Optimist Quotes

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

~ Jenny Han

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists.I find that hard to believeOf course you do, you're an optimist. You have a misguided belief that things will go your way. You don't see the dangers till it's too late. Pessimists are more realistic. That seems like a sad way to govern your life.It's a safe way to govern your life.

~ Susin Nielsen

We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

~ C. Joybell C.

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

~ Oscar Wilde

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

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

~ Harvey Mackay

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

~ Bill Cosby

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.

~ Shelby D. Hunt

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

~ Dr. Seuss

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

~ Debasish Mridha

There's no point in knowing without enlightenment, yet edified insights arouse movement.

~ Jt Sanz

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

~ Anthony Liccione

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

~ Debasish Mridha

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.

~ Adam P. Knave

The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

~ Christian D. Larson

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

~ Christian D. Larson

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

~ Ruth Reichl

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

~ Don Marquis

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

~ Betty White

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

~ Harold Wilson

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

~ George Jean Nathan

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

~ Julius Genachowski