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Quotes About Optimism

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
~ John C. Maxwell
The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.
~ Hartman Rector, Jr.
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
~ Jim Valvano
We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.
~ Zig Ziglar
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.
~ Brian Tracy
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
~ Hans Hofmann
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.
~ Barack Obama
It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.
~ Harvey Mackay
Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES
~ Walter Dill Scott
Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.
~ Robert Breault
The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.
~ Unknown
All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.
~ John C. Maxwell
Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure
~ Bob Bitchin
All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Winning is all in the attitude!
~ Denis Waitley
The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude.
~ Bob Bitchin
We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.
~ Unknown
We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
~ Laura Schlessinger
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Your attitude is a choice.
~ John C. Maxwell
For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.
~ Scott Adams
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
~ William James