Optimism Quotes

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

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

Virginia Woolf

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Anne Perry

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

P. J. O'Rourke

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Milan Kundera

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

Frank Dane

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Christian D. Larsen

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Ring Lardner

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Albert Camus

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas Murray Butler

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Earl Weaver

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

Peter McWilliams

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

Voltaire

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Oscar Wilde