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Quotes About Optimism

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
~ Donald Trump
Embrace life and grow beyond your fondest dreams. Leave your fears behind and live every moment with happiness.
~ Unknown
Your career and life will change for the better when you learn to surround yourself with positive people and keep the negative ones away.
~ Unknown
What is life? What does life mean to you? It means live it to the fullest and stay strong all the way through it.
~ Unknown
Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world
~ Robertson Davies
An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
~ Unknown
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~ William Somerset Maugham
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
~ Wilma Mankiller
'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died
~ John Gay
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.
~ Ann Landers
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
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~ Annette Funicello
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
~ Vince Lombardi
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
~ L Ron Hubbard
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
~ Irving Berlin
If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
~ Unknown
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
~ Unknown
Where there's life, there's hope.
~ Terence
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
~ Kahlil Gibran
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
~ Douglas Adams
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
~ Lao Tzu
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire