Richard Branson Quotes

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

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

When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]