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Quotes About Optimism

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.
~ Art Buchwald
Live the rest of your life in possibility
~ Benjamin Zander
Optimists are happier in life for a reason.
~ Brendon Burchard
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
~ Carl Jung
Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
~ Karl A. Menninger
I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.
~ Kathryn Erskine
Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Being upbeat is the key to life.
~ David Frost
Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.
~ Michael Jordan
A writer must say yes to life.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
~ Phillips Brooks
See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.
~ Robert Collier
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
~ Ruth Westheimer
Life is painful, suffering is optional.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
~ Thomas More
When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.
~ W. Clement Stone
There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.
~ Jack Nicholson
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
~ Jimmy Carter
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.
~ Lilly Pulitzer