Quotes on Being Positive

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.