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Quotes about Optimism

What can I learn from this challenge? What is it teaching me? Then he would stay positive and trust that the lessons would make him stronger, wiser, and better.
— Jon Gordon
When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don't look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don't focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.
— Jon Gordon
Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.
— Jon Gordon
Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.
— Jon Gordon
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
— Jonah Hill
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
— Epicurus
To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.
— Ben Carson
I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
— Melissa McCarthy
Laughter is a rescue.
— Gloria Steinem
disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
— Graham Greene
If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.
— Graham Greene
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
— William Golding