Optimism Quotes

Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge?Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration.

~ Angelica Hopes

It’s going to be a pretty day to fly.

~ Jennifer Echols

Duck wasn't sure if it was optimism or fantasy, but hope had been such uncharted waters for him recently that he was having difficulty navigating them.

~ Elmer Seward

We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is shining, and yet, is not the sun always shining just behind the clouds that never last?

~ Grace May North

I like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that just as the prophecy of the destruction of the temple was fulfilled, so the prophecy of the rebuilding would also be fulfilled. I like that.

~ Chaim Potok

The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.You were alone, you always will be.But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life's so good.

~ Sanhita Baruah

New Orleans, the storm, Perry, the river: they all reminded me not to take anything for granted. It all washes away, and we are all washed away with it. So when then ground is steady and the sky is clear, we should breathe deep until our lungs inflate against our ribs and hold in that one breath until we are lightheaded with the privilege of being human. The absolute privilege of being human.

~ Jacob Tomsky

Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

~ Pearl Cleage

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

~ Rachel Kushner

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities, it's a lack of perspective.

~ Tim Fargo

But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's like a form of insanity. - Peter MorrowYou call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow

~ Louise Penny

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

~ John Fante

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism

~ Dean Cavanagh

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

~ Megan Mckenna

I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong

~ Sanhita Baruah

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective

~ Tim Tebow

Optimism is a deadly vice of gigantic proportions lodged into the human psyche by Satan. It is the enemy of reality. We see a bad situation and optimism prevents us from extrapolating that. Instead we think, Oh, it's bound to get better. So we plunge into the thicket, sure that it will thin, denied the aerial view that would show us the true, unacceptable horror of our lot. Perhaps optimism is good for prison escapees, who have no choice but to plod on. The rest of us are not well served. It poisons our judgment.

~ Tom Levine

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

~ Marie Abanga

Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch in stitches.

~ Angelica Hopes

She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

~ Guy Vanderhaeghe

Sure, I had been accused of murder by my family and was wrapped up in a bizarre investigation, but there were such cute boys involved. Hey, I try to look on the bright side.

~ Tamara Summers

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

~ Junot Díaz

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

~ Tom Clancy

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

~ Criss Jami

You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster and so if you practice optimism it may increase your feelings of vulnerability. The trick is to increase your tolerance for vulnerable feelings, rather than avoid them altogether.[…]Optimism does not mean continual happiness, glazed eyes and a fixed grin. When I talk about the desirability of optimism I do not mean that we should delude ourselves about reality. But practicing optimism does mean focusing more on the positive fall-out of an event than on the negative. … I am not advocating the kind of optimism that means you blow all your savings on a horse running at a hundred to one; I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

~ Philippa Perry

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

~ Mark Miller

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

~ Vivian Greene

REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.

~ Tony Dovale

Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most

~ Tony Dovale

With the right Mindset...effective thinking is automatic.

~ Tony Dovale

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

~ Nicholas Proffitt

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

~ Michael J. Fox

The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of collective human emotion.

~ Coreen T. Sol

There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so definite that they leave absolutely no room for hope. Instead, I suggest we use the phrase, “How can I?

~ Daniel Willey

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

~ Henry Kissinger

Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last -- far off -- at last, to all,And every winter change to spring.

~ Alfred Tennyson

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

~ Seth Godin

I can help you.” He finalised.“How?” Both Jezka and Faze asked.“I don’t know but it's nice to sound optimistic, wouldn’t you agree.

~ Keisha Keenleyside