Optimism quotes page 1

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary:
impossible.
Robert Schuller

For myself I am an optimist. It does seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better
tomorrow.
Maya Angelou

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Dalai Lama

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffet

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already
quite near its transformation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

If you always fear misfortune, you'll miss out on happiness.
Jewish proverb

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do
anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of
the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to
love.
Marcus Aurelius

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
Norman Vincent Peale

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be
narrow-minded and too prudent.
Vincent van Gogh

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. An adventure is an inconvenience
rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
Bob Marley

In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.
Nick Vujicic

Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can
happen to us.
Richard Bach

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

Resolve says, "I will." The man says, "I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high,
too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see
me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying."
Jim Rohn

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in
the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Denis Waitley

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist
adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who
builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy

Beliefs are very powerful, so you've got to be careful about what you choose to believe,
especially about yourself. I can tell that throughout the years, there are certain beliefs that
have really helped me:

"There's always a way to turn things around if I'm committed."
"There are no failures in life. As long as I learn anything from something, then I've succeeded."
"God's delays are not God's denials."
"The past does not equal the future."
"In any moment, I can change my entire life by making a decision."
Anthony Robbins

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give
up.
Cher

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry,
fret and anxiety.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

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