Quotes About Optimism

But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.

Fresh as a new notebook — that's how anyone wanted to live. Hopeful as a pencil sharpened, clear as one beam of light landing on the table's far side.

Last year we thought this year would be better and this year last year looks pretty good.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit. Within every problem is an opportunity. Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.

A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word impossible, and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.

the famous Emil Coué formula, 'Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better'

until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you know your own mind, you know enough to keep it always positive.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word impossible. He knows all the rules which will NOT work. He knows all the things which CANNOT be done.

positive mental attitude…Not just how to form a positive mental attitude

If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

Here is a man who sees nothing but the best there is in all whom he meets. If his neighbors seem indifferent he takes no notice of that fact, for he makes it his business to fill his mind with dominating thoughts of optimism and good cheer and faith in others.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what they say if you meet with temporary defeat, for they, perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.

Una de las mayores debilidades de la humanidad es la familiaridad del hombre promedio con la palabra "imposible". É

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible.

A negative mind spawns only negative ideas.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost, For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will— It's all in the state of mind.

nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.

So we do not lose heart… Because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

If you think you are outclassed, you are, You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!