Optimism Quotes

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Optimism is a competitive advantage.

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?

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

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

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

Finish every day and be done with it.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Faith and optimism come from love.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

There is a good side to every situation.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.