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Optimism Quotes
“Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables
a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.”
Author Unknown
“The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth
more than a thousand pounds a year.”
Samuel Johnson
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller
"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
"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come."
Chinese Proverb
“To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.”
Edward Everett Hale
"I discovered I always have choices
and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."
Judith M. Knowlton
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Colin Powell
"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
Elbert Hubbard
"Look at the sunny side of everything."
Christian D. Larsen,
"Two men look out through the same bars;
One sees the mud, and one the stars.”
Frederick Langbridge
"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be."
Harvey Mackay
"There is 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
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
Helen Keller
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome."
William James
"Optimism makes a life happier and meaningful."
Quotes on Life by M.K. Soni
"I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts."
Alice Potter
"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
Muhammed Ali
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
Colleen Wilcox
"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."
Benjamin Franklin
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; they pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose."
Kahlil Gibran
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
Helen Keller |
