Optimism Quotes

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,Strong and content I travel the open road.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to them—who have the organ of hope preposterously developed—who are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperament—who never feel concerned about the price of corn—and who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a picture—are very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

America's best days are yet to come.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

The sun shines today also.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment,and focus on the positive possibilities.Consider how very much you are able to do.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

The Universe is a friendly place.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)