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Hope And Optimism Quotes About Overcoming Adversity

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Power Of Positive Thinking

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Hope And Optimism Quotes About Finding Strength In Difficult Times

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

Hope And Optimism Quotes About Never Giving Up

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Beauty Of Life

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Importance Of Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
Albert Einstein

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Resilience Of The Human Spirit

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott

The human spirit is one of ability, perseverance, and courage that no disability can steal away.
Unknown

The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
Yakuta J.

The human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
Bernard Beckett

The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The human spirit is the most resilient thing in the world.
Unknown

The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein

The human spirit is the strongest force in the universe, and when it is focused, there is nothing it cannot do.
Unknown

The human spirit is the foundation of all our success and all our failures.
Unknown

The human spirit is the only thing in the world that can overcome adversity.
Unknown

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Potential For Change

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Value Of Optimism

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

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Seth Godin

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is a choice. Not a gift. Not an inheritance. It is a choice that we make every day.
Simon Sinek

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy

Optimism is the belief that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Anonymous

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Courage To Dream Big

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
Barack Obama

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Joy Of Living In The Moment

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Storm Jameson

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis

The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul II

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
John H. Schaar

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Power Of Hope

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen King

Hope is the belief in a better tomorrow.
Anonymous

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Anonymous

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton

Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded away.
Anonymous

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Importance Of Faith

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
C.S. Lewis

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
Duane Chapman

Faith is the key to optimism. It is the conviction of things not seen, the assurance of a better tomorrow.
Unknown

Faith is the foundation of hope. Without faith, there is no hope. Without hope, there is no reason to live.
Unknown

Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.
Unknown

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. It is the trust that everything will work out in the end, even when things seem bleak.
Unknown

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Beauty Of Nature

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet

The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
Natalie Angier

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats

Hope And Optimism Quotes About The Limitless Potential Of The Future

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
Bill Clinton

The future is not about waiting for something, it's about creating something.
Unknown

The future is always bright, no matter how dark things seem today.
Unknown

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
Unknown

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