Optimist Quotes - Page 4

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.