I hope you enjoy reading these optimistic quotes as much as I have enjoyed collecting them from around the world.

 

 

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie

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

Success is 99% failure.
Soichiro Honda

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

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

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Nurture your mind with great thoughts;
to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothy Broude

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Robert H. Schuller

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ...
nothing is impossible!
Norman Vincent Peale

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Sunshine follows every storm and breaks the dark of every night.
TotalSelfImprovement.com

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
Oscar Wilde

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernhard Berenson

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Optimist: A man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway.
Walter Winchell

Discover the ultimate supertip. You cannot make a fortune overnight but you can make real money with this genuine opportunity.
Harvey Segal

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