Quotes About Optimism

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Live with the objective of being happy.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Happiness is not being afraid.

Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.