Optimism Quotes

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

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.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

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

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

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

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.