#optimism

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#believe #bucket-list #do-it #do-something #faith

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches. ↗

— Hyman G. Rickover

#positive-thinking #success #positive-thinking

I'm not much but I'm all I have. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#optimism #responsibility #time #responsibility

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ↗

— Mildred Barthel

#happiness #optimism #attitude

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#happiness #optimism #trials #faith

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. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#optimism #faith

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#businesses #economy #get #go #going

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well