Good Quotes

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

~ Martin Seligman Quotes from Learned Optimism
Self-Development Quotes on: Learn, Future, Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, Permanence, Act, Better, Good, Bad, Practice, Despair, Believe, People, Optimist

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Motivational Quotes on: Action, Learn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Act, Good, Bad

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

~ Junior Murchison Quotes
Inspirational Quotes on: Good, Money

"Oh, Little Blue Engine," cried the dolls and toys. "Will you pull us over the mountain? Our engine has broken down and the boys and girls on the other side won't have any toys to play with or good food to eat, unless you help us. Please, please, let us, Little Blue Engine." "I'm not very big," said the Little Blue Engine. "They use me only for switching trains in the yard. I have never been over the mountains." ... Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. "I think I can--I think I can--I think can--I think can--I think I can--I think can--I think can--I think I can--I think can--I think can."

~ Ray Bradbury Quotes
Famous Quotes on: Think, Good

Speak from your heart and don't worry about how it's going to be taken and ask with the intention of it doing the highest good for everyone involved.

~ Dr. Gary Arthur Quotes
Self-Development Quotes on: Worry, Intent, Intention, Heart, Good, Doing

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

~ William Shakespeare Quotes
Motivational Quotes on: Fear, William Shakespeare, Good, Doubt, Win

Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

~ Anthony de Mello Quotes
Inspirational Quotes on: Good, Fail, Anthony De Mello, Beauty

In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.

~ Dr. David Hawkins Quotes from Power vs. Force
Famous Quotes on: Act, Kind, Power, Good, Life, Effort, Universe

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

~ John Eliot, Ph.D. Quotes from Overachievement
Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence, John Eliot, Overachievement, New, Good, Great, Achievement, Believe

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great
Motivational Quotes on: Good, Great, Strong, Wise