Quotes about Optimism

Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, "Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can!

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.

So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.

Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

Change your thoughts and change your world.

Positive thinking is looking at events with the knowledge that there will be both good and bad in life, but that it is better to emphasize the good. And as you do that, good seems to increase.

I don't believe in defeat'.