"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
— Immanuel Kant
"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 resp..."
— Noam Chomsky
"The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you'll be in all areas of life."
— Roy T. Bennett
"My optimism and confidence come from visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it."
— Chris Hadfield
"Reason and free imagination are the two wings on which the human spirit rises."
— Unknown aphorism (classical philosophical theme)
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
— Blaise Pascal
"Optimism is the art of seeing the glass as refillable, not just half full or half empty."
— Frank Sonnenberg
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
— Implied in classical thought (commonly echoed)
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
— Lewis Carroll
"In all beginnings dwells a magic force."
— Hermann Hesse
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown
"Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day."
"Be the positive impact on the lives of others."
"We only see things which we want to see in this world. If you want to see magic in the universe, it will appear at every moment in your life."
— Deepanshu Giri
"These are the times that try men's souls."
— Thomas Paine
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
— Aristotle (commonly summarized)
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
— A. A. Milne
"Even though gravity brings us down, we can still put our hands in the air."
— Aegelis
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces."
— Ashley Smith