Leon Brown
Artist
"You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be."
Being Positive quotes
Being Positive
117 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lil B
Rapper
"I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive."
Herschel Walker
Football Player
"When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up."
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Let's make a dent in the universe"
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"Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level."
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"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right."
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"Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be."
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"I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions."
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"The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing."
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"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for."
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"I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work."
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"Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities."
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"The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it."
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"... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge."
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"Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny."
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"Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman."
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"What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant."
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"Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being."
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"The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?"
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"Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."
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"Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny."
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"When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."
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