Optimism Quotes

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.

Optimism is true moral courage.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Optimism is the true moral courage

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.

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

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

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

Optimism is cowardice.

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

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

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.

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.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation.

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.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

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.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

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

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

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

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.