Optimism Quotes

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

~ James A. Owen

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

~ Sarah Kay

We are gods in the chrysalis.

~ Dale Carnegie

That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can forget. I don't guess it's a thing you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad.

~ Fred Gipson

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

~ Susan Cooper

Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus, there is no virtue like necessity.

~ William Shakespeare

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

~ Victor Hugo

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

~ James Branch Cabell

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

~ Helen Keller

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

~ Oscar Wilde

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

~ Stephen King

Things are always better in the morning.

~ Harper Lee

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

~ Roberto Bolaño

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much, if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

~ Mark Twain

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

~ Voltaire

But hey, what's life without a little adversity?That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Joy, not sorrow.Laughter, not tears.Life, not death.Love, not blame.

~ Lisa Schroeder

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

~ Voltaire

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

~ Tamar Myers

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

~ Rick Steves

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

~ C.s. Lewis

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

~ Stephen Colbert

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that it can't happen here -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

~ John Wyndham

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

~ Alain De Botton

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

~ Idries Shah

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

~ Gennifer Choldenko

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

~ Dorothy Parker

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

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

~ Robert Jordan

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

~ Colin Powell

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

~ Jim Butcher

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

~ Danny Wallace

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

~ Orson F. Whitney