Optimism In Life Quotes:

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Encouraging, Faith, Dark, Darkness To Light, Spiritual Faith

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Encouragement, Best Success, Count Your Blessings

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Attitude, Insperational, Positive Thoughts, Keep A Positive Attitude

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Optimistic, Average, Long, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

- Norman Cousins

source: "Human Options". Book by Norman Cousins, 1981.

topic: Positive, Optimistic, Optimism, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Believe, Optimism, Ends, Optimism In Life

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

- Christian D. Larson

topic: Inspirational, Enthusiastic, Improving Yourself, Success Of Others, Optimism In Life

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual, Oblivious, Optimism And Pessimism

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Recovery

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Attitude, My Attitude, Great Attitude

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Heart, Optimistic, Optimism, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

- William James

source: "The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature".

topic: Uplifting, Optimistic, Positive Thinking, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

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

topic: Courage, Peace, Moving, Optimism And Hope, Optimism In Life

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Positive, Attitude, Importunate, Inspirational Attitude

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Life, Beauty, Running, Stay Optimistic, Life Appreciation

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

topic: Positive, Encouraging, Dark, Optimism In Life, Positive Attitude In Life

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

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

- Christian D. Larson

topic: Faith, Strong, Mistake, Improving Yourself, Sunny Side

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.

- Leonard Louis Levinson

topic: Attitude, Dark, Clouds, Dark Side, Optimism And Pessimism

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

- Willie Nelson

source: FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

topic: Life, Positive, Anger, Inspirational Positive Attitude, Mind Thinking

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

- Walt Disney

topic: Life, Graduation, Business, Stay Optimistic, Pathos

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

- John Heywood

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Many Hands, Adverse

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

topic: Motivational, Positive, Gratitude, Great Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

- Larry Elder

source: Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.57, Macmillan

topic: Optimism, Mind, Behavior, Optimism In Life

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

- Mary Lou Retton

source: Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

topic: Positive, Optimism, People, Just Be Happy, You Make Me Happy

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

- William DeWitt Hyde

topic: Opportunity, Optimism, Growth, Optimism In Life, Optimists And Pessimists

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Graduation, Shoot For The Moon, Individual Differences

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

- Irv Kupcinet

topic: Thanksgiving Day, Optimist, Persons, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Inspirational, Strong, Mistake, Improving Yourself, Success Of Others

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

- Edward Dahlberg

topic: Mistake, Optimistic, Decision, Stay Optimistic, Walt

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Hope, Inspiration, Optimistic, Optimism And Hope, Optimism In Life

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Positive, Happiness, Optimistic, Keep Busy, Life Learning

We live in the best of all possible worlds

- Gottfried Leibniz

topic: Philosophical, World, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life, Optimistic Life

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Optimistic, Recovery, Inspirational Bullying, Les Mis

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Positive, Attitude, Optimistic, Mission And Vision, Optimism In Life

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

- James Branch Cabell

source: The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

topic: Labels, World, Littles, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

- Daniel Handler

topic: Voice, Optimism, Hopeful, Left Handed, Optimism In Life

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

- George Jean Nathan

topic: Believe, Literature, Way, Optimism In Life

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

- Rene Descartes

topic: Running, Attitude, Optimistic, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

- Charles A. Beard

source: "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Stars, Inspirational Adversity, Moon And Stars

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong, Softball Team, Good Thoughts

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

- Mark Twain

topic: Optimism, Sometimes, Pessimist, Optimism In Life

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

- Joan Rivers

source: "11 Things Joan Rivers Taught Us About Life" by Erin Weinger, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.

topic: Dark, Optimism, Matter, Optimism In Life, Positive Attitude In Life

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Giving, Recognition, Defeat, Concentrating, Motivational Career

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

source: Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.93, Courier Corporation

topic: Spring, Heart, Sea, Optimism In Life, Firm Beliefs