Quotes About Optimism

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Humor heals the heckler.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

False hope is better than no hope at all.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.