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

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

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Do not think of to-day’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

As I look forward, I’m very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

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.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world–in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind–can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.