“Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.”
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.
“I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.”
“Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.”
“I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.”
“It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.”
“Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.”
“The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.”
“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.”
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.”
“When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.”
“As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.”
“I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.”
“If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.”
“I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.”