Optimism Quotes
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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. (Quote by - Leni Riefenstahl)
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. (Quote by - Alex Tan)
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. (Quote by - Nancy Reagan)
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. (Quote by - Daniel L. Reardon)
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. (Quote by - Abdul Kalam)
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. (Quote by - James Branch Caball)
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Optimism is the opium of the people. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. (Quote by - Edward Steichen)
May you live all the days of your life. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value system. (Quote by - Robert Conroy)
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. (Quote by - Krzysztof Kieslowski)
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. (Quote by - Jim Leach)
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. (Quote by - Mary Lou Retton)
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. (Quote by - Les Brown)
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible! (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? (Quote by - Francis Parker Yockey)
Comedy is acting out optimism. (Quote by - Robin Williams)
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. (Quote by - Jon Snow)
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. (Quote by - Margery Allingham)
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. (Quote by - Natan Sharansky)
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. (Quote by - James Reston)
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. (Quote by - Robert G. Allen)
Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. (Quote by - Paul Fussell)
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
The basis for optimism is sheer terror. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future. (Quote by - Linda Lingle)
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. (Quote by - Barbara W. Winder)
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. (Quote by - Jim Ramstad)
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars. (Quote by - Frederick Langbridge)
Act as if it were impossible to fail. (Quote by - Dorothy Broude)
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. (Quote by - Herbert Croly)
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. (Quote by - Robert Collier)
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. (Quote by - Chauncey Mitchell Depew)
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. (Quote by - Vernor Vinge)
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. (Quote by - Richard M DeVos)
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Quote by - Charled A. Beard)
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. (Quote by - Irv Kupcinet)
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise? (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way. (Quote by - John Hench)
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We turn not older with years but newer every day. (Quote by - Emily Dickenson)
All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. (Quote by - Edward Everett Hale)
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. (Quote by - Harry Nilsson)
Optimist: A man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway. (Quote by - Walter Winchell)
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. (Quote by - Thomas A. Buckner)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. (Quote by - George Santayana)
I thank my darling Camilla, who has stood with me through thick and thin - and whose precious optimism and humour have seen me through. (Quote by - Prince Charles)
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. (Quote by - Louise Brown)
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. (Quote by - Ron Jaworski)
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. (Quote by - David Landes)
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time. (Quote by - John Hench)
I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated. (Quote by - Albert Meltzer)
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. (Quote by - Antonio Gramsci)
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. (Quote by - Robert Hewison)
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
Optimism is the key. (Quote by - Will Champion)
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
My optimism for life carried through my work. (Quote by - John Dyer)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. (Quote by - Henry Rollins)
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. (Quote by - Roberto Rossellini)
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. (Quote by - Leonard Louis Levinson)
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. (Quote by - Raymond Aron)
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation. (Quote by - Earle Brown)
Optimists are nostalgic about the future. (Quote by - Chicago Tribune)
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. (Quote by - Brian May)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. (Quote by - Fred G. Gosman)
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. (Quote by - Bernhard Berenson)
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts. (Quote by - Alice Potter)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. (Quote by - Reginald B. Mansell)
For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact. (Quote by - George Stephanopoulos)
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country. (Quote by - Joan Blades)
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. (Quote by - Howard Mumford Jones)
Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. (Quote by - Walter Winchell)
I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Quote by - Maria Robinson)
Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. (Quote by - Lucimar Santos De Lima)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Optimism is the content of small men in high places. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Pessimism never won any battle. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. (Quote by - Muhammed Ali)
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down. (Quote by - Rudy Giuliani)
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. (Quote by - Harry Stack Sullivan)
The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. (Quote by - Jennifer James)
She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death. (Quote by - Anne Perry)
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. (Quote by - George F. Will)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. (Quote by - William James)
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. (Quote by - Studs Terkel)
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament. (Quote by - Kent Beck)
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. (Quote by - Agnes Repplie)
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift. (Quote by - Karl A. Menninger)
David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today (Quote by - Francis Maude)
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. (Quote by - Charles Eliot)
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Quote by - Susan J. Bissonette)
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. (Quote by - Nicholas M. Butler)
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. (Quote by - Colleen Wilcox)
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. (Quote by - Stephen Ambrose)
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. (Quote by - Patricia Ireland)
The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. (Quote by - Earl Weaver)
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. (Quote by - Epictetus)
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Optimism is the foundation of courage. (Quote by - Nicholas M. Butler)
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
