Author: Marilu Henner

• The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

  Author: Georg Hegel

• As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

  Author: Seamus Heaney

• It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

  Author: Mary Hart

• Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

  Author: Garrett Hardin

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  Author: Garrett Hardin

• 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.

  Author: Daryl Hannah

• People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

  Author: Nhat Hanh

• As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

  Author: John Hall

• The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

  Author: Dante Hall

• Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

  Author: Justin Guarini

• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

  Author: Stanislav Grof

• We may not be able to control the waves, but we can learn how to surf.

  Author: Jon Krakauer

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  Author: Garrett Graff

• He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

  Author: David Gower

• I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

  Author: Tipper Gore

• Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

  Author: Lesley Gore

• I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

  Author: Genevieve Gorder

• Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

  Author: Genevieve Gorder

• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

  Author: Gil Gerard

• I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

  Author: Leif Garrett

• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

  Author: James Froude

• I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

  Author: Will Friedle

• You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

  Author: Emmet Fox

• In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

  Author: Vito Fossella

• 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.

  Author: George Foreman

• When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

  Author: Peggy Fleming

• I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

  Author: Harvey Fierstein

• The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

  Author: Mike Ferguson

• I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

  Author: Jim Evans

• A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.

  Author: Recep Erdogan

• We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

  Author: Keith Emerson

• One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

  Author: John Elway

• A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

  Author: John Elway

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  Author: Sam Elliott

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

  Author: Elizabeth Edwards

• A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

  Author: Elizabeth Edwards

• 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.

  Author: King Edward VIII

• You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

  Author: Fran Drescher

• We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.

  Author: Roma Downey

• The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

  Author: Taye Diggs

• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

  Author: Richard DeVos

• We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

  Author: Jim DeMint

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  Author: Taylor Dayne

• I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

  Author: Gray Davis

• 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?

  Author: Rick Danko

• An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

  Author: Donald Cram

• Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

  Author: William Cowper

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

  Author: Robert Cook

• You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

  Author: Nadia Comaneci

• I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

  Author: Nadia Comaneci

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  Author: Robert Collier

• God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

  Author: Edwin Cole

• Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

  Author: Thad Cochran

• Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

  Author: John Clayton

• There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

  Author: John Clayton

• I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

  Author: Laurel Clark

• When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  Author: Thomas Cech

• I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

  Author: Tia Carrere

• Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

  Author: Les Brown

• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

  Author: Joyce Brothers

• But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

  Author: Georg Brandes

• It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

  Author: Erskine Bowles

• I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

  Author: Emma Bonino

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  Author: Wade Boggs

• And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

  Author: John Boehner

• It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

  Author: Alexis Bledel

• For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

  Author: Ken Blanchard

• To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

  Author: Justin Bieber

• We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

  Author: Jeff Bezos

• Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

  Author: Isaiah Berlin

• So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

  Author: Dennis Bergkamp

• Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  Author: Hans Bender

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  Author: Victoria Beckham

• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

  Author: Franz Beckenbauer

• At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

  Author: Franz Beckenbauer

• This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

  Author: Charles Barkley

• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

  Author: Honore Balzac

• I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

  Author: James Baldwin

• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

  Author: Mikhail Bakunin

• A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

  Author: David Bailey

• Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

  Author: Jean Auel

• The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

  Author: John Astin

• His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

  Author: Maurice Ashley

• Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

  Author: Timothy Ash

• One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

  Author: Mary Antin

• I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

  Author: Kevin Anderson

• Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

  Author: Greg Anderson

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