optimistic quotes about life 

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn

“The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky

“Belief creates the actual fact.” ~ William James

“Spread love everywhere you go.” ~ Mother Teresa

“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” ~ W. Clement Stone

“Forget about style; worry about results.” ~ Bobby Orr

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~ Aristotle

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” ~ Mark Twain

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”

–Bo Bennett

“He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.”

–Plato

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ~ Lao Tzu

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” ~ Tony Robbins

“Energy and initiative count as much as talent and luck.” ~ Will Peters

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

–Vince Lombardi

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

–Epicurus

“Optimism does not cost money or effort, but it has the potential of improving your life.”

–Remez Sasson

“What is difficult now, would be easy and rewarding with a positive frame of mind.”

–Remez Sasson

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” ~ Nick Maley

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

–Joyce Meyer

“Do not keep thinking on how your life is now. Focus on how you want your life to be.”

–Remez Sasson

“To find optimism, look for the good things in life.”

–Catherine Pulsifer

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”

–Richard Bach

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

–George Bernard Shaw

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

–Kahlil Gibran

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

–Mary Lou Retton

“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”

–Norman Cousins