Success...Positive
Factors...OPTIMISM
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“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.” — Daniel L. Reardon
OPTIMISM, Pessimism, Happiness
0116 CA
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
OPTIMISM, Sadness, Adversity
0117
“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
OPTIMISM, Pessimism, Perseverance, Self-Confidence, Potential
0118
“Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.”
— Norman Cousins
OPTIMISM, Change, Pessimism, Faith
0119
“The earnest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.”
— Leszczynski Stanislaus
OPTIMISM, Attitude, Potential
0120 A
“Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as
perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.” — Andrew Bonar Law
OPTIMISM, Happiness
0121
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.”
— Charles Buxton
OPTIMISM, Failure
0122
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.” — Benjamin Disraeli
OPTIMISM, Genius
0123
“Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
OPTIMISM, Fame
0124
“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
OPTIMISM, Faith, Happiness, Age
0125 A
“Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.
Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
— Stanley Baldwin
OPTIMISM, Motivation, Leadership
0126
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.” — Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
OPTIMISM, Honesty
0127
“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
— Anatole France
OPTIMISM, Wisdom, Errors, Procrastination
0128 C
“The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” — Blaise Pascal
OPTIMISM, Perception, Chance, Excellence
0129
"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.” — Jean de la Fontaine
OPTIMISM, Motivation, Self-Confidence, Attitude, Adversity, Leadership
0130
“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”
— Charles Schwab
OPTIMISM, Motivation, Attitude
0131
“When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.” — Confucius
OPTIMISM, Reward
0132
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” — Kahlil Gibran
OPTIMISM, Happiness, Love, Pessimism, Sadness
OPTIMISM Cross-References
Wealth—44-45 • Motivation—88 •
Perseverance—141, 154, 156 • Planning—166 • Self-Confidence—205 •
Pessimism—274 • Adversity—287, 293, 297-299 • Doubt—344 •
Attitude—403, 405-407, 410-411 • Potential—479, 487, 501 •
Knowledge—528 • Perception—616 • Thought—627 •
Decision-Making—687 • Charity—800 • Envy—901 •
Ego—915 • Faith—999-1000, 1004-1005 • Leadership—1132-1133 •
Competition—1177 • Government—1261
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