Colonel Sanders Quotes

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

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

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Live constructively and live optimistically.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.

It's always better to be for something than it is against something.

I'm an optimist - very glass half-full.

You have to believe you can win.

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

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

Believe. Believe in yourself. Believe in others. Believe there is positive in everything.

You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.