Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress.Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Make sure that today is better than yesterday.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

If optimism is the highest form of courage — as I am beginning to believe it is — then these students are all heroes.

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.

They’ve been stepping on my toes for years. It’s just a reason to get new boots.

there are two word in my world first love the strongest and second chance quotes.

Life’s true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.

It’s the first time in six or seven years that there’s been this sense of optimism and that’s been reflected in the season ticket sales.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

You’ll feel even worse, of course, but you’ll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does,” I said.

I am an optimist… I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn’t hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

Everyday can be extraordinary, And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

Optimism is found where gratitude abounds.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily–as we shall soon see with Fritz’s own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a...

I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead. Trust me, it is going to be a battle.

With the right Mindset…effective thinking is automatic.

I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Don’t bring me the stars from the sky,I’m planting sunshine in my backyard.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you’re a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.

Do try to remember this: even the world’s not so black as it is painted”-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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...

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

Every day we make the whole world new… Or else grow old.

It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

Happiness isn’t expensive, it just costs your will…

If you’re optimistic, think of it as bronze.

I am no ecological Pollyana. I have borne, and will continue to bear, feelings of wholehearted melancholy over the ecological state of the earth. How could I not? How could anyone not? But I am unwilling to become a hand-wringing nihilist, as some environmental ‘realists’ seem to believe is the more mature posture. Instead, I...

Let it snow, tomorrow is spring! So far, smile…

When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes!

But there’s a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

Don’t let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow’s blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.