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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.
When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
I got a lot of positive people around me.
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Earth angels help others remember who they are.
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Never mistake motion for action.
Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream.
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.
But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.
When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.
You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
A person hears only what they understand.
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.