Quotes about Optimism

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

Fear is a poor chisel with which to carve out tomorrow.

Fear no longer has a place in my life. For too long, fear has outweighed my desire to make things better for my family. Never again! I have exposed fear as a vapor, an impostor that never had any power over me in the first place! I do not fear opinion, gossip, or the idle chatter of monkeys, for all are the same to me. I do not fear failure, for in my life, failure is a myth. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

THE FIFTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS: Today I will choose to be happy.

I have faith in my future. I do not look left or right. I look forward. I can only persist.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

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.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.