Optimistic Quotes

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl-HIND !

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

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

It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says.' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas.! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.

An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready!

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

My sun sets to rise again.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

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

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Work at being a humble person.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

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

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Pessimism never won any battle.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.