Optimism Quotes

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,with its hopes and invitations,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

~ Eleventh Doctor

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!

~ Vera Nazarian

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.

~ Martin Keogh

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands” (Richard Bach). And if not every problem, then just about every one. Even spectacular sunsets are not possible without cloudy skies. Troubles bring a gift for those who choose to look. And since I can't avoid my problems, why waste them? I should look for the gift. My life will be far, far richer for finding it.

~ Steve Goodier

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

~ Helen Keller

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

~ Melina Marchetta

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

~ Candace Bushnell

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

~ Criss Jami

Here's another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn't anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me, then you’re the best part.And if you're separate from me, then you are my destination.But I’ve become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

~ Radclyffe Hall

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise

~ Tracy L. Conway

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

~ William Morris

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

~ Kent Allan Rees

The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.

~ Marty Rubin

Stay forever enthusiastic about your desirable dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.

~ Gwenda Bond

After all of this you're still 'Rayhan the Chivalrous', full of hope and optimism?

~ Elizabeth Carlton

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.

~ Germany Kent

I can't look at everything I've already done wrong, only the things I can choose to do right from here on out.

~ J.r. Johansson

Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.

~ Kathleen Glasgow

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

~ Kayla Krantz

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

~ Michelle Obama

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

~ Hellen Keller

Don't be handcuffed by bad habits when you hold the key to unlock the greatness inside of you.

~ Rob Liano

Where there is hope there is life.

~ James Rozoff

With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time.

~ Debasish Mridha

Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.

~ David Wroblewski

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

~ Steve Voake

Head up, heart open. To better days!

~ T.f. Hodge

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Keep your heads up! We are sinking!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

In life, nothing is impossible to achieve when you have enthusiasm, optimism, confidence, and commitment.

~ Debasish Mridha

Wherever you go, be the thunder of joy and the wind of optimism.

~ Debasish Mridha

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

~ Virgil