Quotes About Optimism

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

If you think you can you can. And if you think you can't you're right.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.

Focus is important. Focus on those parts of yourself that are working. Look at yourself as someone whose body is in the process of healing. Concentrate on the positive parts.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.