Positive Quotes By Philosophers, Poets, and Authors.

“You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”
Emmet Fox
 1886 – 1951

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
William James
 1842 – 1910 

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
W. Clement Stone
 1902 – 2002 

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
Zig Ziglar
1926 – 2012

“To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
Eckhart Tolle
1948 – 

“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.”
 Abraham Maslow
 1908 – 1970

“Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
  T.S. Elliot
  1888 – 1965

“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.”
Steve Jobs
  1955 – 2011

“If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.”
Wayne Dyer
 1940 – 2015

“As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.”
Dalai Lama

“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative – whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”
Sylvia Plath
1932 – 1963

“Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.”
Colin Powell
 1937 – 2021

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard
1856 – 1915

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 – 1882

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 – 1831

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammed Ali
1942 – 2016