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Quotes About Optimism

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
~ Wilma Rudolph
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.
~ Dabo Swinney
If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me.
~ Paula Scher
There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.
~ Hal Moore
Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure.
~ Bill Burr
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
~ Pope John XXII
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
~ David Brooks
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
~ Thomas A. Edison
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.
~ Zig Ziglar
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
~ Joseph Addison
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
~ Dale Carnegie
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
The hardest game to win is a won game
~ Emanuel Lasker
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
~ Napoleon Hill
The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
~ Bruce Lee
If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.
~ Robert Orben
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
~ Martin Seligman
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
~ Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
~ Thomas J. Watson
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
~ Jon Gordon