Jimmy Cliff Quotes

In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Optimism can be relearnt.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.