Optimism Quotes

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.

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

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

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

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.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.