Optimism Quotes

As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

Stephen Vizinczey

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness

Mark Twain

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,with its hopes and invitations,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Ambrose Bierce

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Alice Potter

To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.

Don Piatt

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Jonathan Swift

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.

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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

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Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

Kahlil Gibran

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

Leo Tolstoy

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Albert Einstein

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

George Jean Nathan

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg