Quotes About Optimism

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. This book was written for those who seek the rules which have made others successful, and are willing to stake everything on those rules.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the world only an ocean of to-morrows, a sky of to-morrows.

It's going to come out all right—do you know? The sun, the birds, the grass—they know. They get along—and we'll get along. Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting And the letter you wait for won't come, 5 And I will sit watching the sky tear off gray and gray And the letter I wait for won't come.

I speak of new cities and new people I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the world only an ocean of tomorrows. a sky of tomorrows. I am a brother of the cornhuskers who say at sundown: Tomorrow is a day." - Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

It's going to come out all right—do you know? The sun, the birds, the grass—they know. They get along—and we'll get along. Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting And the letter you wait for won't come, And I will sit watching the sky tear off gray and gray And the letter I wait for won't come.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Conserva tus sueños, nunca sabes cuando te harán falta.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

Había querido creer que saldríamos adelante con soplos de miseria y de esperanza.

Hope is no more than the belief that that moment hasn't yet come

Er kam daher, den Kopf in den Wolken, ein Lächeln um die Lippen und mit der heiteren Miene derer, die es sich leisten können, nicht zu wissen, wie die Welt funktioniert.

Mientras haya chavales en pantalón corto que sepan manejar esdrújulas habrá esperanza

Eu o observam cu coada ochiului È™i îmi d?deam seama c?, numai când m? uitam la ea, începea s?-mi vin? mai puÈ›in greu s? cred c?, poate, înc? mai r?m?sese ceva bun È™i decent în lumea asta mizerabil? È™i, cu ceva noroc, în mine însumi.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive.

To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us.

May all the ones ahead be better than those that have already passed.

Wake up every morning and eat a bullfrog first thing, and the rest of the day will go just fine.

Do you ever have a negative thought in your head?" Rick asked. "Used to, then I figured out that positive can't survive in a negative atmosphere, so I have a mental 'Delete' button that I press real often. Do you have bad thoughts?" she asked.

You know there's sunshine back in behind most storms.

Let go of the past. Live today and look forward to the future