Quotes About Constructive

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

If depression, loneliness, and social anxiety maintain themselves through a vicious circle of negative experiences, negative thinking, and self-defeating behavior, it should be possible to break the circle at any of several points—by changing the environment, by training the person to behave more constructively, or by reversing negative thinking. And it is. Several therapy methods help free people from depression's vicious circle.

What would happen to our change practices if we began all our work with the positive presumption that organizations, as centers of human relatedness, are alive with infinite constructive capacity?

I might want to be critical, but I don't wish to be destructive.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.