Daily Quote's to Ponder

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.'

I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

When my inner mood is positive, I also feel great on the outside.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it's a strong role. Never negative.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced.

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

When you win, nothing hurts.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.

I had confidence in my quality, so I was always positive and had good objectivity.

Rising incomes and positive demographics will provide opportunities for retail financial services in India.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.