Optimism Quotes

Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.

~ Mie Hansson

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

~ Roy Bennett

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

~ Roy Bennett

The sun will set and the sun will rise, and it will shine upon us tomorrow in our grief and our gratitude, and we will continue to live with purpose, memory, passion, and love.

~ Brent Schlender

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

~ Voltaire

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

~ Dan Harris

Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

~ Benny Bellamacina

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

~ Stephen L. Carter

I was young enough to be an optimist.

~ Mike Mussina

Cynicism is a disease. Optimism is the cure.

~ Aakashvani

God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You gotta be optimistic to be single. Stupid! You have to be stupid. That's what optimistic means, you know. It means stupid. An optimist is somebody that goes, 'Hey, maybe something nice will happen!' Why the fuck would anything nice ever happen? What are you, stupid?

~ Louis C. K.

Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.

~ Auliq Ice

You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.

~ Jones Kofi Apawu

It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

~ Jennifer Senior

Eventually, I headed to the bathroom, and I mention this only because I saw in that bathroom the most quintessentially American artifact I have ever encountered: a bright blue rubber mat resting in the bottom of the urinal emblazoned with the following legend:EpplyWorld's Cleanest AirportOmaha, NEGod bless our relentless idiotic optimism.

~ Steve Almond

One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with false consolation. You may call the first one pessimistic and the second one optimistic. Both are equally dangerous.

~ Walpola Rahula

Rise from those dumps of depression!Bury those personal regrets deep inside! Focus on self-healing, self-loveOnly trust can keep you alive.Miniscule moments of hope awning aroundFloating like bubbles but burst without a soundDuress of living with mixed thoughtsFlying on the wings of optimism I thrive!

~ Balroop Singh

We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.

~ Ruth Dugdall

optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

~ Helen Keller

I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

~ Michael J. Fox

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

~ Christina Greer

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

~ Dean Koontz

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

~ R. N. Prasher

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

~ Philip Pullman

You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.

~ Ricky Mathieson

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

~ Eric Greitens

The foot feels the foot when it's touched by the ground, like the heart feels the heart when it's no longer bound.

~ Ricky Mathieson

You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

~ Ricky Mathieson

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

~ Greg Forster

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

~ Janet Turpin Myers

Don't bring me the stars from the sky,I'm planting sunshine in my backyard.

~ Sanhita Baruah