Quotes About Optimism

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Despair is criminal.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

All things are possible to him who believes.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

This story will never go down.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.