Best Optimism Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

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

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

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.

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!

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it’s slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character’s sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That’s a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it’s true.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there’s possibility. I see children coming into the world as an expression of this. Sometimes, not always – it can just be somebody that wasn’t on the birth control pill or didn’t have access to abortion. But I usually see a wanted child as a sign of optimism, and I like that.

But before looking to the future, let’s glance back at the road we’ve traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

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.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

That’s why our comics are important: they’re pointing things out and laughing at the same time. There have been horrible, horrible times in history. They’re mostly horrible times. But not to laugh? Not to find humor in something like dark optimism/bright pessimism – I think that’s sad, frankly.

There is a place in men’s lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

Product of optimism and knowledge is a constant.

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.

I have optimism and am incredibly hopeful for the future. I often say to friends, it’s always darkest before the dawn, and lets be frank there’s a lot of darkness out there right now, at least at a macro level. But once you drill down through that I think there’s so much light, or at least the chance for it to erupt and illuminate the dark.

I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities.

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood’s long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.