Quotes About Optimism

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requirement.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

Look not thou down but up!

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,And baffled, get up and begin again.

The year's at the springAnd day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hillside's dew-pearled;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn:God's in his heaven—All's right with the world.

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

My sun sets to rise again.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss;If there is none, he made the best of this.

Hope Springs Exulting on Triumphant Wing.

What makes the hero truly great is never, never to despair.

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment Though fickle Fortune has deceived me, She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, Yet I bear a heart shall support me still. I'll act with prudence as far 's I'm able, But if success I must never find, Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome, I'll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

Leave martyrdom alone: The pendulum will swing back your way eventually, and you should stay alive to see it.

So I'd gotten rid of that negativity and I'd show, "Well, here's something done right. Here's the mistake, but here's how to fix the mistake.