(573 quotes found)
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.”
Bo Bennett
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Mark Twain
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
Zig Ziglar
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
Tom Krause
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde
“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
Robert Brault
