Be Positive Quotes

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

To change and to improve are two different things.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Any truth creates a scandal.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

The key to change ... is to let go of fear.