The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
I don't believe in pessimism.
If any has a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.
Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.
You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Your imagination has much to do with your life. ... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.
We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach.
