Optimism Quotes

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Life I love you, all is groovy.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

There is always something left to love.

Live in the sunshine.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

The trick is to never lose hope!

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

Fire the doubters out of your life.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Surround yourself with optimistic people.

Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

There is possibility in every difficulty.

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

I am basically optimistic.

I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond to my original idea,--that they correspond to nothing else so much; and thus a man may really be a true prophet without any great exertion. The day is never so dark, nor the night even, but that the laws at least of light still prevail, and so may make it light in our minds if they are open to the truth.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

That's life (that's life), that's what all the people sayYou're ridin' high in April, shot down in MayBut I know I'm gonna change that tuneWhen I'm back on top, back on top in June

At the darkest moment comes the light.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

Tomorrow comes after the dark

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent