You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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