Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. (Quote by - Mary Lou Retton)

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. (Quote by - Les Brown)

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible! (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you do t do too many things wrong. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? (Quote by - Francis Parker Yockey)

Comedy is acting out optimism. (Quote by - Robin Williams)

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. (Quote by - Jon Snow)

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. (Quote by - Margery Allingham)

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. (Quote by - Natan Sharansky)

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. (Quote by - James Reston)

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. (Quote by - Robert G. Allen)

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. (Quote by - Paul Fussell)

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)

The basis for optimism is sheer terror. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future. (Quote by - Linda Lingle)

Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. (Quote by - Barbara W. Winder)

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. (Quote by - Jim Ramstad)

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. (Quote by - Frederick Langbridge)

Act as if it were impossible to fail. (Quote by - Dorothy Broude)

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)