Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
One big lesson: Always look forward. Once a game or a set is done, you focus on what's next.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Being optimistic or pessimistic isn’t helpful in any way. If you’re optimistic, you think everything is going to be fine and end up doing little to change things. If you’re pessimistic, you feel nothing you do is going to make a difference. Either way, you end up doing nothing. I’m not optimistic or pessimistic. I simply have to fight for good.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Don't be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. 'Accentuate the positive.' Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.
I'm an optimist...If you dwell on the negative, it will hurt you, depress you, and even destroy you. If you work on the positive and dwell on it and seek to bring it to pass, it will make you lighter and brighter, younger and even more vigorous. That's my feeling, and that's my program.
The past is like a rear view mirror, you can glance at it, but you'll crash if you stare at it. A little regret can be motivating; too much can be debilitating. Be wise when you look to your past; keep it healthy. What is in front of you matters more than what is behind you.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
In the days and years ahead, you may suffer some discouragement and disappointment. On occasion you may feel genuine despair, either for yourself or your children or the plight and conditions of others. You may even make a personal mistake or two — serious mistakes, perhaps, though I hope not — and you may worry that any chance to be happy and secure in life has eluded you forever. When such times come, I ask you to remember this: This is the church of the happy endings.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future
Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do. [...] It is a time, in short, for a new generation of leadership — new men to cope with new problems and new opportunities.
My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
Personally I am not disheartened. I am concerned, but I do not live in terror. It has been said that the late President J. Golden Kimball once attended a stake conference session in which the speaker who preceded him occupied nearly all the time with a scorching call to repentance and that when Brother J. Golden followed him, he simply said, “Well, brothers and sisters, I suppose the best thing for all of us to do is to go home and commit suicide.”
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
To an indefinite optimist, the future will be better, but he doesn't know how exactly, so he won't make any specific plans. He expects to profit from the future but sees no reason to design it concretely.
To a definite optimist, the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better.
We live in the most vibrant era in the history of the world. I wake up every morning eager for the adventures of the day. And I hope you feel that same exuberance for the gift of life.
Though our world is filled with serious challenges, I am optimistic about the future, and feel confident about the fundamental goodness of human kind.
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
My 5-year-old grandson was jumping all over the furniture. His mother told him to stop or he might knock all of his teeth out. He replied: "Can I put them all under my pillow?"
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down on these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past…
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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