The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability to overcome bad luck.
Kahlil Gibran
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Norman Vincent Peale
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
William Arthur Ward
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Thomas Paine
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Pearl Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Carl Jung
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
