Positive Quotes
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“When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.”
Quote by -Norman Schwarzkopf
“When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.”
Quote by -Yahya Jammeh
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns
Quote by -George Santayana
“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.”
Quote by -George Santayana
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
“It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free should the scholar be, — free and brave… Brave; for fear is a thing, which a scholar by his very function puts behind him. Fear always springs from ignorance… The world is his, who can see through its pretension.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde