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We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Never underestimate the power of intention.
It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.
I got a lot of positive people around me.
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.
Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.
You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.
We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
If you don't give up, you still have a chance.
I want to live my life, not record it.
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
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.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
I cannot be what I am not.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
I see the world at peace. If we can hold that thought, that thought has a power. The thought is witnessing a reality of peace in the world. By witnessing the possibility that it can take place and holding it in my consciousness, then that becomes something that is transmitting into the world. It's like a seed of peace that I'm planting from my consciousness into the world.
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Life isn't a dress rehearsal
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
You never know when the best day of your life is going to be.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.