Optimism Quotes

I like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruin...

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laught...

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...

If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the...

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that tak...

It's strange but as I grow older, I find myself developing more optimism. I keep inching toward the ...

An optimist is a braver cynic.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from th...

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an opti...

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist....

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio...

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

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

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that some...

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of...

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that th...

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs...

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...

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

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees ...

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at...

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

Was he a beast if music could move him so?

My thoughts on the descent of our moral prejudices – for that is what this polemic is about – were f...

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improva...

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have fel...

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women f...

No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.

I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest....

Things are always better in the morning.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

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

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

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest...

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influenc...

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and ...

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life whic...

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose st...

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human histor...

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain...

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of yo...

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

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

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a ...

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And d...

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any...

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the l...

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy st...

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer showe...

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves t...

I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I fel...

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, ...

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whils...

We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to ...

Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?"...

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deception...

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn ...

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

You gotta be optimistic to be single. Stupid! You have to be stupid. That's what optimistic means, y...

You gotta be optimistic to be single. Stupid! You have to be stupid. That's what optimistic means, y...

You gotta be optimistic to be single. Stupid! You have to be stupid. That's what optimistic means, y...

You gotta be optimistic to be single. Stupid! You have to be stupid. That's what optimistic means, y...

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy an...

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a c...

Every human being should regard himself as if he were exactly balanced between innocence and guilt. ...