I get so many big ideas while I’m running and such clarity while I’m lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.
All my life, I have been a positive thinker… I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event – no matter how tragic – one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
For me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.
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.
It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
I just try to keep myself positive and really active.
I’m an activist. I’m a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
I’m on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I’ve never had a negative interaction.
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
The research says that being successful doesn’t automatically make you happier, but being happier – being more positive – makes you more successful.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective. If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
For me, stardom is feeling happiness and being positive.
If you have a positive frame of mind, you can manifest positive things in your life.
Being reminded of your past doesn’t mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.
If anybody has a bad day, they’ll just come to my room because they know I’ll bring out the positive in everything, or I’ll make them laugh, or I’ll be just crazy.
We breathe life into a role, and it’s overwhelming to receive positive feedback.
You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for it.
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
If it’s great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It’s a positive force.
By harnessing our teammates’ unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe.
‘Carpe Diem’ is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone.
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that!
For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it’s also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it’s positive or negative, as long as it’s three dimensional.
I’m a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.
We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country.
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
For me, I just want to be positive.
I learned to forget everything. To concentrate on my music and thank God for all good moments. Because the positive attracts the positive. You must work, work and work to get the most out of it.
As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that’s a part of life I don’t worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don’t go mad, and I don’t have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.
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.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
Wrigley, beyond its status as a baseball icon, has an undeniable positive energy all its own, which penetrates all who enter its gates.
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
Regardless of what you’re put through or what is going on in your life, keep a positive spirit. That will help you get through it.
I think we always need to see the positive.
I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I’m trying to spread positive vibes.
When you think positive, good things happen.
I have a really positive mindset about everything.
Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.
I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.
In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren’t so good.
If they are not positive about the run, I won’t talk to them. I’m not here to play games with the media.
The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
Always be your true self, and surround yourself with positive and supportive people.
