Top 100 Optimism Is Quotes
#1. I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.
Danny Wallace
#3. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
#4. If optimism is the highest form of courage
as I am beginning to believe it is
then these students are all heroes.
Paula Huntley
#5. It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here"
that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
John Wyndham
#6. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.
Helen Keller
#8. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
#12. Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
Leonid Andreyev
#13. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#14. Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
Martin Seligman
#15. Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#17. So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
Rodolfo Costa
#19. It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me; perhaps it is because I am always ready to meet an agreeable situation a little more than halfway.
A. Edward Newton
#20. Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.
Richie Sambora
#21. An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
Heinz Ruhmann
#22. Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
Larry Page
#23. For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
Ron Suskind
#24. Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction ... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.
Lauren Mackler
#25. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
#27. Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
#28. To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
Eleanor Perenyi
#29. Rational optimism is required of anyone who hopes to be a survivor,
Dean Koontz
#30. I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
Michael Stipe
#31. Don't ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have life, be alive and smile!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.
Greg Forster
#33. Spam is a waste of the receivers' time, and, a waste of the sender's optimism.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#34. It is soon to be spring
The Christmas toys barely played with
I have a glass soldier whose head can turn
The epaulettes interchangeable
Soon flowers will bloom
Lawrence from the garden shed will give us
each a cup of seeds
I am to wait
I said
George Saunders
#35. When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even
Al Gore
#36. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
Victor Cherbuliez
#37. Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.
Pearl Cleage
#38. The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.
John F. Kerry
#39. Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
Gregory David Roberts
#40. If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
Rudy Giuliani
#43. Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.
Tim Brown
#44. For success, optimism is more important than opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Louise Brown
#46. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.
G.K. Chesterton
#47. Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
Simon Sinek
#48. I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.
David Warlick
#49. War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.
Erri De Luca
#50. The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism.
Debasish Mridha
#51. There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
Salman Rushdie
#52. In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
Abel Aganbegyan
#53. Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.
William Arthur Ward
#54. The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.
Edward Albee
#55. Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
Martin Seligman
#56. The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
Alison Croggon
#57. We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
Ernie Banks
#59. What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.
Madeleine Albright
#60. I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
Carlos Fuentes
#61. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
#62. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who am I against the night?
Ana Novac
#65. 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
#66. The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
Peter Thiel
#67. If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.
Stuart Wilde
#69. I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#70. Optimism ... is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
Charlie Pierce
#71. If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions.
David D. Burns
#72. When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
Daniel Kahneman
#73. Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.
Jennifer Senior
#74. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
#75. Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward
Benny Bellamacina
#76. It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
David Souter
#77. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
Mark Twain
#78. Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.
Jonathan Heatt
#79. Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.
Richard Matheson
#80. Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Bruce Lee
#81. One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
Daniel Kahneman
#82. It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.
Jim Gaffigan
#83. A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you "make" out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But every now and again he got attacks of acute optimism.
Thomas Pynchon
#84. What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.
Voltaire
#85. It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown
#86. Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
#87. I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
#88. Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.
Jonathan Kellerman
#89. Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.
Shalom Auslander
#90. The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.
Simon Sinek
#91. I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.
Natsuo Kirino
#93. I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.
William Kentridge
#94. Some say the glass is half full and blush,
Some say it's half empty and sink,
I feel you are in the midst of,
reaching out for another awesome drink!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#96. What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
Tony Judt
#97. Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today
Francis Maude
#99. Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality
Oliver Pell
#100. Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.
Ezra Taft Benson
