Optimism Quotes

Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes

Mark Twain

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Antonio Gramsci

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

C.S. Lewis

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Jane Austen

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

Cassandra Clare

My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

Gilda Radner

I 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

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Margery Allingham

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Francis H. Bradley

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Reginald B. Mansell

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

B. C. Forbes

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran