Positive Quotes - page 5

I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly. (Gloria Estefan)
How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world? View quote
Gloria Estefan
Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world. View quote
Goldie Hawn
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. View quote
Patricia Neal
The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness. View quote
Emil Cioran
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down. View quote
Emil Cioran
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. View quote
Maya Angelou
I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within. View quote
Hayley Williams
As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. View quote
George W. Bush
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul. (Hans Hofmann)
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy. View quote
Chen Shui-bian
It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed. View quote
Patañjali
At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing. View quote
Michelle Kwan
A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc. View quote
Kyuzo Mifune
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. View quote
Phil Plait
On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal. View quote
Derek Jarman
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it - that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets. View quote
Tarja Halonen
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. View quote
Imre Lakatos
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. (Imre Lakatos)
I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. View quote
William Cowper
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress. View quote
Jack Layton
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.'... A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers. View quote
Laura Riding