Quotes about Optimism

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

A candle is at its brightest in the dark.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive one to cancel it out.

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.