Quotes About Optimism

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

There never was night that had no morn.

Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! ... Each morning is the open door to a new world-new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment.

My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says, "Don't worry, Be Happy, Feel Good." When you see that first thing, and you reflect on it, the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.