Positiveness Quotes

• Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

  Isaac Watts

  Opinion, Sunbeams, Written

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• The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.126

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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  The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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

  Patricia Neal

  Motivational, Positive, Strong

  "Patricia Neal obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Attitude, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 26, 2013

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  Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Best beauty tip... Work yourself from the inside out. Eat right, drink right, look right!
  Positive energy brings a certain glow, so think positive, choose positive, be positive & attract positiveness. It always shows up on the outside.

  Mya

  Thinking, Positive Energy, Being Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  Jonathan Swift

  Optimism, Quality, Share

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

  Laurence Sterne

  Happiness, Triumph, Add

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.349

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• [Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.

  Julia Sweeney

  Hitting, Needs, Bad Mood

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• The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

  Andre Rieu

  Important, World, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

  Bruno Heller

  Cheer, Hard Times, Tvs

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• A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Song, Mean

  "Report to Greco". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, transl. by P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, "Naxos", Ch. 11, p. 96, 1973.

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