Optimism Quotes And Sayings

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“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
– Unknown

“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
– Unknown

“A pessimist’s blood type is always B-negative.”
– Unknown

“Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back.”
– Unknown

“At times I’m so discouraged with problems of the day, I fail to see THE JOYFUL THINGS that are along the way; When troubles overwhelm me it’s then my nerves may fray, that’s when I need to take the time to simply sit and pray; I must try to remember though problems come my way, not to miss THE JOYFUL THINGS and the beauty of the day.”
– Unknown

“Instead of the usual standard of good and bad, ask how beautiful something is and whether it makes you happy.”
– Unknown

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Unknown

“If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
– Unknown Author

“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you’ve got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not yet a winner.”
– Vince Lombardi

“We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.”
– Vivekananda

“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
– Voltaire, Candide

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
– Walt Disney

“Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.
– Wayne W Dyer

“What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak, there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.”
– Wayne W. Dye

“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Wendell Holmes

“If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”
– William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Optimism is life–Pessimism, slow suicide.”
– William Crosbie Hunter

“The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.”
– William Dewitt Hyde

“Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.”
– William Dewitt Hyde

“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
– William Hazlitt

“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of the venture.”
– William James

“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
– Winston Churchill

“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

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”
– Ziggy

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