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Positive Quotes

Popularly known as optimism, to most of us positivity relates to the encouragement of constructive thoughts about the future outcomes. Positive attitude is read, analyzed and discussed in detail under psychology and philosophy. The factors that influences a positive frame of mind are categorized as biological and environmental factors, the latter being the most important one. Today, an increasing number of people undergo positive thinking sessions to help boost their approach and motivation in life. Read through these unique positive quotations and sayings that will make a difference to your life.

Haiti, if you've ever met a Haitian person, they are just really positive, and literally, if you're friends with them, then they will do anything for you. So I think that's something that is, like, a really good trait, and I'm really happy that my grandparents and my dad's side of the family is like that.

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.

Sam Elliott

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

People Luck
Lou Holtz

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Les Brown

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Justin Bieber

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.

Sonia Sotomayor

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Amitabh Bachchan

Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an individual thought.

People Togetherness
Dwyane Wade

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

George Miller

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

Les Brown

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

Brian Tracy

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

Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Charli D'Amelio

Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way.

Gal Gadot

I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

Donnie Yen

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

Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Jason Bateman

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

Jameela Jamil

I like the fact that Tess Holliday is comfortable in her own skin and loves herself. I think that's a hugely positive message that women of all sizes really need to adopt.

Eudora Welty

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Hope Hicks

President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him.

Dolly Parton

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Jamie Foxx

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

Nick Jonas

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.

James Baldwin

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

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Betty White

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.

Life Humor
Tyra Banks

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

Tiger Woods

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Amy Adams

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

People Stupidity
Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Joseph Campbell

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Millie Bobby Brown

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

Media Social Media

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.

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.'

Russell Wilson

I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.

Demi Lovato

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

Hillary Clinton

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

Walt Disney

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent.

Miley Cyrus

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.

John Krasinski

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

Lenny Kravitz

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Sean Lennon

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.

Ian Somerhalder

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Revolution Time Fighting
Willie Nelson

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

William James

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Kobe Bryant

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Patrick Swayze

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Dwyane Wade

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Pat Riley

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.

Noam Chomsky

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Paulo Coelho

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Zig Ziglar

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

Michael Jordan

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Lewis Hamilton

When you get out of the car after the feeling that you have after leading the race, and the car fails, it's pretty hard to say positive things all the time.

Caitlyn Jenner

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

Britney Spears

I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.

Heart Hope Dreams
Tucker Carlson

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people.

Maya Angelou

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

George Foreman

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.

Lee Iacocca

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

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Khalil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Trust Dreams
Charli D'Amelio

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

Roger Federer

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

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.

Zac Efron

There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

Deepika Padukone

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

Dan Bilzerian

Anything that we can do to help men be more confident, I think that's going to be a net positive.

Michael J. Fox

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Good People Action

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

Pablo Picasso

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

Antonio Brown

Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy.

No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

Cameron Diaz

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

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.

Michael Jordan

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Josh Brolin

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

Shawn Mendes

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.

George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Paul Klee

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

Betty White

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Garrett Hedlund

You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

Elizabeth Debicki

I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.

Mesut Ozil

It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.

My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.