This page is a collection of optimism quotes. "Circumstances don't matter, only state of being matters- what state of being are you choosing?" This is a statement by Bashar which points out the power we have in how we experience life. This life is yours and it emanates from within. You choose your perspective which creates your perception. In other words how we look at something creates what we see. Choose to be optimistic, and you will see your life transform in front of your eyes. Choose to see the glass not as half empty or half full, but completely full, because it is- half with water and half with air. Enjoy this page of optimism quotes.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. -Kahlil Gibran
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. -Helen Keller
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. -Lucille Ball
My sun sets to rise again. -Robert Browning
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. -Edgar Allan Poe
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. -Hal Borland
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. -James Russell Lowell
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. -Robert Collier
We turn not older with years but newer every day. -Emily Dickenson
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. -Orison Swett Marden
Act as if it were impossible to fail. -Dorothy Broude
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -Charlotte Bronte
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible! -Norman Vincent Peale
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. -Rabindranath Tagore
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. -Les Brown
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. -Bernhard Berenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Pessimism never won any battle. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got. -Theodore Roosevelt
All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. -Pearl S. Buck
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser- in case you thought optimism was dead. -Robert Brault
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. -Anne Frank
Optimism is the foundation of courage. -Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. -Brian Tracy
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. -Oscar Wilde
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. -John F. Kennedy
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -Nicholas Murray Butler
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. -Epictetus
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. -Helen Keller
