Positive Quotes

The most positive men are the most credulous. (Alexander Pope)
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. View quote
Tim Allen
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. View quote
Lee Iacocca
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. View quote
Earl Warren
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. View quote
Huey P. Newton
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. (Zig Ziglar)
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. View quote
Pablo Picasso
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. View quote
Manuel Puig
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
Everything has positive and negative consequences. View quote
Farrah Fawcett
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. View quote
Les Brown
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. View quote
Pat Riley
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right. (Tyra Banks)
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. View quote
John Ruskin
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. View quote
Gustav Holst
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. View quote
Willie Nelson
I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. View quote
Temple Grandin