Optimistic Outlook Quotes

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

Don't Worry, Be Hapi.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!

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.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called 'the beloved community.'

I'm an optimist by nature.

My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's the way he approached his life. The way he approached his life - he was the eternal optimist. He was the most optimistic person that I've ever known. Even in the face of this diagnosis with cancer, he was filled with optimism about what he could do and what he could accomplish.

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.

It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.