Norman Cousins Quotes

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

One thing in this game is you've gotta stay positive.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Failure never goes to my heart, and success never goes to my head.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

People can say what they want about me. But I've got a big heart and will keep going.

Of course I am an optimist. You can't do what I do without being optimistic.

Sometimes the mere assumption that you have the right to go, will get you there!

I believe in my abilities as a fighter.

I'm very determined, and I know I can achieve, so I don't let little setbacks put me down.

I just try to show no fear when I go on the field every time.