Optimism Quotes

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.