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Short Positive Quotes

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

Albert Einstein

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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

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

Inspirational Positive Quotes

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

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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

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

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen

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

Richard G. Scott

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Positive Quotes for Work

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.

Paul Cellucci

If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.

Rick Renzi

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

Steve Irwin

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.

Jim DeMint

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Dave Eggers

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Mitch Daniels

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

Michael Chertoff

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.

Ibrahim Rugova

More Positive Quotes

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

Les Brown

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

Joan Blades

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

Nicholas D. Kristof

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

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

Lee Iacocca

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

Peter Mandelson

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

Garrett Hardin

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

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

James A. Baldwin

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

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

William Cowper

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

Genevieve Gorder

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

Edwin Louis Cole

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

Brian Tracy

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

Lech Walesa

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

Herbert Read

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Abdul Kalam

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

Helen Suzman

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

Seamus Heaney

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

Garrett Hardin

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Linus Torvalds

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

William Ralph Inge

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Patricia Ireland

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

Ernest Istook

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

Joyce Brothers

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

Georg Simmel

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Francis Parker Yockey

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

Zig Ziglar

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

Bill Hybels

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Jay Alan Sekulow

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

Philip Emeagwali

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.

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

Honore de Balzac

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

Patrick Marber

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

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

Imre Lakatos

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Charles R. Swindoll

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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

Laura Miller

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

Mike Johanns

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Henry Ellis

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

Jean M. Auel

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