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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Sep 17, 2025
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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.
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
When its dark enough you can see the stars.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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.