Optimism Quotes

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

~ Madeleine L'engle

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

~ Kerstin Gier

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

~ Matthew Crow

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Why, it would be such fun,' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.

~ Eleanor H. Porter

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...

~ Mehek Bassi

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

~ Anne Sullivan Macy

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

~ Geoff Dyer

No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command, victory is scarcely obtainable.” Eisenhower realized that “optimism and pessimism are infectious and they spread more rapidly from the head downward than in any other direction.” He learned that a commander’s optimism “has a most extraordinary effect upon all with whom he comes in contact. With this clear realization, I firmly determined that my mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory—that any pessimism and discouragement I might ever feel would be reserved for my pillow.

~ Stephen E. Ambrose

Make sure that today is better than yesterday.

~ Tomás Mier

Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones

~ Eleanor H. Porter

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Then I realize that words like optimism and hope which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.

~ Paulo Coelho

They cannot indulge in any detailed or merely logical defense of life; that would delay the enjoyment of it. These higher optimists, of whom Dickens was one, do not approve of the universe; they do not even admire the universe; they fall in love with it. They embrace life too close to criticize or even to see it. Existence to such men has the wild beauty of a woman, and those love her with most intensity who love her with least cause.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

~ Susan Lendroth

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other but what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred for the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity's to the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon someone who never lived at all.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.

~ Amen Muffler

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

~ Audre Lorde

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

~ Albert Schweitzer

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

~ Oscar Wilde

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

~ Don Marquis

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

~ Damien Echols

I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and this fact has a curious effect on my argument. In a strange way it makes my argument an optimistic one. Although things are now not the way they should be—there are people when there should be none—things will someday be the way they should be—there will be no people. In other words, although things are now bad, they will be better, even if they first get worse with the creation of new people. Some may wish to be spared this kind of optimism, but some optimists may take a measure of comfort in this observation.

~ David Benatar

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

~ Munia Khan

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

~ Roberto Rossellini

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

~ Donald Miller

.theres much more important things..

~ Kovo

Sometimes just the affirmation that a situation sucks can turn a mood around and inspire strength and optimism.

~ Melissa Hart

Obstacles without optimism can overturn opportunities for growth, hope and success.

~ Kym Gordon Moore

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

~ Scott Farris

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

~ Jim Butcher

You know, if you're hopeful, if you're even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn't affect the outcome. You could still give yourself a period of optimism, even if it all falls apart.

~ Michael Cunningham

If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved. In other words, we don’t just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about.

~ Chinua Achebe

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

~ German Proverb

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that, it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

~ Tanith Lee

Communists are the last optimists.

~ Nadine Gordimer

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

~ Marcel Proust

Hope docks in my heart

~ Angelica Hopes