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Quotes About Optimism

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Always, always pursue happiness.
~ Chris Gardner
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
~ Ernest Holmes
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
~ Euripides
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.
~ Miss Read
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
~ Earl Nightingale
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.
~ Emily Giffin
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
~ Stendhal
I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
~ Carl Hilty
If you want to be happy, you will be.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.
~ Esther Hicks
Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
~ Denis Waitley
Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less
~ Jodi Picoult
My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.
~ Francisco Costa
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
~ Patton Oswalt
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
~ Horace
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
~ Margaret Lindsay
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
~ Samuel Smiles
Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
~ Shawn Achor
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
~ Moliere
The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.
~ Sri Chinmoy
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
~ E. W. Howe