Being Positive Quotes - Page 8

• You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

  Teemu Selanne

  Smile, Hockey, Shooting

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• But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

  Anne Hathaway

  Negative, Remember, Very Positive

  "Anne Hathaway: Jokes about Oscar speech 'get to me'". www.today.com. February 26, 2013.

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• To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

  Ray Toro

  Reality, Dumb, Faces

  "What the players said" by Dirk von Gehlen, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

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• There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.

  Amy Chan

  Differences, Delusional

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• There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive.

  Metta World Peace

  Negativity, Trying, World

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• Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Bad Day, Emotional

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• If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

  Gelett Burgess

  Mean, Past, Wish

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• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  Bipasha Basu

  Laughing, Cynical, Important

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• Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

  Earl Nightingale

  Grateful, Cheerful

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• I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Fans, Negative

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• We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

  Joshua Radin

  Struggle, Choices, Mind

  "Joshua Radin, Singer-Songwriter: So Much To Say, So Much To Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Confused, Optimistic, Light

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• Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.

  Lester Levenson

  Self, Hands, Two

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• You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.

  Gary B Smith

  Party, Mean, Odds

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• Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Eye

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• You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

  McKayla Maroney

  Light, People, Trying

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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.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Suspense

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.213, VM eBooks

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• Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Negative

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• The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

  Rudolf Clausius

  Law, Transformation, Process

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• You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Talking, Athletics

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

  Rhys Darby

  Optimistic, Outlook On Life, Faces

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Evil, Overcoming, Principles

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• I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  War, Ideas, Atheism

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria

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• It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

  Tom DeLonge

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Great Things

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• To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

  Shinzo Abe

  Children, Japan, Issues

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