Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

I've always been the sort of person who likes to look forward and live in the present.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.