positivity quotes

Giving up cannot be an option.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.