Quotes on Positive

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.