Alif Jayadi > Alif's Quotes

“There’s a Chinese proverb that says “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you” Your mind is like a Ferrari (Or your favorite car) it is Awesome!...but if you put sand on the gas tank it won’t run. Don’t put sand (negativity) on your mind. Think positive, encouraging, uplifting thoughts, & the negative will soon evaporate.”
― Pablo

“I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Dan beranikanlah dirimu membuktikan kebenaran yang kau benci!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate.”
― Zack W. Van

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
― Thomas Friedman

“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
― Hugh Downs

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”
― Mark Twain

“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
― Voltaire

“A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
― Eoin Colfer, Airman

“Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.”
― Steve Voake, The Dreamwalker's Child

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
― Roger Crawford

“Pessimism never won any battle.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.”
― Hyman G. Rickover