Quotes About Optimism

Remember: Today's impossibilities are tomorrow's miracles.

Sanguineness is not a strategy.

The impossible does not describe itself as impossible.

It's always darkest before the dawn

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

No news is good news

The sharper the storm, the sooner it's over.

Be cheerful while you are alive.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

Start your day with open arms and the biggest smile. Your life will love you and surprise you with all the happiness, success and abundance in this universe.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

I now know that if you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better.

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

Joy is the anticipation of joy.

I can dig out the old chestnut from George Santayana, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," but it serves no purpose. It's a hopelessly optimistic quote. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups).