Positive Quotes

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

~ Domenico Dolce

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.

~ Tom Hanks

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

~ Rafael Nadal

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

~ Bryan Clay

When you think positive, good things happen.

~ Matt Kemp

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

~ Chris Pine

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

~ Deep Roy

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

~ David Carson

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

~ Shari Arison

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

~ Ethel Waters

I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.

~ Jessica White

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

~ Kerry Washington

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.

~ Michael J. Fox

I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.

~ John Cena

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

~ Justin Guarini

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

~ Steven Biko

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

~ Hans Haacke

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

~ Thomas Friedman

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

~ Chen Shui-Bian

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

~ Lindsey Vonn

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

~ James Blunt

I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

~ Tavi Gevinson

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

~ Barry Mann

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

~ William James

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

~ Harvey Fierstein

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

~ Alfred A. Montapert

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

~ Eddie Izzard

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

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

~ Cal Ripken

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.

~ Tiger Woods

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

~ Tom Landry

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

~ John Legend

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

~ John Thune

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

~ Edwin Louis Cole

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

~ Albert Einstein

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

~ Jack Kevorkian

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

~ Joe Johnston