Optimistic Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of optimistic quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Winston Churchill

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

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
– Victor Hugo

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
– Cassandra Clare

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
– Winston Churchill

“The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down”
– Charles Chaplin

“Look on the bright side,” said Simon, “If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I’m not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”
– Cassandra Clare

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
– Nelson Mandela

“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
– Helen Keller

“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes’.”
– Stephen Colbert

“I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, “I have wonderful news!” And I was like, “I don’t really want to hear wonderful news right now,” and Gus said, “This is wonderful news you want to hear,” and I asked him, “Fine, what is it?” and he said, “You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!”
– John Greene

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
– Albert Einstein

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
– Neal Shusterman

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
– Virginia Woolf

“…there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”
– Stephen King

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
– Noam Chomsky

“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
– Thomas L. Friedman

“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”
– Henry Rollins

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

– Lucille Ball

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
– Arundhati Roy

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
– Philip K. Dick

“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”
– Philip K. Dick

“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)”
– Jeffery R. Holland

“Optimism,” said Cacambo, “What is that?” “Alas!” replied Candide, “It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
– Voltaire

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