Quotes about Optimism
The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
- Thomas Edison
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
- Thomas Edison
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
- Thomas Monson
love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.
- Thomas Watson
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
- Dick Cheney
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
- Norman Vincent Peale