Optimism Quotes

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

Mark Twain

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

George Eliot

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn

Lucille Ball

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

Ron Jaworski

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Sir John A. Macdonald