Quotes about positivity

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Paula Abdul

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Ernest Hemingway

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective. If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

Tom Landry

I feel like I’ve lived the dream for sure, I’m the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I’m proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you’re really doing something.

Jim Carrey

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

Norman Vincent Peale

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

John Gray

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Norman Vincent Peale

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad – or as positive and negative – are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Buckminster Fuller

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton