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

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.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

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

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

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I think that I’m perfect.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

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

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Belief creates the actual fact.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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

The future will be better tomorrow.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?