“I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.”
Positivity is not about ignoring problems — it is about believing you can handle them. These quotes offer encouragement, perspective, and the kind of levelheaded optimism that helps you get through difficult days without pretending they are easy.
“It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.”
“I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.”
“Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?”
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”
“Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.”
“While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.”
“This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.”
“Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.”
“I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.”
“I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.”
“I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.”
“Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.”
“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.”
“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.”
“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.”
“Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.”