Very Positive Quotes

• Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

  Joyce Brothers

  Motivational, Cheer, Inspirational Life

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• There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Commitment, People

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

  A. C. Benson

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Positive, Mistake

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “JumpStart Your Growth: A 90-Day Improvement Plan”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Prayer, Positive Thinking, Positive Thoughts

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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• Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

  Ashley Graham

  Basketball, Impact, Games

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

  Anne Hathaway

  Being Positive, Negative, Remember

  "Anne Hathaway: Jokes about Oscar speech 'get to me'". www.today.com. February 26, 2013.

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• In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.

  Bill Gates

  Growing Up, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Impact, Tennis

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• The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

  Bill Richardson

  Islamic, Talking, Iraq

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• I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

  Bill Gates

  War, Epidemics, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

  Georg Simmel

  Stranger, Form, Relation

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• One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters were very positive and reinforcing on the part of the father of a son. Some were occasions where a father had to tell his son or his sons that the path that they were following was incorrect before the Lord.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Father, Book, Son

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

  Tom Kite

  Golf, Events, Nervous

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• There are some dark days when I do receive some racist mail or emails. But overall the response to me has been very positive. Readers relate to me not just as an African-American, but as an American trying to make sense of her personal finance, just like them.

  Michelle Singletary

  Dark, African American, Trying

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

  Julia Roberts

  Actors, Flattery, Courses

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

  Stephane Simian

  Stars, Tennis, Sides

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• If I walk in the house, and I greet my wife, and I give her a hug, kiss her on the cheek, and I say to her, "Honey, how'd your day go," and I listed to how her day went. If I say, "Is there anything I can do to help you," and she tells me, "Honey, if you could peel the potatoes," or whatever, I have influenced my wife in a very positive way.

  Gary Chapman

  Kissing, Giving, Wife

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• A [Donald] Trump win might be bad for stocks, but it would be very positive for the dollar and Treasurys.

  Gary Shilling

  Winning, Dollars, Would Be

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Moral, Settling

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 6

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• I think the Tea Party monicker has kind of outlived its use. I think this is just an America movement, I mean, and you and others are really, you know, responsible for igniting this new civic engagement that's very positive.

  Laura Ingraham

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

  Rachel McAdams

  Philosophy, Guilt, Movement

  Source: thefancarpet.com

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• The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, World, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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