Optimist Creed

Optimist Creed

by Christian D. Larson, 1912

PROMISE YOURSELF

• To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.


• To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person
  you meet.


• To make all your friends feel that there is something in
  them.


• To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism
  
  come true.


• To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and
  to expect only the best.


• To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as
  you are about your own.


• To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
  
  achievements of the future.


• To wear a cheerful countenance at all timed and give every
  living creature you meet a smile.


• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that
  you have no time to criticize others.


• To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong
  for rear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.


• To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the
  world, not in loud words but in great deeds.


• To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side
  so long as you are true to the best that is in you.