There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

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