Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
— William Hazlitt
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
— Willard Scott
It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.
— Will Muschamp
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
— Wendy Kopp
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
— Wayne Dyer
Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.
— Warren Moon
I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
— Walter Payton
Trayvon exposed a lot of things. I think something positive will come out of it. It's a blessing in disguise. And he will never be forgotten.
— Walshy Fire
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
— W. Clement Stone
I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
— W. Bruce Cameron
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I'm someone who has always had a positive outlook towards life.
— Vivek Oberoi
On the sets, I am usually positive, open, and happy. I talk to co-stars, I interact with people on the sets, and I chill.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
— Virginia Postrel
I don't think it's correct to blame the captain. He at least tries to keep all together so that the team plays well, plays positive cricket, and wins the match for the country, and not think about only winning and earning a name for himself.
— Virender Sehwag
Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
— Ving Rhames
I had the best footballing year of my life with AZ. The people I've worked with were fantastic. I can only look back on my time in Alkmaar with a positive feeling.
— Vincent Janssen
It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.
— William Godwin
I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.
— Will Rothhaar
I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.
— Will Friedle
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
— Wendell Berry
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
— Washed Out
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
— Wangari Maathai
I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
— Walter O'Brien
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
— Wade Boggs
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.
I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.
— Vusi Mahlasela
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies.
— Vladimir Putin
People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay positive and think positive.
When you've fought and fought to keep positive and to keep creative even though there was not a space to be creative, well, you show me any human who is not angry after 60 years of that.
— Viv Albertine
Why be negative when you can enjoy life and be positive? That's something I learned over the years.
— Virgil van Dijk
On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.
— Virat Kohli
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I just hope I can give positive energy to the squad.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
— William Cowper
I think that, just in general, my number one priority is to just go out of your way to stay yourself and put yourself out there in a positive way. It's so easy, and you can connect with a lot of your friends.
Life is a lot more fun with good, positive people around you.
— Whitney Wolfe Herd
My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
— Wayne Wonder
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
— Walter Rudolf Hess
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
— Walt Disney
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
— W. G. Sebald
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
I do think social media can be positive - there are so many parents online sharing their experiences. I talk to other parents and I've made some brilliant friends. But it can also be nasty.
— Vogue Williams
I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.
— Vivica A. Fox
Life is all about being positive and celebrating what you have in the moment.
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
— Vito Fossella
Like Koeman, Klopp knows exactly how to get the best out of me - by being critical. When the media are hyping me and being very positive, he will downplay the praise and all that - often with a wink.
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
— Vinnie Jones
Everyone in Manchester in general has a positive mindset.
— Vincent Kompany
