Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

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

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

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

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

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.

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.

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.

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

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.