Optimism Quotes And Sayings

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“Of course I look at the glass half full.  The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.”
– Drew Deyoung

“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
– Elbert Hubbard

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

“I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.”
– F. T. Marinetti

“Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.”
– Felix Dennis

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
– George F. Will

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
– George Sheehan

“Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses — or with a new set of ideological filters.”
– George Weigel

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
– Gil Stern

“Optimism, no matter how false it may seem, is necessary for species survival at a time when the ozone layer is disintegrating, mass extinctions are rampant, wars are as plentiful as ever, toxins pervade every meal and every breath, and nuclear power plants function near populated areas with human error as likely there as anywhere else.”
– Gloria Garfunkel

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ”
– Harry Truman

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
– Havelock Ellis

“Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.”
– Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
– Helen Keller

“My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.”
– Helen Keller

“Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.”
– Helen Keller

“The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.”
– Helen Keller

“An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.”
– Helen Rowland

“The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.”
– Horace Fletcher

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
– James Branch Cabell

“To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.”
– James Russell Lowell

“I’m an optimist. I’ve always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.”
– Jeffrey Immelt

“I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.”
– Jim Rohn

“A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we’re willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.”
– Joan Borysenko

“It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”
– Joyce Maynard

“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy… you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
– Katherine Mansfield

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