“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.” — Rodolfo Costa Copy Share Image
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be strong. Things will get better. It might be stormy now but rain does not last forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
Optimism leads to investment, and anything that our government can do to reinforce optimism in our economy is good. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim Copy Share Image
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I have the strength to overcome the impossible. I have courage to stand for what I believe in. I have faith that… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Reconnect to what makes you happy and brings you Joy. If there is something that used to make you happy which you… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Things will get better. Maybe not tomorrow, or even the tomorrow after that, but know that it will happen. Your tomorrow will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of every darkness, out of every bleak cloud, there will be a ray of sunshine, that is if your willing to… — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes… — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still… — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
If you prepare for the worst but hope for the best, you will rarely be disappointed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know what tomorrow might bring, but I'm still hoping no matter what it is, it's gonna be better than today. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
When you get up in the morning, arm yourself with determination that today I will make magic happen. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Glorious creation, so easy to destroy, yet the palette of possibility somehow prevails.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Faith, hope, and patience are the key to things getting better. Just give it another day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership. — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
“Success in life is useless is you don't have a balance of happiness, peace, hope, and optimism.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
