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Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Make me immortal with a kiss.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Being a mother has made my life complete.
I got a lot of positive people around me.
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
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.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
A President cannot always be popular.
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!
If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
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 can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.
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.
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.
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.
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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.
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.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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.
I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
I cannot be what I am not.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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.
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.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
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.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
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.
Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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.
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
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.
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.