Optimistic Quotes

"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity." Sir Winston Churchill

"Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us." Muhammad Yunus

"The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year." Samuel Johnson

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

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. " Lucille Ball

"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." Chinese Proverb

"To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in, and to lend a hand." Edward Everett Hale

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." Maria Robinson

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." Vince Lombardi

"I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude." Judith M. Knowlton

"Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for." Silken Laumann

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." Colin Powell

"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure." Elbert Hubbard

"Look at the sunny side of everything." Christian D. Larsen

"In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." Daniel L. Reardon

"If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation." Helen Keller

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." William James

"Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud, and one the stars.” Frederick Langbridge

"I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times." Jeffrey Immelt

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." Zig Ziglar

"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be." Harvey Mackay

"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead." Robert Brault

"A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them." Leonard L. Levinson

"The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision." William Arthur Ward

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." W. Clement Stone

"Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ...nothing is impossible!" Norman Vincent Peale

"An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life." Jim Rohn

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." Helen Keller

"Positive things happen to positive people." Sarah Beeny

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome." William James

"Optimism makes a life happier and meaningful." M.K. Soni

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind." Albert Schweitzer

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." Jimmy Dean

"I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts." Alice Potter

"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!" Oscar Wilde

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present."
Rudy Giuliani

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." Muhammed Ali

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." Antonio Gramsci

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
Colleen Wilcox

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." Benjamin Franklin

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

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; they pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose." Kahlil Gibran

"Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences." Louise Hay

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." Winston Churchill

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller

"Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness." Mark Twain

"Hope gives us a feeling of hopefulness, of optimism, of anticipation." Hope Quotes