Optimism Quotes
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.
If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.