Optimistic Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Make every misadventure an adventure.”
– Alana Siegel

“Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.”
– Alisa Steinberg

“The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.”
– Alison Croggon

“Pessimistic” is a word for “realistic” that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”
– Claire

“Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.”
– Robert Masello

“Beyond each impenetrable expanse of thundercloud obscurity reigns a boundless canopy of brilliant sapphire blue.
– Cara Fox

“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.”
– Wallace Stegner

“What’s wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ’s sake, I told myself, relax, you’re fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.”

– Jennifer Belle

“The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.”
– Orson F. Whitney

“In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant “now,” even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.”
– Orhan Pamuk

“Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.”
– Criss Jami

” Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many. Not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
– Charles Dickens

” I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

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

” In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein

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

” The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ”
– William James

” We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
– Gautama Buddha

” Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ”
– Helen Keller

” The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”
– Peter Ustinov

” My sun sets to rise again.”
– Robert Browning

” I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. ”
– Louisa May Alcott

” What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. ”
– Oscar Wilde

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
– Kahlil Gibran

” Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ”
– Oscar Wilde

” Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
– Martin Luther

” All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
– Orison Swett Marden

” They can because they think they can.”
– Virgil

“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie

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