Optimism Quotes - Page 19

Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.

Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

Self-acceptance is the basis of a happy life.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

If you are ever feeling lost or unsure of what to do, you can simply retrace the path that brought you there to begin with. Have you ever misplaced something only to find it in short order when you “retraced your steps?” Whether it is an idea, a conversation, or an object, retracing may help you get back on point to re-fortify your position.

Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge.

Up ahead stands the fun house, which you enter through a clown’s smiling mouth.“I would kill myself if I was prisoner here,” Shelby says.“No, you wouldn’t, just out of courtesy,” I say, “because your body would be trapped in there after you die, and your friends would have to watch your corpse rot.”“Hmm,” Shelby says. “Smell it too.”“Well, now we’re looking on the bright side,” Packard says.

Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.

Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.

Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

A word about my personal philosophy. It is anchored in optimism. It must be, for optimism brings with it hope, a future with a purpose, and therefore, a will to fight for a better world. Without this optimism, there is no reason to carry on. If we think of the struggle as aclimb up a mountain, then we must visualize a mountain with no top. We see a top, but when we finall yreach it, the overcast rises and we find ourselves merely on a bluff. The mountain continues on up. Now we see the "real" top ahead of us, and strive for it, only to find we've reached another bluff, the top still above us. And so it goes on, interminably.Knowing that the mountain has no top, that it is a perpetual quest from plateau to plateau, the question arises, "Why the struggle, the conflict, the heartbreak, the danger, the sacrifice. Why the constant climb?" Our answer is the same as that which a real mountain climber gives when he is asked why he does what he does. "Because it's there." Because life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known. Paradocically, they give up the dream of what may lie ahead on the heighs of tomorrow for a perpetual nightmare - an endless succession of days fearing the loss of a tenuous security.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his way along, and it seemed hours before he got them into the shelter of the Hundred Acre Wood and they stood up straight again, to listen, a little nervously, to the roaring of the gale among the treetops.'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?''Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.

We all need to believe in something, a dream that gives us optimism and faith.

Be the positive impact on the lives of others.

Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.

He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his fragmented heart.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view.

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

We make the world most possible by helping the people we encounter be their most possible.

We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.

I am enjoying my life because things aren't going the way I planned.

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Grateful people are happy people. The more things you are grateful for, the happier you will be.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

In the pursuit of trying to be all things to all people or trying to live up to another person’s expectations, do you find yourself saying ‘Yes’ when you wish you’d said ‘No?’ When something is not in your best interest or goes against your values, learn to refuse and graciously reply, “No.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

When we worry about someone we send them a secret message – I don’t believe in you. When we worry about our life, we send ourselves a secret message – I don’t believe in me.

The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.

Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible.