An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words. — Sanford Meisner
Positive things happen to positive people. — Sarah Beeny
Positive thoughts lead to positive results. — Maria V. Snyder
Behaviors are attractive when they help us fit in. — James Clear
The more a person feels understood, and positively affirmed in that understanding, the more likely that urge for constructive behavior will take hold. — Chris Voss
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious. — Zig Ziglar
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it. — Joan Lunden
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. — Wade Boggs
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative. — Jane Fonda
Attitude is everything, so pick a good one — Wayne Dyer
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. — Harvey Mackay
Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. — James Clear
Positive Behavior Image Quotes
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Nice Quotes
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten. — Tyga
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal. — Nouman Ali Khan
When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. — Wilson Mizner
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. — Johnny Cash
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect. — Colin Powell
Negative Behavior Quotes
People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression. — Byron Katie
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change. — Virginia H. Pearce
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. — Randall Terry
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. — Marianne Williamson
The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack of integrity-a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain. — Tara Leigh Cobble
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski
Most people who are on a spiritual path realize their thoughts are crucial to their experiences. If you have negative thoughts, you draw and attract negative experiences to yourself. But knowing that and ruling your behavior by it can seem like two different things. — Doreen Virtue
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar. — Lauren Mackler
So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful. — Dalai Lama
American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world. — Thomas Sowell
Positive Reinforcement Quotes
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. — B. F. Skinner
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa. — B. F. Skinner
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. — Jim Rohn
Some people are so special, so beautiful and have so much to offer this world. Sad thing is they just don’t see it. They need positive reinforcement. Tell them, 'If you could see only half of what I see in you, then one day you'd realize how truly amazing you really are. — Marc Mero
I’m absolutely convinced that positive, personal reinforcement is the essence of effective leadership. — Michael Abrashoff
The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them. — Marci Shimoff
Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. — Patricia Richardson
Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light. — Marvin J. Ashton
Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts. — Lilian Katz
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before. — Ravi Zacharias
Positive Success Quotes
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. — Dupree Jordan
Positive Thinking Quotes
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Positive Person Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day — Deepak Chopra
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. — John Rawls
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. — Janis Joplin
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. — Joyce Brothers
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. — Obafemi Awolowo
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. — Wayne Dyer
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. — Louise Hay
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani
Positive Training Quotes
The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment — Dorian Yates
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. — Bruce Lee
If you’re smart, you will choose happiness. You can train yourself to look on the bright side so it becomes second nature. — Naval Ravikant
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon. — Alan Loy McGinnis
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. — Shawn Achor
Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant. — Assata Shakur
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations. — Margaret E. Knight
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. — William Hazlitt
There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train. — Margaret Smith
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible. — Marcus Aurelius
Positive Exercise Quotes
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions. — John Mott
People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds. — Louis Zamperini
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Seneca
Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results. — Albert Bandura
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right. — James Madison
Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. — Walt Whitman
Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world. — Katharine Jefferts Schori
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally. — Grete Waitz
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane. — John B. Watson
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy
I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together. — Buck Brannaman
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Unless you are being emotionally rewarded for something, you'll eventually stop doing it, no matter how much willpower you have. To stick to a new positive behavior, you must find a way to make it fun, exciting or emotionally valuable in another way. — Mark Manson
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care — Barbara Fredrickson
An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire. — Paul J. Meyer
Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. — Andy Stanley
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. — Lao Tzu
Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place. — Thomas G. Stemberg
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up. — Stedman Graham
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Viktor E. Frankl
Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance. — Aubrey Daniels
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless. — Kofi Annan
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet
When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others. — Zig Ziglar
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper. — Ilana Mercer
A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him. — Buck Brannaman
A person's self-concept is the core of his personality. — Joyce Brothers
If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on. — Gabrielle Bernstein
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.' — Margo Kaufman
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. — Viktor E. Frankl
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. — Marquis De Sade
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen
Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy. — Dan Millman
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance. — Zicheng Hong
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior. — Jeannette Walls
Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight. — Dalai Lama
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! — Greg Anderson
An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. — Joyce Brothers
Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility. — Edward Hallowell
Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans. — John Rocker
Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children. — Sam Brownback
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