A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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.
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.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
We live in the best of all possible worlds
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.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
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