Quotes About Optimism

To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them.

I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go on trying.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that....

I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.