Optimism Quotes

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers

A gentleman can live through anything.
William Faulkner

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
Humphrey Bogart

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
Stanley Kubrick

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. Cummings

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.
Simon Cowell

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.
George Martin

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Bill Hicks

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
Eddie Murphy

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
Tommy Cooper