Optimism Quotes
Optimism quotes tend to focus on the positive. When you consider we all create our lives with our thoughts, why would anyone want to be a pessimist? It makes no sense. Negative thoughts attract negative effects. Positive thoughts generate positive results.
Read more...I’m sure that knowing motivated Winston Churchill to declare, “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” Think of negative thoughts as ‘weeds’ and positive thoughts as ‘seeds’ and begin cultivating the garden of your life. Pull out the ‘weeds’ as they pop up (old habits sometimes die hard). Nurture your positive thought seeds. In time you will enjoy the fruits of your efforts – I positively guarantee it!
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We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
Shawn Achor
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
Amma
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G.K. Chesterton
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. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.
Norm Chomsky
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.
John M. Eades
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Use the word perhaps to change your negative beliefs to possibilities that invite action and, ultimately, to positive beliefs and probabilities.
Anita Foley
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong…Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
I promise myself…to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind; to talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet; to make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them; to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true; to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best; to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own; to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future; to wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet; to give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others; to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble; to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds; to live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me.
Christian D. Larson
As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.
Robert Maurer
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal
For every negative imagining (worry thought), practice positive pretending (imagining the most wonderful outcome).
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success, instead of eluding him, flows toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
It’s such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
Gilda Radner
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky.
Dr. Seuss
I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone
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.
Rabindranath Tagore
There is a positive you and there is a negative you. When you begin to realize which you is responsible for specific actions that you take, you can finally eliminate the negative and build upon the positive.
Michelle C. Ustaszeski
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughn
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
William Arthur Ward
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
Oprah Winfrey
A pessimist is a person who is seasick during the entire voyage of life.
Zig Ziglar
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 or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Zig Ziglar
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