A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
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.
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.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Finish every day and be done with it.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
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