Optimism Quotes

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Mary Lou Retton

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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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

Inspirational, Life, Positive

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Inspirational, Positive, Trust

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S. Truman

Change, Attitude, Optimistic

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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Brian Tracy

Inspirational, Positive, New Year

Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Robert Breault

Reality, Clay, Realist

"Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Oscar Wilde

Opportunity, Complaining, Noise

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Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Helen Keller

Cheer, Giving Up, Failure

Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Norman Vincent Peale

Inspirational, Strong, Mistake

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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Robert Foster Bennett

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Nelson Mandela

Courage, Peace, Moving

"Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Motivational, Views

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Jonas Salk

Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking

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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

Believe, Self, Expectations

Christopher Peterson (2006). “A Primer in Positive Psychology”, p.128, Oxford University Press

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

Single, Attitude, Past

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Laozi

Success, Weed, Dream

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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