Optimism Quotes

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

Optimism is evidence-based.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

As for health, consider yourself well.

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health.

Optimism is necessary even if you don't instinctively feel it.

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.