Optimism Quotes
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
- Muhammad Yunus
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte
Comedy is acting out optimism.
- Robin Williams
Positive things happen to positive people.
- Sarah Beeny
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde
Optimism is the opium of the people.
- Milan Kundera
An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
- Don Marquis
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
- William Faulkner
Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
- Ambrose Bierce
You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
- Ross Perot
If you’re brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.
- Uri Geller
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
- Mark Twain
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
- Rudy Giuliani
Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
- Walter Winchell
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
- Mary Kay Ash
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
- John F. Kennedy
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
- Walter Chrysler
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin Delano
An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.
- Kin Hubbard
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
- Mark Twain
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray brown glasses.
- Charles Eliot
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
- Anonymous
Be an optimist at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
- Anonymous
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
- Peace Pilgrim
Self praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
- John Madden
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
- Ambrose Bierce
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
- Muhammed Ali
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
- Joan Blades
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
- Francis P. Yockey
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
- Dr. Jonas Salk
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else.
- Earl Weaver
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
- Bo Bennett
I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
- Patricia Ireland
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
- Mark Victor Hansen
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half inch eraser in case you thought optimism was dead.
- Robert Brault
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
- Calvin Coolidge
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
- George Bernard Shaw


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