Optimistic Quotes
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
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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
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
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
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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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernhard Berenson
A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Author Unknown
Optimist: A man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway.
Walter Winchell
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
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