Pessimism never won any battle.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Aloha is free.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?