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

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

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

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

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 don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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

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

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

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

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

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I think that I’m perfect.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

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

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

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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.

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.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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.

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.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

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

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

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.