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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
I used to walk down the street like I was a super star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
Remind yourself that problems come not to obstruct, but to instruct.
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
Never underestimate the power of intention.
Nothing soulful is birthed from force.
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Being a mother has made my life complete.
People who feel positively think differently. They think better.
Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
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.
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.
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!
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
If you don't give up, you still have a chance.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.
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.
I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.
It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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.
I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.
I cannot be what I am not.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
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.
I see the world at peace. If we can hold that thought, that thought has a power. The thought is witnessing a reality of peace in the world. By witnessing the possibility that it can take place and holding it in my consciousness, then that becomes something that is transmitting into the world. It's like a seed of peace that I'm planting from my consciousness into the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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.
I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
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.
Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
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.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
You never know when the best day of your life is going to be.
When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.