If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.
No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. With a thing called hope, And I can't get it out of my heart. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action.