Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I think that I’m perfect.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.