Quotes About Optimism

The more positive you and I become, the more we will be in the flow of God. God is certainly positive, and to flow with Him, we must also be positive.

When you live in the garden of hope, something is always blooming!

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success.

God wants you to trust Him and have a happy expectation for something good. If you're in a tough situation today, expect it to change. If you're in a good situation today, expect it to get even better. God is a God of hope.

What is confidence? I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do and not worrying over what you can't do. Confident people do not concentrate on their weaknesses; they develop and maximize their strengths.

Pay attention to the condition of your mind and keep it free, peaceful, and full of faith.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. Sugar Ray Robinson

I'd rather believe for a whole lot and get half of it than believe for a little bit and get all of it.

Confidence and negativity do not go together. They are like oil and water;

The word impossible is not in my dictionary. Napoleon Bonaparte

Thomas Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."1

The true Christian must be both an idealist and a realist. We must have dreams and visions for better things in the future because that is what faith demands. However at the same time, we cannot ignore the reality of what is taking place right now. The key is not to let what you see now steal what you believe for the future.

Choose, instead, to believe God is going to do something even better in your life.

A person is not a failure because she tried some things that did not work out. She fails only when she stops trying.

Confident people make it a habit to think and act positively. Therefore, they enjoy life, and they accomplish a lot.

Remember that a negative mind produces a negative life.

We can complain and remain, or praise and be raised.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank

Think Yourself Happy

If we were supposed to be looking back at where we came from, we would have eyes in the back of our head, but we don't. Our eyes are at the front of us, so we can always look forward.

Whatever may be troubling you, shake it off! God has great things planned for you. The dreams of the future leave no room for the snakebites of the past.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." —Unknown I

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."1

Do not abandon yourself to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II