Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to make sure this is a fun, positive celebration of springtime and a venue for children.

Barbara Jordan

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Barbara Kingsolver

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Eileen Caddy

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Eileen Caddy

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

Edward Abbey

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Edward Abbey

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Edward Abbey

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

We're just going to have to keep a positive attitude, keep working in practice. We've got to keep the faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Aldous Huxley

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Sam Walton

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

Abbie Cornish

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Abraham Lincoln

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Persis Khambatta

If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.

John Davidson

I think we will have a positive year.

I think we took a positive step tonight,

Aly Michalka

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

Danielle Steel

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

I just think when you read something that's magnetic that pulls you into it or resonates with you, whatever that may be, that's always a positive thing.