Top 100 Quotes About Optimism
#1. Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. 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
#4. Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
J. Oswald Sanders
#5. 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
#6. If optimism is the highest form of courage
as I am beginning to believe it is
then these students are all heroes.
Paula Huntley
#9. For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
Stewart Stafford
#10. There always had to be a survivor. Maybe this simply spoke to the optimism of the men writing those screenplays; even with an uncomfortable sci fi plot they had to subconsciously comfort themselves by thinking that at least a hundred people would survive.
Someone has to survive
Chris Dietzel
#11. You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
Ricky Mathieson
#12. Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
David Myers
#13. 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
#14. How can you be so nice to me and how can you forgive me when I've been such a jerk?"
Maddy appears to think for a moment. "When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don't keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.
Stephen Reid Andrews
#15. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.
David Jeremiah
#16. Pessimism has its own secret
Share of optimism in it too.
Angela Suba
#17. Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,
Eleanor H. Porter
#18. When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.
John Yokoyama
#19. 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
#20. The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.
Jon Snow
#21. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.
Michael Chabon
#22. Call it eternal optimism or romantic rebellion, but one of these days karma would stop flipping her the bird and pay it forward.
Marina Adair
#23. New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.
Jonathan Mahler
#24. It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism I had brought with me.
Hermann Hesse
#25. Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism
Dean Cavanagh
#28. 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
#31. Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.
Carol Vorvain
#32. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
#34. Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Elbert Hubbard
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.
Wes Fesler
#39. 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
#40. Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#41. There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!
Adam Scythe
#42. Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.
Jalen Rose
#43. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#44. Things are always better in the morning.
Harper Lee
#45. Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.
Abeba Habtu
#46. 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.
#47. I wish I possessed your particular brand of optimism," Rahim grumbled.
"And what brand would that be?"
"Idiotic.
Renee Ahdieh
#48. Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.
Oscar Wilde
#49. 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
#50. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
Rosa Parks
#51. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Christina Greer
#52. 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
#53. To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
Stephen L. Carter
#54. Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
Rodolfo Costa
#55. Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.
Henry Kissinger
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Mason Cooley
#59. Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
Max Beerbohm
#60. Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism
' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.
Robert Ellsberg
#61. Don't stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!
Jen Selinsky
#62. 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
#63. You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?
Noah Hawley
#64. The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.
Pearl S. Buck
#65. 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
#66. The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.
Michael J. Fox
#67. They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
Steven Tyler
#68. The general tendency to overestimate the probability of conjunctive events leads to unwarranted optimism in the evaluation of the likelihood that a plan will succeed or that a project will be completed on time.
Daniel Kahneman
#69. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James
#70. Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.
Dov Davidoff
#72. The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.
Philip Littell
#73. Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice.
James Lee Burke
#74. War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.
Joseph Sobran
#75. An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
Heinz Ruhmann
#77. Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.
Angelica Hopes
#78. 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
#80. For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
Ron Suskind
#81. 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
#82. The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.
Edith Hamilton
#85. There are two word in my world first love the strongest and second chance quotes.
Rohit Dhariwal
#86. 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
#87. One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Tony Kushner
#88. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
Virgil
#89. I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.
Elizabeth Taylor
#90. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
Tony Dovale
#91. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
#92. In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.
Rick Perlstein
#94. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#95. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
Carl Sandburg
#96. Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
#97. To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
Eleanor Perenyi
#99. I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
Eskinder Nega
#100. There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.
Gloria Estefan
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