Optimism Quotes

Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

The day shall not be up so soon as I,To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

Every wall is a door.

Why look in the dark for light?

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

Sitting in an EnglishGarden waiting for the sunIf the sun don't comeYou get a tan from standing in the English rain.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

There is always a better way.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Breathe in the sweet air of limitless possibility, and make life as rich as you know it can be.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Sunshine is my quest.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Oh, I am in love with life!

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.