Optimism Quotes

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

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

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Optimism is cowardice.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

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."

Find optimism in the inevitable

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.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

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!

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

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.

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

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.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism