Optimism Quotes
Most popular optimism quotes
Nobody can go off to battle unless he is fully convinced of victory beforehand. If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Two men look through the same bars; One sees the mud, and the other the stars.
The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
A storm outdoors is no reason for gloom in the house.
Stay in college, get the knowledge, stay there until you are through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something of you!
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
I will say this about being an optimist—even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
Things will probably come out all right, but sometimes it takes strong nerves just to watch.
The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar.
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
Cheerfulness, like spring, opens all the blossoms of the inward man.
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
Optimism is a cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser—in case you thought optimism was dead.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all—he's walking on them.
It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever.
Believe that things will work out somehow, follow your intuition and curiosity, and trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Trust that dots will somehow connect.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
Eradicate the optimist who takes the easy view that human values will persist no matter what we do. Annihilate the pessimist whose ineffectual cry is that the goal's already missed however hard we try.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Although optimism is the result of an illusion, it is a desirable distortion of reality.
Optimism is good for overcoming obstacles that are part of daily life, but over-optimism can blind us to adversities that need addressing.
Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.
The essence of optimism is not its view of the present, but the fact that it is the inspiration of life and hope when others give in; it enables a man to hold his head high when everything seems to be going wrong; it gives him strength to sustain reverses and yet to claim the future for himself instead of abandoning it to his opponent.
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
An optimist is a person who smells the roses without worrying about the thorns.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
How happy is the Optimist To whom life shows its sunny side His horse may lose, his ship may list, But he always sees the funny side.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Optimist: person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns, the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Our motto is still alive and to the point: Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
An optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
'Twixt optimist and pessimist The difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut, The pessimist, the hole.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
