Positive Quotes - Page 38

• You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  Maya Angelou

  Forgiveness, Mean, Compassion

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• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Breathing, Long, People

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  I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Believe, Positivity, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Men, Justice

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• Hope is a waking dream.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Science

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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• A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

  David Bailey

  Inspirational, Dream, Attitude

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• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

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• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cutting, Sentimental, Infinite

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.87, 谷月社

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• I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

  Tyra Banks

  Food, Junk, Want

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• One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Life, Forgiveness, Women

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Depressing

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Birthday, Happiness

  Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

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

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Adversity, Opportunity, Hard Times

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• A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden, archive.org. 1901.

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• Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Military Quotation Book". Book by James Charlton, p. 37, 1990.

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• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

  Arnold Bennett

  Happiness, Attitude, Discipline

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Birthday, Happiness, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

  Justin Bieber

  Way Forward, Mind, Messages

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• To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Voice, Certainty, Mistaken

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.18, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

  Steven Biko

  Attitude, Long, Black

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