Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. — Colin Powell
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. — Bruce Lee
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton
Positive thoughts lead to positive results. — Maria V. Snyder
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. — Seth Godin
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? — Robert Noyce
Think BIG and always focus on the positive — Donald Trump
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life. — Joel Benjamin
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality. — Josemaria Escriva
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious. — Zig Ziglar
Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. — Jon Gordon
Positivity And Optimism Image Quotes
Distance yourself from negativity or it will deplete your well of optimism.
What Is Positivity Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone. — St. Catherine of Siena
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. — Leo Buscaglia
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it. — Seymour Papert
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. — Nicky Gumbel
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. — Helen Keller
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S. Truman
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
That you have no time to criticise others,
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
And too happy to permit the presence of trouble. — Christian D. Larson
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. — Pete du Pont
I find negativity is infectious and also very depressing. Choose friends who you admire and aspire to be like! Positive, driven and determined. — Martyn Ford
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde
Positivity And Happiness Quotes
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. — Zig Ziglar
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Optimism And Hope Quotes
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. — Charlotte Whitton
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. — William James
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day. — Rosa Parks
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. — Harry Nilsson
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. — Richard DeVos
Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming. — Daisaku Ikeda
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. — Noam Chomsky
Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future. — Dan Miller
Optimism In Life Quotes
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. — Lucille Ball
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism. — Gilda Radner
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. — Rabindranath Tagore
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar
I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that’s just a reflection about what I’ve been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive. — 21 Savage
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. — George A. Sheehan
Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. — Paul J. Meyer
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. — Christian D. Larson
Hope And Optimism Quotes
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. — William Faulkner
The hope that gritty people have has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with getting up again. — Angela Duckworth
Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies. — Thomas Friedman
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future. — Dorothy Rowe
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. — Jack Layton
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. — David Limbaugh
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. — Jack Layton
I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from. — Deray McKesson
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. — Martin Seligman
Optimistic Life Quotes
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready! — Paula White
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things. — Alice Herz-Sommer
You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. — Michael Beckwith
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. — Walt Disney
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair
There are probably multiple reasons for that. It’s easier to be a pessimist than an optimist. It’s hard to guess how life is going to improve; it’s easier to extrapolate how it’s going to get worse. — Naval Ravikant
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. — Jack Layton
Being An Optimist Quotes
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. — Henry Rollins
To be an entrepreneur, you need to be optimistic about the fact that you’re creating something that other people are going to find value in. — Naval Ravikant
I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work. — Owen Wilson
I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. — Haruki Murakami
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill
It made sense to be pessimistic in the past, but it makes sense to be an optimist today. — Naval Ravikant
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. — Earl Weaver
Optimism Quotes
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness — Saint Augustine
We turn not older with years but newer every day. — Emily Dickinson
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. — Amartya Sen
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. — Leonard Louis Levinson
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. — William Arthur Ward
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. — Louise Brown
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Kahlil Gibran
Being Optimistic Quotes
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. — Conor McGregor
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. — Deepak Chopra
If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it. — Nicholas Winton
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. — David Brooks
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect. — William Carlos Williams
You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future. — Frank Gehry
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. — Voltaire
I look for the good in people. Sometimes I get hurt for it, but it's rare and it's worth it. You may hear me say optimistic things that sound naive. I'm not naive. I've read too much history to be naive. I just think love wins out over the darker parts of human nature in the end. — Lex Fridman
It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted. — Tupac Shakur
Ultimately, what defines the ‘cult of optimism’ and the culture of positive thinking – even in its most mystically tinged, New Age forms – is that it abhors a mystery. It seeks to make things certain, to make happiness permanent and final. And yet this kind of happiness – even if you do manage to achieve it – is shallow and unsatisfying. The greatest benefit of negative capability – the true power of negative thinking – is that it lets the mystery back in. — Oliver Burkeman
Always try to give back that sense of belief and positivity. — Martyn Ford
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. — David Landes
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. — W. Eugene Smith
Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others. — Chetan Bhagat
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. — Robert Breault
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. — Brian Tracy
I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that. — Jim Abbott
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them. — Christian D. Larson
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. — Christian D. Larson
Make your optimism come true. — Christian D. Larson
We live in the best of all possible worlds — Gottfried Leibniz
In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. — Esther Hicks
If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions. — David D. Burns
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling. — Christopher Peterson
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested. — Nelson Mandela
Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area. — Brian Tracy
Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up. — Bobby Knight
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. — Mahatma Gandhi
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. — Michael Jordan
Surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars. — Helen Keller
The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment. — Arthur Cecil Pigou
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good. — Oliver Burkeman
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action. — Norman Vincent Peale
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault
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