Be Positive Quotes

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

My voice is still the same and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh mon Dieu when I think what I might be able to do with it!

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.

1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.

He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.

They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.

To make the world a friendly place one must show it a friendly face.

People are not going to love you unless you love them.

People by and large will relate to the image you project.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.

Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.

We planted flowers last year and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.

If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

If you've got it flaunt it. If you do not pretend.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.

Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

If you act like you're rich you'll get rich.

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.