"A stumbling block to the pessimist is..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
“Be confident, not certain”
“In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.”
More on Perspective
“For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?”
“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”
“Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.”