Optimism Quotes And Sayings

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“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.”
– Rhonda Byrne

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”
– Richard Bach

“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.”
– Robert Brault

“An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s the bluebird of happiness.”
– Robert Brault

“How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?”
– Robert Brault

“It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.”
– Robert Brault

“It’s still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days – you just have to be a little more cockeyed.”
– Robert Brault

“Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.”
– Robert Brault

“The realist sees reality as concrete.  The optimist sees reality as clay.”
– Robert Brault

“After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn’t a pessimist understand? ”
– Robert Brault

“Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Optimists don’t internalize pain or criticism. They take it for what it is worth and carry on.”
– Robert M. Sherfield

“Optimists find joy in small things. They enjoy sunsets, a good conversation with a close friend; and they enjoy life in general. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy.”
– Robert M. Sherfield

“How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?”
– Robert Mallett, Apostilles

“Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.”
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what’s the point of even thinking about it?”
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Positive things happen to positive people.”
– Sarah Beeny

“The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.”
– Seneca

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
– Sir Winston Churchill

“Although optimism is the result of an illusion, it is a desirable distortion of reality.”
– Susan C. Vaughan

“Optimism depends on seeing the self as full of the emotional stuff it takes to rise to challenges and weather life’s storms. Optimists believe that they are robust, and this perspective in turn allows them to choose to see the glass as half full rather than half empty. How well and smoothly our emotional regulation works will determine how much of our daily lives we spend in this optimistic, comfortable state. The more time we spend in this state, the more we will look like an optimist. But appearing optimistic merely reflects the aggregate, the sum of those little oscillating moments of optimism and pessimism over time, not some stable, enduring, unshakable trait. And that’s good news, because it means that even small shifts in our capacity for self-regulation can lead to large differences in how much of our day we spend in a comfortable, peaceful emotional state.”
– Susan C. Vaughan

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
– Susan J. Bissonette

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Faith and optimism are contagious.”
– Thom S. Rainer

“I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.”
– Thomas Hood

“Celebrate what you want to see more of!”
– Thomas J. Peters

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