Quotes on Positive

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.