Top 94 Optimism Optimistic Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
John Podhoretz
#5. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
Kristin Hunter
#6. Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#7. We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.
Carol Deppe
#8. On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
Kevin Rudd
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Optimism ... is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
Charlie Pierce
#14. We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there's always another bottom underneath the one we're laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there's always endless opportunity above us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. I can help you." He finalised.
"How?" Both Jezka and Faze asked.
"I don't know but it's nice to sound optimistic, wouldn't you agree.
Keisha Keenleyside
#17. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.
Roy Bennett
#18. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
#19. I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.
Jim Abbott
#20. Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
Roy Bennett
#21. Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.
Yoko Ono
#22. Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
Brandon Sanderson
#23. Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#24. Cats are good at keeping clean [ ... ] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really bad. So today we're going to do things the pig way, okay?
Chris Kurtz
#25. Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy Bennett
#27. Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.
Roy T. Bennett
#29. I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
Jon Anderson
#30. I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.
Heather Anastasiu
#31. I was born optimistic ... I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#32. I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#33. Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
Richie Norton
#34. Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.
Daniel Kahneman
#35. Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.
Wes Fesler
#36. My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton
#37. The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.
Lou Andreas-Salome
#38. It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
Gilda Radner
#39. My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.
Rick Perlstein
#40. In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.
Esther Hicks
#42. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested ...
Nelson Mandela
#44. When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
John F. Kennedy
#45. We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.
Bill Frist
#46. 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.
Zig Ziglar
#47. Be optimistic and don't ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially
Sunday Adelaja
#48. I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.
Ana Monnar
#49. Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.
Auliq Ice
#51. I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.
Gwenda Bond
#52. I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques ... noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism ... and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
Margaret Thatcher
#53. Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
Roy Bennett
#54. Perhaps it only applies in the States, where emotional optimism is a constitutional duty
Julian Barnes
#55. If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
John Maynard Keynes
#56. To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life; but a hopeful view for the present moment
Quetzal
#57. Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#58. Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch in stitches.
Angelica Hopes
#59. If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.
Karen Quan
#60. Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.
Debasish Mridha
#61. George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
Mark McKinnon
#62. Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#63. I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!
Terry Jones
#64. If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
Albert Camus
#65. optimism. Lean, fit, happy, optimistic, energetic, brimming with vim and vigor: these
Chris Crowley
#66. To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
Criss Jami
#67. Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Christian D. Larson
#68. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#69. Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.
Patrick Mendis
#70. The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.
Amit Kalantri
#71. Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
#72. I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?
Guy Pearce
#74. Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett
Roy Bennett
#75. We each appear only one time in history. Whatever occurs in our life will never occur again. Our life is significant and worthy of living if we are brave, love fearlessly, and remain optimistic regardless of our earthly hardships.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
#77. There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
David Rakoff
#78. Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.
Daniel Willey
#79. Whatever the clouds plan to do; I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out
Munia Khan
#80. I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
Jenny Han
#81. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.
Christian D. Larson
#82. Beneath the damage she can still find moments of wonder, hints of joy. Would she even say she is optimistic? It isn't the shiny optimism that lifts Samuel, but it's a hard-won kind, born from the depths. A choice. It is enough.
Rae Meadows
#83. But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
John Hench
#85. My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Ellen Willis
#86. Make your optimism come true!
Disha
#87. The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective.
Tim Fargo
#88. Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective.
Thea Kristine May
#89. The predominant quality of successful people is optimism ... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
#90. If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.
Markus Zusak
#91. Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future.
John Gokongwei
#92. I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.
Narendra Modi
#93. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.
Roy Bennett
#94. Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
Jonathan Harnisch
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