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

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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

Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.

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.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

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

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

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

I’m a generally optimistic person.

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

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

Perhaps I’m being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.