Quotes on Positive

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.