Positive Quotes

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.

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“At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.”

— Paul Feig

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“I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.”

— Gus Van Sant

“I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.”

— Corey Feldman

“You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.”

— Garrett Hedlund

“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”

— Franz Kafka

“More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.”

— Simon Mainwaring

“I would like to be a positive force for young girls.”

— Leona Lewis

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”

— Tom Peters

“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

— John Wooden

“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?”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.”

— Betty White

“More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.”

— Kiana Tom

“I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.”

— Johnny Vegas

“You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.”

— Miley Cyrus

“The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.”

— George Osborne

“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.”

— Miley Cyrus

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