This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible . . . what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!
What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?
The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, "I'm all right so far"?
The biggest quality in successful people, I think, is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was, even if it's as bad as I think it is, we'll make it work.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
