A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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