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Positive Quote

A Select Collection of Positive Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Stanislaw J. Lec
He who limps is still walking.

Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.

William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Nancy Reagan
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

Pablo Picasso
I am always doing things, I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Winston Churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Thomas Edison
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Earl Weaver
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Lance Armstrong
I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

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