It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Pessimism never won any battle.
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
No matter what level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.