"Everybody likes a compliment."

Positive, Compliment, President

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"If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know."

Dorothy Stratten, Canadian Celebrity

Positive, Fun, Talk, Want

"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Positive, Voice

"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

Positive, Danger, Nothing

"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Positive, Suffering, World

"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

Positive, Realism, Sense, Writers

"When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one."

Tim Reid, American Actor

Positive, Being, Culture, Media

"When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight."

Peggy Fleming, American Athlete

Positive, Fight

"I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic."

Emma Bonino, Italian Politician

Positive, Flexibility

"Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families."

Mitt Romney, American Politician

Positive, Conservatism, Economy, Security

"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

Positive, Obligation, Reflection, Responsibility

Explore more quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

Truth, Time, People, Fool

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in."

Education, Importance, Future, Progress

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

Government, Power, People, Hope

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

Innovation, Genius, President

"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."

Emotion, Temper, Apology, Patience

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Happiness, Mindset, Choice, Life

"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good."

Politics, Honesty, Wisdom, Public, Ethics

"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."

Truth, Nothing, President

"Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived."

Power, Force, Victory, War

"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."

Leadership, Decisions, Public, Sentiment