Quotes About Optimism

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

During the long healing process, I fell back on my Cherokee ways and adopted what our elders call "a Cherokee approach" to life. They say it is "being of good mind." That means one has to think positively, to take what is handed out and turn it into a better path.

HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

Sunshine is my quest.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail

All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.