Quotes About Positivity

Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!

May your troubles be less Your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness Come through your door.

I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

Having hope," writes Daniel Goleman in his study of emotional intelligence, "means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks." Hope is "more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right"; it is "believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals.

Thirdly, the advice is not to dash out and impress others by posing, pretending or downright lying about one's successfulness. The only one to impress, at least at first, is yourself, and that only to the extent of making for yourself a congenial working-atmosphere. The recommendation, once more, is simply this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up.

Grab your coat and get your hat,Leave your worry on the doorstep,Just direct your feetTo the sunny side of the street.

If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

Remember, as you look at yourself, to look kindly, and also remember that you are not balancing a checkbook: anything you see that you don't like, or that you want to change, is not a debit that you subtract from your virtues. When you learn to reflect on your strengths, it becomes easier to look at your weaknesses with acceptance and compassion. Keep your virtues at their full value and cherish them.

when sex and love and intimacy are truly free, and seen as positive forces in our lives and in the world, we will be much more able to solve the problems of rape, sexual bullying, shaming, and repression.

When there is darkness there is no point to be down. It is your chance to shine!

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

The grateful world is a world of joyful people.

if you allow yourself to rise above a short-term perspective and super-charged rhetoric, the big picture is still looking better than ever before.

By just about every measure, America is better, and the world is better, than it was fifty years ago, thirty years ago, or even ten years ago.

She was relatively cheerful and full of humor by nature, and could only maintain a state of rage for so long.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Smile, it's free therapy.

And yet there she was. The possible felicitous future. The hope we all crave. Can we do this? Can we somehow find a way of making each other happy? And, in turn, remind ourselves: we are not alone in the dark. It's what we all want. Isn't it?

Without gratitude, the prevailing attitudes of life are blame and resentment.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.