Optimism Quotes

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Optimism is true moral courage.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Optimism is the true moral courage

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

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

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

Optimism is cowardice.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.